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VIDEOCABARET IS GRATEFUL FOR THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF....
The Canada Council for the Arts, The Toronto Arts Council, The Ontario Arts Council
BMO Financial Group, The Cameron House, NOW Magazine
F.K. Morrow Charitable Foundation, John McKellar Charitable Foundation
The Bennett Family Charitable Foundation, Cathy and Barry Joslin and many Individual Donors.

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THE GREAT WAR SYNOPSIS

THE GREAT WAR PHOTOS

 

OFF TO FIGHT IN THE GREAT WAR: Photo of Mac Fyfe, Richard Clarkin, Anand Rajaram and Dylan Roberts by Michael Cooper		AT VIMY RIDGE: Photo of Richard Clarkin, Dylan Roberts, Anand Rajaram, Mac Fyfe and Kerry Ann Doherty by Michael Cooper
BAD NEWS DELIVERED ON THE HOMEFRONT: Photo of Rick Campbell, Dylan Roberts, Kerry Ann Doherty and Mac Fyfe by Michael Cooper		WAR DECLARATION: Photo of Rick Campbell as Arthur Meighen, Greg Campbell as PM Robert Borden and Kerry Ann Doherty as Laura Borden by Michael Cooper
VIDEOCABARET STUDIO AS COSTUME SHOP: Designer Astrid Janson won a Dora Award for her work on the 1992 presentation of The Great War. VideoCabaret is thrilled to welcome her back for this year's presentation, joined by fellow designer Sarah Armstrong, and assistant Melanie McNeill. Photo Credits: (far left) Astrid Janson tries out a costume on Sherri Catt; (second from left) Actor Kerry Ann Doherty in a fitting for her Duchess of Connaught costume; (second from right) Co-Designer Sarah Armstrong; (far right) Costume Assistant Melanie McNeill and Dini Conte.
THE GREAT WAR IN REHEARSAL: (far left) Playwright/Director Michael Hollingsworth; (second from left) Richard Clarkin, Mac Fyfe, Dylan Roberts, Anand Rajaram and Kerry Ann Doherty; (second from right) Anand Rajaram, Dylan Roberts and Richard Clarkin; (far right) new company member Casey Johnson on the sound board.

FROM THE ARCHIVES
Click here for information from the original 1992 production of The Great War

 

THE BLACK BOX SESSIONS

Peer Gynt & the Troll Princess ride the pig.
Paul Braunstein, Kerry Ann Doherty, Herbie Barnes
in Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Act II Scene 3,
directed by Alistair Newton

Featuring Guest Directors and Long Gone Playwrights November 2 - 6, 2009 / VideoCabaret at The Cameron House Led by Playwright Deanne Taylor and Designer Andy Moro Acting Company Aviva Armour-Ostroff, Paul Braunstein, Richard Alan Campbell, Kerry Ann Doherty, Anand Rajaram, Michaela Washburn Director Herbie Barnes: Agamemnon by Sophocles Director Tara Beagan: Joan of Arc by Bertolt Brecht Director Paul Braunstein: The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht Director Greg Campbell: Private Lives by Noel Coward Director Andrea Donaldson: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Director Shari Hollett: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams Director Alistair Newton: Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen Director Mark Prince: Hamlet by William Shakespeare Production Coordinator Andrew Dollar Sound Designer Justin Roddy Consulting Designers Astrid Jansen (Costumes), Brad Harley (Props), Alice Norton (Wigs) Stage Hand Patrick Wilkie Photography Benjamin Nathan Auditors Saniya Ansari, Marjie Chud, Dan Daley, Brendan Howlett, Mariel Marshall, Aaron Rothermund, Megan Watson

Inspired by the initial incarnation of The Black Box Sessions in May, we followed up with round two, November 2-6, 2009. Eight 'tech'-starved playmakers were invited to choose a scene or fragment from any play whose entertainment value has lasted 2500 to perhaps 50 years; that is, one written by a theatre genius. Their resources for this mission included the company's black-box-seasoned, award-winning, gentle and versatile Actors, Lighting Designer, Sound Designer, Stage Manager, and Artistic Co-Director. The Sessions are not designed to promote VideoCab's specific form of 'black-box' nor our unique style; rather, to explore the widely adaptable principles that inform it: • integrate 'full tech' into rehearsal, • light actors rather than sets, • act for the audience,  • use words and sound, light and costume, to conjure place and time in the audience's imagination. Click here for photos from The Black Box Sessions, November 2009 Click here for photos from The Black Box Sessions May 2009

 

PLAY WORKSHOPS
VideoCabaret continues to provide seed money and space for creators to develop new plays over many lively sessions – with no table readings allowed. This year, creators working in the VideoCab Studio include Misha Shulman, Rebecca Singh, Clifford Cardinal, Tara Beagan, Adam Paolazzo, Anand Rajaram, Jim LeFrancois.

 

COWBOYS & INDIANS Created and performed by Anand Rajaram May-June 2009 Music composed and performed by Bob Wiseman at the Factory Studio Theatre Presented by @N@f@N@ in association with VideoCabaret In the spring VideoCabaret partnered on Cowboys & Indians, an Eastern-Western showdown wordlessly expressed by Anand Rajaram’s telegraphic body and Bob Wiseman’s eloquent score. Anand Rajaram is an actor, playwright and cultural wave-maker. He has been associated with VideoCabaret from City for Sale (2004) to Laurier (2008), and rocked the room at Second City from 2005-7. This summer he reprised his role in Sunil Kuruvilla’s Rice Boy at the Stratford Festival. “* * * * one of the most in-your-face (not to mention most off-the-wall) presentations onstage right now in Toronto…What makes this piece worth the ticket is the magic of Rajaram’s careful and captivating mime and the attentive and interactive music of Bob Wiseman driving it.” –Eye Weekly

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