Created by Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young
Revisor | World Premiere – SOLD OUT
February 20 – 23, 2019, 8pm
Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton Street)
Running time: 90 minutes, no intermission.
Speaking of Dance Pre-show Talk at 7:15pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday night in the Vancouver Playhouse Upper Lobby. Moderator: Janet Smith (Arts Editor, Georgia Straight). Guests: Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young.
Post-show Social after the performance on Friday night in the Playhouse Salons.
From choreographer Crystal Pite and writer/director Jonathon Young, the creators of the internationally acclaimed Betroffenheit (winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production) comes Revisor, a new dance/theatre hybrid that mixes classic farce and the forces of radical change into a fizzing concoction that confounds expectations and inverts the official order.
Taking inspiration from the classical tropes of satire and subversion – apparatchik politicking, mistaken identity, trash the fourth-wall observances – eight dancers embody the recorded dialogue of some of Canada’s finest actors in a plot that reinvests theatrical devices with anarchic absurdity, and Pites’s wildly inventive choreography.
As story and dance cascade into a final conflagration of human failing and moral bankruptcy, Revisor uses the mutable language of conflict and comedy to examine the relationship between people and politics, with eviscerating wit and bold physicality.
Co-produced by Sadler’s Wells (London, UK), Theatre de la Ville – Paris/La Villette – Paris (Paris, France), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Banff, Canada), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (North Carolina, US), The CanDance Network Creation Fund, Dance Victoria (Victoria, Canada), Canadian Stage (Toronto, Canada), National Arts Centre (Ottawa, Canada), DanceHouse with support from Anndraya Luui (Vancouver, Canada), Dance Victoria (Victoria, Canada), Danse Danse (Montreal, Canada) and Seattle Theatre Group (Seattle, US).
This is one of the 200 exceptional projects funded through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter Program. With this $35M investment, the Council supports the creation and sharing of the arts in communities across Canada.
Developed with support from the National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund.
