Regina-based Curtain Razors is one of the troupes hat have received $50,000 from the National Arts Centre for its Grand Acts of Theatre project.What images and moments will you recall from the COVID-19 pandemic looking back decades from now?
These are large-scale, but punchy performances intended to awe in-person audiences, but also be captured in short videos that the NAC will share nationally and internationally.“My goal is that people 20 years from now say, ‘Remember the pandemic? Remember when they pushed that piano off the cliff?’” says Keiley, who is artistic director of the NAC’s English Theatre.
All 11 artistic works must take place outside and in front of real live audiences in their own communities – and be in a form that allows their essence to be captured in videos of no longer than five minutes. No artist is actually going to push a piano off a cliff – that’s just Keiley’s example of the type of short and attention-grabbing happening she hoped to provoke.