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Tear the Curtain! (A FilmTheatre Hybrid) Kindle Edition

by Kevin Kerr (Author), Jonathon Young (Author), Kim Collier (Contributor) Format: Kindle Edition
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In this psychological thriller set in a fictionalized 1930s Vancouver, Alex Braithewaite, a troubled but passionate theatre critic, believes he has found the legendary Stanley Lee, director of the infamous avant-garde theatre The Empty Space. Alex becomes convinced that this man’s radically subversive ideas are what the city’s arts community needs to shatter audience complacency. In his pursuit of the truth behind Stanley Lee’s mysterious disappearance and his artistic ideas, Alex becomes caught between the warring factions of two prominent mob families – one controlling the city’s playhouses, the other its cinemas, but both ensnared by the Empty Space Society. At the dawn of the Talkies, can Alex tear through the artifice of these art forms in time to save the city’s art community from ripping itself apart?

The play’s collaborators found inspiration within the walls of Vancouver’s Stanley Theatre, a space that has a dual history as a cinema and vaudeville house. Fittingly, this gritty film-noir production became an exploration of the two kinds of art and how they affect the audience. Tear the Curtain! explores global issues that consider what we want from art: to be shocked and surprised or for order to be restored.

Cast of 2 women and 8 men.

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"brilliant fusion of two enduring art forms"
– Globe and Mail



"prophetic" "stunning" – National Post



"stylish" "a rich pastiche" – Toronto Sun



"a fascinating puzzle of a production" – NOW Magazine

About the Author

Jonathon Young’s previous collaborative plays include Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla, The Score, and Palace Grand. Young is a co-founders, with Kevin Kerr, Kim Collier, and David Hudgins, of Electric Company Theatre. Originally formed as a theatre collective in 1996, Electric Company Theatre is now a leading force in the Vancouver theatre scene, creating original work that is rich in spectacle, adventurous in form, and strong in narrative.

Kim Collier has co-authored seven original plays with Electric Company Theatre. In 2010 she was awarded the prestigious Siminovitch Prize in Theatre for directing. She is currently resident artist at Canadian Stage in Toronto. Collier is a co-founder, along with Kevin Kerr, Jonathon Young, and David Hudgins, of Electric Company Theatre. Originally formed as a theatre collective in 1996, Electric Company Theatre is now a leading force in the Vancouver theatre scene, creating original work that is rich in spectacle, adventurous in form, and strong in narrative.

Kevin Kerr is playwright and founding member of Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre, with whom he’s co-written numerous plays including The Wake, The Score, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Flop, The Fall, and Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla.

In 2002 he received the Governor General’s Literary Award for his play Unity (1918), which has been produced across Canada as well as in the United States and Australia.

In 2005 he co-wrote the feature-length screen adaptation of Electric Company’s The Score for Screen Siren Pictures and CBC Television.

Other works include Studies in Motion (Electric Company Theatre) and Skydive (Realwheels). At present he is writing a stage adaptation of Pierre Berton’s children’s classic “The Secret World of Og” for Vancouver’s Carousel Theatre.

For Electric Company he’s co-directed Brilliant!, The Wake, and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, and in 2008 he directed Jonathon Young’s Palace Grand, presented at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.

Kevin was Lee Playwright in Residence at the University of Alberta in Edmonton from 2007 to 2010. He returned to Electric Company Theatre in 2011 as Artistic Director.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00NE6PC14
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Talonbooks (December 18, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 18, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2039 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 088922904X
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Newly arriving to the Department of Writing, Kevin recently spent three years as the Lee Playwright in Residence at the University of Alberta. Originally from Kamloops, BC, Kevin studied theatre at UBC and acting Vancouver's Studio 58. In 1996 he co-founded Vancouver's Electric Company Theatre with his Studio 58 colleagues Kim Collier, Jonathon Young, and David Hudgins. Since then he has worked with Electric Company as a writer, actor and director as well as serving as co-Artistic Director and now Artistic Director. His work with Electric Company emphasizes spectacular physical and visual imagery, cinematic vocabulary, and the quest for authentic connection in an accelerated culture. The company's work has been seen on the major stages across Canada as well as to theatres in the USA and UK. He now lives in Victoria with his wife, the most excellent poet Marita Dachsel, and their three young children.

In 2002, Kevin received the Governor General's Literary Award for his play Unity (1918). He is also a four-time recipient of the Jessie Award for Outstanding Original Script. With Electric Company Kevin was writer or co-writer of Brilliant!, The Wake, The Score, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, The Fall, and Studies in Motion. Other Works include Skydive and Spine (Both for Realwheels), and Secret World of Og for Carousel Theatre. Kevin was lead writer on the adaptation of The Score, a feature film for CBC Television, produced by Screen Siren Pictures. With Jonathon Young and Kim Collier he co-wrote Tear the Curtain! a film/theatre hybrid, presented in October 2012 at Canadian Stage in Toronto. He is working on a screen adaptation of Unity (1918) and recently had his play Studies in Motion optioned by Motion 58.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fab read!
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As a J Young fan i was interested in his book...i was not dissapointed! A really great read which shall remain on my bedside table to be read again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!!
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