HIVE 2

                                      a Magnetic North Theatre Festival Presentation

Created and produced by Boca del Lupo, Electric Company, Felix Culpa, Leaky Heaven Circus, neworldtheatre, the Only Animal, Radix, Rumble Productions, Theatre Replacement, Theatre SKAM, and Theatre Conspiracy.

In a warehouse, eleven theatre companies who like to hang out together create intimate performances for adventurous audiences. Some may be astounding, some may be atrocious, but there’s always a lounge for shouting and central party space to buzz the night away. Each company is given total control over its own space and presentation, creating a unique short theatre piece, performed at repeated intervals over the course of the evening. Performances may include a carnival side-show, a piece of toy drama, a post-modern slice of faux dinner theatre, or none of the above.

Inspired by the popular gallery-mosh SWARM, HIVE is an unprecedented coming together of our thriving independent theatre scene. In 2006 eleven independent theatre companies produced a giant, multi-faceted performance installation, called HIVE.  Thanks to the resounding success of those first intimate experiments, the Magnetic North Theatre Festival has commissioned HIVE2.
 
HIVE2 is supported by Arts Partners in Creative Development.

Centre for Digital Media
577 Great Northern Way
7 – 10pm : Lively Theatrics
10pm – late :  Live Music

Single tickets on sale May 1

Buy yours now!!!

HIVE 2006 completely sold out in days!
 
Tickets in advance only $25. ($35 at the door – if there are any left)
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TOM PINKERTON

The Ballad of Butterfly's  Son

A Musical Drama 
 
book by Hiro Kanagawa
music by David MacIntyre
lyrics by Hiro Kanagawa and David MacIntyre

At the end of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, the 3-year-old child of Cio-Cio and B.F. Pinkerton is whisked away to America to be raised by Pinkerton and his American wife, Kate. Set 20 years after these events, Tom Pinkerton finds the child struggling to become a man and searching for the mother he never knew. We travel with the youth, now called Tom, as he revisits the Nagasaki of his birth to find love and self-realization. But is he fated to repeat the sins of his father? And what has become of Mr. Sharpless, Suzuki, and the others?

Both a return and a departure, Tom Pinkerton is an exciting new collaboration between playwright Hiro Kanagawa and composer David MacIntyre that combines the heightened emotions and theatricality of its operatic forebear with the tragic realities of Japan’s wondrous and sinister march through the early years of the 20th century.

Book by Hiro Kanagawa
Music by David MacIntyre
Lyrics by Hiro Kanagawa and David MacIntyre
Dramaturg: Rachel Ditor