When you perform outdoors, storms are always a factor – and we’ve weathered a few! Inclement weather is usually something we wish away, but not this year. This year, we’re inviting a big one…
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In this episode, PJ Prudat and Patricia Allison sit down with Jenna Rodgers the director of Teenage Dick by Mike Lew, which is currently happening at the Alberta Theatre Projects. This is a companion piece to our season-long exploration of all things of Shakespeare’s Richard III and to the Ruff Reads book club which selected Teenage Dick by Mike Lew as our April read.
Listen in to this beautiful conversation with Jenna Rodgers where we talk about the play and working across difference. Enjoy!
Join us on February 26 for the second annual Ruff’s Winter Tale, presented this season with the generous support of Crow’s Theatre. Each year, RWT acts as the official launch of our season and initiates our interrogation of the themes, characters, and stories we are focusing on for the year.
Ruff 2023: RICHARD III
Join us under the Withrow willows this summer for Richard Three, written by William Shakespeare and Ruff’s own Patricia Allison. Richard Three marks the first time Ruff has revisited a play (we first produced a Richard III ten years ago in 2013), but we promise that this Richard will be unlike anything you’ve seen before.
This season, Ruff has been working with consultants Alex Bulmer, Elizabeth Morris, Jeff D’Hondt, and Angela Sun to explore new accessibility options for our production of Otîhêw. We acknowledge that these offerings won’t make the show accessible for everyone, but our hope is that this is a first step towards achieving greater and more comprehensive accessibility each season.
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Our 2022 production of Otîhêw has been a big, beautiful undertaking, and one that we realized pretty early on in the process hadn’t been given enough time to fully bloom. Out of a desire to give our creative team and crew more time to breathe and create, we are adjusting our performance schedule.
August 19th and 20th, originally planned as preview and opening, will now be rehearsal evenings. You are still welcome to join us! The process is open to witnesses from 7-10pm, and our front-of-house team will have chairs and cushions ready for you if you’d like to drop by. All are welcome, and in fact we’d love to have you there.
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For our final installment of Ruff Reads for the season, we’re discussing a piece that has been called “a decolonization of the novel” and a “fierce reclamation of Anishnaabe aesthetics”. We can’t wait to get into it.
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Thursday July 28th at 8pm on Zoom
DM us or contact ruffreads@shakespeareintheruff.com for the Zoom link. (Don’t have time to read the book but still interested in the conversation? Join us anyway!)
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Friends, we are excited to invite you to a FREE Shakespeare in the Ruff Community Event on June 29th from 6pm – 8pm in between the tress (Jack and Diane) where we seasonally perform.
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Turning away from Shakespeare’s original and towards our summer production, Ruff Reads delves into a book that has had great influence on playwright PJ Prudat and Otîhêw, her Indigenous, fur trade-era reimagining of Othello.
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Otîhêw
Written by PJ Prudat
Directed by Philip Geller
Shakespeare in the Ruff presents Otîhêw, an Indigenous reimagining of Shakespeare’s Othello by PJ Prudat.
Set during the fur trade era, Otîhêw is the story of an Indigenous woman warrior bound in the historical “custom-of-the-country” to Desmond, a fur-trader under HBC conquest. Otîhêw will be directed by Philip Geller.
Seeking:
Composer/Musician – Proficient with strings and drums. Familiar with composing atmospheric and non-diegetic sound. Will accompany every performance live. First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists will be prioritized.