MINE
Available for touring.
Using the computer construction game Minecraft as a kind of theatre, a group of gamer/performers between the ages of 10 and 50 enact different mother-son narratives in front of an audience of roughly the same age. As they travel through digital terrains together, live-operating tales from the Beowulf saga, Bambi and The Terminator, personal stories of the powerful bond between mothers and sons emerge and weave themselves into the performance.
MINE. Photo by Claire Haigh.
Inspired by the real-life relationship between Theatre Replacement’s Artistic Director, Maiko Yamamoto, and her 12-year-old son Hokuto and his obsession with Minecraft, MINE opens us up to expansive and strange new territories in an intergenerational performance that both interrogates and recognizes the role technology plays in our modern parent-child relationships.
Directed by Maiko Yamamoto and created with her son Hokuto MacDuff, Conor Wylie, Remy Siu and a group of 4 local gamer/performers in every location, with dramaturgy by Carmen Aguirre, costume and visual Design by Leah Weinstein, lighting design by Jeff Harrison and technical direction by Daniel O'Shea.
Commissioned by artsdepot, Cambridge Junction and Future Arts Centres. Originally co-produced by Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Theatre Replacement acknowledges the assistance of the 2018 Banff Playwrights Lab in the creation of this project — a partnership between the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity and the Canada Council for the Arts. MINE premiered at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and has toured to artsdepot in London and Cambridge Junction in Cambridge, UK, FOLDA, The Cultch and most recently to the High Performance Rodeo in January 2023.
For touring inquiries, contact katie@theatrereplacement.org
Photos by Tim Matheson, Chris Randle and Claire Haigh
Video by Cam Anderson