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Exciting New Works!

September 19, 2017 by Realwheels Leave a Comment

The seasons are officially changing! You can feel it in the air… We are excited to announce what’s on and upcoming for Realwheels in OUR new season!

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Realwheels is thrilled to produce SEQUENCE by Arun Lakra as part of  Presentation House Theatre‘s 2017-18 season.

SEQUENCE is an extraordinary piece of Canadian playwriting that explores questions of determinism vs. free will via two stories that interweave like a strand of DNA. Get ready for razor sharp, cerebral dialogue and an edge-of-your-seat story!

We invite actors with disabilities to audition.  View character descriptions and submission info here:  https://www.vancouveractorsguide.com/auditions/sequence

We welcome submissions from outside of Vancouver.


 

New Play In Development

One of Canada’s celebrated playwrights, Janet Munsil, is currently writing ACT OF FAITH  for Realwheels’ 2018-19 season.

Inspired by a story that baffles the medical/scientific community, arouses conflicting emotions in the disability community, and is celebrated by the religious community to which ‘Faith’ belongs, we guarantee you’ll be jazzed and challenged by ACT OF FAITH’s subject matter, and excited by the unique theatrical vocabulary we’re developing for production.

CLICK HERE to view a short video capturing the residency held at The Cultch this past July.


 

Community Opportunity!

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Image courtesy of Reproduce & Revolt

Our next community-based Wheel Voices  project is WHEEL VOICES POWER PLAY.

WHEEL VOICES POWER PLAY is rooted in our eagerness to scrutinize and challenge questions of identity and marginalization.  With a group of 12-18 community participants, we’ll be offering a six (6) day intensive, applying Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed methodology,  and culminating in a public presentation.  Special guest Tom Scholte will facilitate.

Community round tables / info sessions will be scheduled for spring 2018, followed by a two-hour “Rainbow of Desire” introductory workshop. The six-day intensive will follow.

We’re committed to creating a healthy, safe environment.  WHEEL VOICES POWER PLAY is open to anyone who self-identifies with disability. No theatre experience necessary. Workshop is fully subsidized and is offered free of charge. Space is limited.

Please contact info@realwheels.ca if you would like to participate, or attend an info session.

Filed Under: The Spin Tagged With: Act of Faith, Arun Lakra, audition, character, community, disability, identity, Janet Munsil, marginalization, playwright, production, Sequence, The Cultch, Vancouver, Wheel Voices, Wheel Voices Power Play

Realwheels presents CREEPS and announces new Wheel Voices project!

October 11, 2016 by Realwheels Leave a Comment

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Join us for an evening of savage wit and uncompromising truth-telling!

CREEPS is an award-winning dark comedy by David E. Freeman that rocked the North American theatre world and changed Canadian theatre forever.

Four men work in a sheltered workshop doing mundane work. The toilet is their safe place, their escape from their institutionalized environment as well as the charities that support it.

“You will then be brought to our attention either by relatives who have no room for you in the attic, or by neighbours who are distressed to see you out in the street,
clashing with the landscape.”

Historic Theatre at The Cultch
1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC
December 1 – 10, 2016
Tickets: $18 – $40

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS


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Wheel Voices is returning with a great new theme!

Join us for Comedy on Wheels!

This workshop-to-performance community collaboration is a response to community interest to strengthen and capitalize on one of our greatest assets – the ability to use humour and storytelling to cope with life’s challenges.

As a participant, you’ll receive coaching and training in comedy, storytelling, and other theatre-based disciplines from various guest artists, led by the collaborative team of International Comedy Expert David Granirer and Realwheels’ own Rena Cohen. As with all Wheel Voices projects, we’re excited to nurture and develop emerging talent in the disability community.

All training is offered free of charge.

The project will culminate in a celebration of everyone’s stories in a fully-staged theatrical production in May 2017!

NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!!!

Two roundtable discussions will take place in January 2017.  These conversations will kickstart the creative process, serving to share information, get community feedback and perspective, and offer up some exercises to get your comedic wheels turning.

Comedy on Wheels workshops will then officially launch February 04, 2017.

Contact info@realwheels.ca if you’re interested in participating or have any questions!

Filed Under: The Spin Tagged With: clowning, Comedy on Wheels, community, community project, Creeps, David E. Freeman, disability, disability community, production, professional, storytelling, The Cultch, theatre, theatre-based, Wheel Voices

Whose Life Is It Anyway? Opens in Vancouver at The Cultch

March 11, 2014 by Realwheels 1 Comment

Prepare to laugh and cry at a play that explores how we define compassion. ‘Whose Life Is It Anyway?’ will be playing at The Cultch starting this Tuesday March 11th, running until Saturday March 22nd.

Whose Life Is It Anyway? will leave you wondering if someone be allowed the right to choose whether to live or die?

Whose Life Is It Anyway? may leave you examining your own perspective on the right-to-die issue, currently under public scrutiny.

Written by award winning playwright Brian Clark, the play is set in a hospital room with the action revolving around main character Ken Harrison. Ken, a brilliant sculptor was in a car accident and is now paralyzed from the neck down. Determined to be allowed to die, Ken’s will comes up against an equally strong medical establishment determined to do its job by keeping him alive.

James Sanders, founder of Realwheels, was first inspired by the play as a young 21 year old with quadriplegia, new to the world of disability.  Although it might seem counter-intuitive, this play was a gift that inspired him to carry on.  “Today this play highlights for me the reality of everyone’s future.” For James, the play isn’t about the value of a life lived with disability, but rather, he emphasizes, about “an individual’s right to choose.”

Rena Cohen, Managing Director explains, “James Sanders possesses a vision for the company that sets Realwheels apart.  We occupy a truly unique niche engaged with both the professional theatre community, and the disability community.” With Whose Life is it Anyway?, we’re providing a theatrical platform for discussion around right-to-die issues. The play brings wit, intelligence, and compassion to the discussion, and it’s also tremendously entertaining!”

Rena is proud to be associated with the value that Realwheels expresses through production activity, “I see the impact that we have on audiences and I also see the impact that we have on the community of people with disabilities. In addition to professional productions such as Whose Life is it Anyway?, Realwheels also provides experiences in the performing arts to the disability community, a community typically underserved when it comes to theatre. Our work fills me with tremendous pride and love and makes me feel very privileged to be with this company.”

To learn more about the thoughts of this writer on the play and sitting in during the rehearsals of Whose Life Is It Anyway?, click here to read a post written on Being Emme, a site known for rave theatrical reviews.

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James Sanders and Noelle Sediego (Assistant to Pam Johnson, Set & Prop Design) sit through a table read at rehearsals, as photographed by Rena Cohen.

Whose Life Is It Anyway? will be playing at The Cultch from March 11th to 22nd, nightly at 8pm.  Purchase your tickets for March 13th or 18th and enjoy a lively post show Q & A session. Realwheels is offering Sign Language Interpretation provided by A.S.L. Interpreting Inc., and a Described Performance by VocalEye for those with vision loss offered at the matinee on Sunday, March 16th at 2pm.  Tickets are available now from The Cultch starting at $18 or call 604-251-1363.

Connect with Realwheels on Facebook and Twitter to get involved in the conversation around #WhoseLife and be sure to leave your comments on the show.

Enjoy the Performance!  We look forward to your thoughts on it!

Filed Under: Centre Stage, The Spin, Wheely Good Tagged With: Brian Clark, disability community, James Sanders, living with disability, quadriplegia, Realwheels, Rena Cohen, right to choose, right to die, The Cultch, Vancouver Theatre, Whose Life Is It Anyway?

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