Bouche Theatre Collective
In association with Presentation House Theatre
NEW CONSTELLATIONS & PERSPECTIVES
PHT Studio Series
Exploring new ways of making theatre from process to product
Saturday May 13, 2023 | 2PM
INTERNATIONAL CREATION & EXCHANGE
With Winfried Wrede (flausen +, Germany) & Jack Paterson (Bouche Theatre Collective, Vancouver)
Where “your way” is only one of many. Explore new creation paths from leading Germany incubator flausen+ to cross cultural creation and international exchange practice.
TICKETS: Pay What you Can
LOCATION: Anne MacDonald Studio, Presentation House Theatre,
333 Chesterfield Avenue, North Vancouver, BC V7M 3G9
(www.phtheatre.org)
ACCESS: Wheelchair accessible
Please include any access needs in the signup sheet
LIMTED SEATING:
To ensure a seat, please register here
Meet our Speakers
Winfried Wrede (he, him)
Winfried Wrede is the founding artistic director of the research and production theatre wrede+ in Oldenburg, Germany. His award-winning work has toured Asia, the Americas and Europe. He has served as artistic adviser for the European Union and is a regular special guest at the international directors’ convention of Assitej. In Vancouver, he is best known for his award winning collaboration with Presentation House Theatre “Cat Killer”.
In 2010, he founded the flausen+, a nationwide alliance of 31 companies connecting independent artists with small and medium-sized friei theaters throughout Germany. Committed to developing better ways of working through process and artist-based models, flausen + empowers process-based exploration, and fosters high-risk ideas, innovation, and new voices. To date, flausen+ has facilitated over 50 residencies and over 200 artists. Projects and ensembles developed through Flausen+ residency have gone on to high acclaim.
“We would never have dared to tackle such a risky theme or aesthetic form without flausen+.”
– pulk fiktion (recipient of the prestigious George Tabori Award)
Moderated by Jack Paterson (he, him)
Jack is an award-winning devisor, director, dramaturg, translator and creative producer whose work and practice has taken him across Canada, UK, EU and around the world. Project has ranged from multinational devising creations, cross-sensory, multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural and multi-lingual projects to new works, translations & texts, contemporary approaches to classical theatre. With Global Hive Labs., an international collective of artists and organisations, Jack pioneered “Active Access Design”, the integration of access into the generative process of devised creation. He is a recipient of “The Ray Michal Award”, “The Cole Foundation Award for Emerging Translators”, and “The John Moffatt & Larry Lillo Award”.
Recent projects include the Indonesia & Canada cross-cultural collaboration Wayang 4D with I. Made Sidia and Sanggar Paripurna (Bali, ID), the Active Access Design creation Palazzo del Mondo with Signdance Collective (Piacenza, IT), LA SALLE DES MACHINES: De la source à la cible with Centre des auteurs dramatique (Montreal, CAN), and the English language premiers of Haven with United Players (Vancouver, CAN) and The Ballad of George Boivin with Western Gold Theatre (Vancouver, CAN).
www.jackpatersontheatre.com
