Thought Residencies

Thought Residencies

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Thought Residencies episodes

  • Michael Wheeler - Thought #4 - Will the real Slim Wheeler please speak up

    Many aspects of a personality combine to create a single self. I've been contemplating this in relation to basketball-playing Mike, who is loud, often aggressive and mm, rehearsal director Mike who is a listener, collaborative and not ever yelling at anyone that I can recall. Ah and they both feel like me, and I like both those people, but which one is the real me? I think the both are.

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  • Michael Wheeler - Thought #3 - Proximity

    This is Michael Wheeler and this is Thought #3.

    My students at Queen's University are beginning a process of creating scenes through CdnStudio. They have the benefit of actually rehearsing those scenes in person with each other first, before they start creating across distance.

    I'm curious to see how this changes the creative process in comparison to something like our production of The Revolutions which used the technology to create a work where artists from a cross the country collaborated with each other without ever being in the same space.

    Seems like being able to meet each other in the same space will change things.

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  • Michael Wheeler - Thought #2 - Progress

    This Michael Wheeler and this is Thought #2.

    I've been thinking today about Progress Lab in Vancouver and how it is home to both Marcus Youssef, who is the most recent winner of the Siminovitch Prize and also The Electric Company and Kim Collier, also a winner of The Siminovitch Prize.

    And how that space was created by a bunch of artists who came together and figured out how to pool their resources to give them the infrastructure they needed to explore their craft, before anyone had won any Siminovitch Prizes. And ah, it just reminds me that working together you can achieve a lot of things.

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  • Michael Wheeler - Thought #1 - Paid Content

    This is Michael Wheeler and this is Thought #1.

    I've been thinking a lot about branded content lately, and how newspapers and magazines now offer theatres the opportunity to purchase the coverage they used to receive for free from journalists and their publications.

    And that the model, the business model that supports the media, is suffering is so much that now you buy what used to be, omm, news. And that that is bad for art, because then news, in the art world, is about the people, who can pay for it.

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  • Adam Lazarus - Thought #14 - This is Not the End
    Since number one I have thought about the ending. Fleetingly, but it was in there. I thought about quoting someone. I had about 6 jokes. I had an earnest observation. I had a story I'd been saving. I re-examined themes of literacy, energy, love, empathy and vulnerability. I had a list. There was a line about going from A to B. I thought it was very clever. I thought I should talk about my family, my wife, my kids, my life. I thought I should talk about my theatre and artistry. I thought I should talk about opportunity and being grateful for this one. Tonight, I think about never knowing how to end, not wanting to end, and so not ending. À la prochaine.
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  • Adam Lazarus - Thought #14 - Yes I'd like s'more
    I'm nearing the end of my east coast vacation and I find myself thinking about dictums of yore. They say everything in moderation. I say, sounds controlled and boring. I think excess gets a bad rep. Case in point, tonight over an open fire, I helped myself to 6 double marshmallow, double chocolate, perfectly roasted S'mores. I could have stopped at 2, or 3, or 4, or 5. But why would I do that? To adhere to the Gods of restraint? My face was gooey, my stomach was aching and I wanted more. I could have more so I had s'more. Tomorrow I'm going to a natural mud slide near the Bay of Fundy and yes I am going to frolic. Happy as a pig in mud. Now there's a dictum! In the quieter moments, I do wonder how my cholesterol is doing?
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  • Adam Lazarus - Thought #13 - Accountability
    We have a duty to hold our friends, neighbours and ourselves accountable for offending. Currently, I'm revisiting an old play of mine from the early 2000's. As memory serves, it had a great central character, a strong narrative and audiences loved the play. But, reading it in 2017, the show is not good. Some jokes don't land, and some jokes are blatantly Islamophobic. My intentions at the time were political. I was speaking to a mistreatment of women in the Middle East! Whatever the political intention then, today, I sound ignorant and paranoid. Who really cares about intention? Fact is, my content is bad and is grossly offensive. Accountability. And so for my part, my play should see the inside of a garbage bin and for the country's part, it is time to remove from federal buildings across Canada the name: Sir John A. MacDonald.
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  • Adam Lazarus - Thought #12 - On Cape Breton Island

    Currently, I am at the top of Cape Breton Island. I have no cell service and the closest Wi-Fi spot is 10kms away.

    Welcome back to 1995.

    I love it. I have no longing to connect. I don't care what anyone has done or said or blown up or threatened. It's been a quick adjustment.

    Removing myself from my life (out of the city, no kids, just my wife and I and nature) I once again think the following: We are tiny. We are fluid. We can change quickly. We can adapt. Sleep is a top priority. We're two third's water, we should protect it. We are made to move and climb and pull and push and jump. We are always looking to connect and share.

    No one was lying about any of it.

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About Thought Residencies

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The Thought Residencies are back! This season, hear four long-form conversations between artists about theatre, creation and community. All hosted by b Current Artistic Director and FOLDA Co-Curator, Marcel Stewart.