The agreements
A GAMIFIED SONG CYCLE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
The Agreements is a contemporary classical music project for a virtual performance space. At its centre is a song cycle being created by Debbie Patterson, a Canadian theatre writer and leading disability activist, and composer Reza Jacobs. As someone embracing the disruptions of disability, Debbie writes: “We know something about what it is to be human that everybody else doesn’t know yet.”
Treemonisha
A co-production of Moveable Beast Collective and Volcano Theatre
Combining a new libretto with Joplin’s ground-breaking music, Volcano is creating a ReBoot of an opera unlike any other. Found under a tree by an ex-slave named Monisha, Treemonisha grows into a woman who will change the course of her post Civil War community. This is Scott Joplin’s main character in his almost unknown 1911 opera, Treemonisha: the first black opera composed in North America to survive to the present day.
INUKTITUT WAITING FOR GODOT
Working with Nunavut-based Inuit artist Tatanniq Lucie Idlout and a team of translators, Volcano and Iqaluit-based 662 OVA are developing a translation and production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece Waiting for Godot in Inuktitut.
The Flying Child
“When darkness falls, a big black car drives through the streets of the city, and takes our children…”