2020-01-29 19:30 2020-02-16 21:30 60 Canada/Eastern 🎟 CNA : The Neverending Story

https://nac-cna.ca/fr/event/21571

Une production du Théâtre anglais du CNA en collaboration avec le Festival de Stratford

Une nouvelle matinée est ajoutée le 16 février !

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Théâtre Babs Asper ,1 rue Elgin,Ottawa,Canada
29 jan - 16 fév 2020
29 jan - 16 fév 2020

≈ 2 heures · Avec entracte

Dernière mise à jour: 31 janvier 2020

Ce programme est seulement disponible en anglais ›

Artistic Director’s Notes

A child chosen to fight an unvanquishable villain is a well-known theme, from David and Goliath to Harry Potter and Voldemort. While there is a kind of conventional villain in The Neverending Story, in the form of the werewolf Gmork, the real villain is The Nothing – a much more difficult villain to combat, harder to identify and see. The Nothing represents the empty places that have never been touched by imagination. In places most alive with stories, The Nothing actively and violently erases them. The Nothing doesn’t care which stories and characters disappear, and takes no pleasure in its destructiveness. It just IS, like an aimless tornado. The Nothing exists, pre-dates creation, and grows stronger when we don’t fill the dark void with story, imagination, character and light.

Our conceptual design likens the darkness of The Nothing and its light-filled opposite to the pin pricks of stars battling the black sheet of the night sky, and offers that The Nothing is the immeasurable emptiness that was before the beginning of the universe. When all the matter and antimatter met long ago, and that moment of infinite pressure made all the world’s elements burst forth – that was the ultimate act of creation, or for the religious among us, imagination. Every star is a story dreamed up, everything that reflects or emits light is a strike of creativity against The Nothing. Fantastica itself is the realm of the imagination. When our hero is faced with this world collapsing – along with all the acts of imagination, stories and characters in it – his entire universe is threatened with annihilation.

In this time of young people fiercely standing up to today’s unvanquishable threats, like the existential threat of Climate Change, the idea of a child being chosen to save all that we know, or to re-invent everything that could be, is no longer relegated to the realm of the imagination. I hope with this imagined story that we might inspire some young people in the same way that those real young fighters and heroes are inspiring us.

Artistes

  • Adaptation de David S. Craig
  • Mise en scène Jillian Keiley
  • Sean Arbuckle
  • Tim Campbell
  • Laura Condlln
  • Ijeoma Emesowum
  • Jordin Hall
  • Kim Horsman
  • Andrew Iles
  • Roy Lewis
  • Hilary McCormack
  • Katelyn McCulloch
  • Andrew Robinson
  • Jake Runeckles
  • Rylan Wilkie
  • Mamie Zwettler
  • décors et costumes Bretta Gerecke
  • musique originale Hawksley Workman
  • conception sonore Don Ellis
  • mouvement et marionnettes Brad Cook
  • assistance à la mise en scène Mikaela Davies
  • régie Brian Scott
  • assistance à la régie Jacki Brabazon
  • assistance à la régie Loreen Gibson

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