We are born in terror and trembling. In the face of our terror, before the uncontrollable chaos of the universe, we label as much as we can with language in the hope that once we have named something we need no longer fear it. This labeling enables us to feel safer but also kills the mystery in what has been labeled, removing the life and danger from what has been defined. The artist’s responsibility is to bring the potential, the mystery and terror, the trembling, back.
Anne Bogart, A Director Prepares
Making Face Theatre is dedicated to producing high-calibre and thought-provoking theatre, through a process of creative collaboration and critical investigation. Our objective is to create theatre that wears expressions fully, and for those expressions to be real. We want to make theatre that is honest and funny, physical and poetic. We believe that theatre should be visceral and dreamlike…
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Randy Read and Natasha Allan
in Making Face Theatre's Miss Marker
Making Face Theatre's inaugural production, Miss Marker, at the SummerWorks Theatre Festival. An original one-act co-written by Caitlin Brubacher and Catherine Montgomery about our human need for identity and about how that need can inhibit connection.
Missed the show? Check out the program's director's note for some related thoughts.
Listen! That Radio interviews Caitlin Brubacher and Natasha Allan.
Download the interview (mp3)
