Summer shows featuring arts & science talent
Students, faculty and alumni are a big part of the 2016 Saskatoon summer theatre scene
Take in a play this summer in Saskatoon and you’re likely to encounter talented alumni, students and faculty of the College of Arts & Science. Here are a few of the 2016 productions with the most college connections.
2016 PotashCorp Fringe Theatre and Street Festival (July 28 – Aug. 6)
SCUM: a manifesto (Broadway Theatre)
SCUM interweaves the true story of Valerie Solanas and her encounters with pop-art legend Andy Warhol with two modern-day women navigating the trendy new world of modern feminism. SCUM satirizes what it means to be a feminist in today’s society and pokes fun at our modern conceptions of gender equality.
SCUM is created and presented entirely by students and recent graduates of the Department of Drama: S.E. Grummett, Ivan Kolosnjaji, Jessie Kraus, Meleody Mountain and Caitlin Zacharias.
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With Glowing Hearts: How Ordinary Women Worked Together to Change the World (and Did) (Victoria School Gym)
Lifted straight from sociological research at the U of S, With Glowing Hearts is the true story of how hard rock miners’ wives in 1940s Ontario stood up for better conditions for their families, and how they changed the world—and themselves—as a result.
A partnership between the Department of Drama and the Department of Sociology, the play is adapted from research by Assistant Professor Elizabeth Quinlan (sociology) into the central role played by women in Canada’s mid-20th-century labour movement. Assistant Professor Julia Jamison (drama) directs a cast made up entirely of U of S students and alumni.
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More summer shows
Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan (July 7 – Aug. 20, Meewasin Trail Main Stage)
This summer’s Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan productions of J. Caesar and A Midsummer Night’s Dream are packed with students, faculty and alumni of the Department of Drama. Read about some of the students involved: Students savour Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan experience
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Little Badger and the Fire Spirit (July 4 – 29, various parks)
A story about how the human, natural and animal worlds are intertwined, Little Badger & the Fire Spirit follows a boy on a quest to bring fire back to his people. Free performances are being held at more than 20 different parks around Saskatoon during the month of July.
This Theatre in the Park production by Sum Theatre features creative contributions from Department of Drama alumni including Robert Grier, Nathan Howe, Terri Morgan, Heather Morrison, Donovan Scheirer and Emma Thorpe.
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