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Speaker A

A public artwork by Theatre Replacement and Vanessa Kwan, Speaker A uses sound as a medium for storytelling…

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Do you mind if I sit here?

Theatre Replacement has kept a small studio space in Vancouver’s Russian Hall since 2011. Some years ago…

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URBAN RURAL CONNECTIONS

URBAN RURAL CONNECTIONS was a year-long New Conversations project that aimed to generate creative…

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Ephemera: An Archiving Party

The scholar Peggy Phelan once claimed that the ontology of live performance is its disappearance. It is here for…

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Little Volcano

Half concert, half storytelling event, Little Volcano is a new work of autobiography, exploring Vancouver musician…

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Footnote Number 12

Let’s say, just for now, that 2006 was the last unchallenged moment of western power — this white spectre’s…

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Town Criers

In a fixed location, writers type out observations of the world unfolding around them. In another part of the same city…

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Three Lectures on the North

A playful look into the form of the public lecture, Theatre Replacement and Rough House commissioned…

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Winners and Losers

Winners and Losers is a staged conversation that embraces the ruthless logic of capitalism, and tests its impact…

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Kate Bowie

In 1981, Kate Bush and David Bowie rented a secluded mansion in a remote part of England to make an album together…

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The Sensationalists

Company 605 and Theatre Replacement team up to bring you a new experimental dance creation. In this cross-disciplinary…

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WeeTube

Part performance, part parlour game, WeeTube uses the publicly posted comments found under popular YouTube Videos as performance text…

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100% Vancouver

One by one, 100 people enter the stage. These are not trained actors. These are everyday Vancouverites…

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Dress me up in your love

Revealing, sexy and sometimes startling, Theatre Replacement once again delves into the world of biographical examination…

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That Night Follows Day

You feed us. You dress us. You sing to us. You make promises that you think we won’t remember. You explain…

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TRAIN

A man waits in a crowded Tokyo train station for the love of his life to arrive. At the same station, a woman walks…

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HIVE

HIVE was a series of performance events orchestrated by the Progress Lab consortium of companies, an ad hoc…

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Farther and Farther On

A quiet theatre piece that examines the disintegration of a relationship through text, sound and movement…

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