Welcome to Theatre Replacement

Hello and thanks for visiting the site. Here you can find the latest info on our projects, past and present. We offer unique stories brought to you in ways that are sure to challenge, entertain and stir things up a bit. This coming season, we tread on new territory with That Night Follows Day, a script written by Forced Entertainment's Tim Etchells, and performed by 16 local kids between the ages of 8-14. We also bring you Twenty Minute Musicals , 4 commissioned mini-musicals curated by our own in house sound maestra Veda Hille. BIOBOXES hits the road again and TRAIN comes home to BC. 

Our artist in residence, the multi-talented Cindy Mochizuki launches two new web projects for the upcoming Greatest Cities in the World and Dress me up in your love, as well as a sweet makeover for many of our promo stuffs. Stay tuned for the launches.

It's busy. And we're also trying to have a nice summer.

Please, come again.

"Some of Canada's best experimental theatre makers."
— The Georgia Straight

 

 

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SUMMER IS FOR GAMES

This summer, Theatre Replacement is IN DEVELOPMENT for 2 new projects, Greatest Cities in the World and Dress me up in your love. We are also hosting our 3rd bi-annual SPARK workshop, August 4 - 8, in Vancouver. Click here to register or find out more info.

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James Long in Search of the Greatest Cities in The World (in Tennessee).

On Thursday June 26 at 8am I will board a plane to Nashville Tennessee. After disembarking, I will drive 24.48 miles east to Lebanon. I’ll stay in Lebanon for two days while visiting Rome, a small town just outside the city. On Sunday morning I’ll drive 219.99 miles to the Cherokee National Forest and visit London. After two days there I will drive the 124.88 miles west to Athens, then the 339.69 miles along the Barbeque Trail to Moscow. On this leg I will dip briefly into Mississippi. After Moscow it’s 94.81 miles north to Bogota and then 85.76 miles east to Paris. 

In each of these places I will be recording interviews with citizens, asking them what exactly it is that makes their city the greatest in the world. I will post back to our site with reports. Stay tuned.

This is the first development phase of a new work by Theatre Replacement premiering in the winter of 2010.

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I WANT YOUR PANTS!
Wait. Let me explain.

We are currently doing some research and development on a new work, called Dress me up in your love, for which we have been collecting outfits of significance from some fascinating subjects both near and far. Every outfit holds a potential wealth of stories and connections, which will be told as we get dressed, undressed and then dressed again. So far we’ve got a stylish coordinate worn by a former Japanese Canadian model for the Hudson’s Bay Company in the 1950’s, a dress worn to a 100th birthday party on the Prairies, and Stanley Tucci’s suit.

These initial explorations will be presented at the Powell Street Festival on the grounds of Oppenheimer Park, August 2nd and 3rd, 2008. Visit: www.powellstreetfestival.com for performance times and info.

The full work will premiere in 2011.