Photo of James Long and Marcus Youssef by Simon Hayter

Co-produced with Neworld Theatre and in association with Crow's Theatre (Toronto)

Winners and Losers is a staged conversation that embraces the ruthless logic of capitalism, and tests its impact on our closest personal relationships as well as our most intimate experiences of self.

Theatre artists and long-time friends Marcus Youssef and James Long sit at a table and play a game they made up, called Winners and Losers. In it, they name people, places or things — Tom Cruise, microwave ovens, their fathers, rainforests, druids, etc. — and debate whether these things are winners or losers. As each seeks to defeat the other, the debate becomes highly personal, as they dissect each other's individual, familial and class histories. And because one of these men is the product of economic privilege, and the other not, the competition very quickly begins to cost.

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Co-produced by The Chop Theatre

Talks and exchanges with some of Canadian theatre's finest. Four times throughout the season.

NEXT UP:

SHOPTALK — DESKTOP

Dissecting the role of the archive in our everyday lives.

JUNE 7th, 2013

More deets soon!

All SHOPTALKS are at:
THE SKINNY @ The Russian Hall
600 Campbell Ave
VANCOUVER
5-7pm (cinq à sept)

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Does creativity feed on limits? Following three sold-out iterations of HIVE, Vancouver's Progress Lab network of indie theatre-makers comes together to test that theory.

Inspired in part by The Five Obstructions by Jorgen Leth and Lars Von Trier, the core artists of each participating company will submit, a few at a time and under a cold spotlight, to a list of obstructions delivered by a shadowy emcee. The companies will then be commanded to create their next production around those limitations. The obstructions for each company have been developed in secret by their peers — a custom-designed set of obstacles that will prompt each artist to adapt to a new approach to making theatre. Form, place, style, theme, design, period, story — Obstructions spills out the artist's bag of tricks and kicks them out of reach.

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