Through My Lens
Available for touring.
Through My Lens is a new intimate work by theatre artist Amy Amantea that combines conversation, hospitality and portraiture.
Amy is an artist with a lived experience of blindness, specifically having a total of 2% vision in one eye. She is also a photographer with a practice that involves walking the city at twilight looking for interesting light patterns and capturing them with her camera.
Through My Lens. Photo by Amy Amantea.
Through My Lens brings these life experiences into one small photography studio where Amantea shares her work as a photographer with a single participant who then describes her images—images she has never “seen”—back to her. The photos reveal themselves in accordance with the conversation and open up new realms of perception—a reciprocal collision of visual and non-visual experiences.
Written and Performed by Amy Amantea, with Writing and Direction by James Long, Media Design and Operation by Nico Dicecco, Lighting and Set Design by Sophie Tang, Production Support by Jordyn Wood, and Technical Direction by Daniel O’Shea.
Through My Lens was first commissioned by SpiderWebShow Performance, premiered at FOLDA in Kingston, ON and has toured to undercurrents in Ottawa. Produced by Theatre Replacement.
WORLD PREMIERE
FOLDA
June 7—10, 2023
KITCHENER, ON
TOURING
HOLD ON LET GO
January 25 + 27, 2024
VANCOUVER
Ottawa Fringe Festival
February 7-17, 2024
OTTAWA
For touring inquiries, contact jameslongconnect@gmail.com
Photos by Amy Amantea. Video by Nico Dicecco.