Notice Board

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event is cancelled.  We apologize for any inconvenience this causes.

--

John Murrell
Crossing Boundaries Speaker Series
Thursday, October 29, 2015
7 pm, Dr. Foster James Penny Building
PB210, 324 – 5 Street South
FREE Admission, Everyone welcome
Q+A and Reception to follow

MIXING IT UP: WHEN ARTISTS COLLIDE
Performance history shows us that the greatest work is often produced, not from happy agreement between authors, actors, directors, visual artists, musicians, choreographers, and so forth – but, rather, when these artists disagree and clash with one another.  Has the once-dominant written word now become the weakest of all these vital, divergent voices?   If so, what difference does it make to the future of theatre?

We hope you join us for this engaging lecture.  University of Lethbridge Drama student Maddie Taylor-Gregg also graces the stage and performs a monologue from Murrell’s Waiting for the Parade. 

John Murrell is among Canada’s most respected and most frequently produced playwrights, whose plays – including Waiting for the Parade, Memoir, Farther West, Democracy, and Taking Shakespeare – have been translated into 15 languages and performed in more than 30 countries.  He is also an opera librettist, a translator of theatre, and an arts activist.  

Murrell is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a member of the Alberta Order of Excellence, and a recipient of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.

For more information on this dynamic artist, visit the Canadian theatre website.