BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE PRESENTS A WE QUIT THEATRE PERFORMANCE ANTHOLOGY
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805-4821
I AM YOUR SPANIEL, OR, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BY GISLINA PATTERSON PASSION PLAY
BY GISLINA PATTERSON AND DASHA PLETT
JANUARY 16 - 21, 2024
“Advice to a young live (or urban) artist: Work with the accident; dwell in the wound; open it. Open more wounds on the street. Be hyper-careful! The cops & the proud boys are out to get us!” — Guillermo Gómez-Peña, La Pocha Nostra
805-4821
January 16–17 followed by an excerpt of This Alien Nation by Sadie Berlin
I AM YOUR SPANIEL, OR, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BY GISLINA PATTERSON January 18–19
PASSION PLAY January 20–21
We Quit Theatre would like to thank the wonderful staff of Buddies in Bad Times and our brilliant colleague Sadie Berlin. The pieces in this performance anthology have been variously supported by the Winnipeg Arts Council, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the SummerWorks Lab, and the Stratford Lab. We Quit Theatre is a Winnipeg-based performance collective made up of Dasha Plett and Gislina Patterson. We Quit Theatre has toured 805-4821 to Buddies in Bad Times, SummerWorks (where it won the Buddies in Bad Times Award for Performance and Innovation), PushOFF, Théâtre Catapulte, and OFFTA. In 2023 they premiered their show i am your spaniel, or, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare by Gislina Patterson at SummerWorks. We Quit Theatre’s short film, Men Explain Things to Us… And We Like It! was featured on Stratfest@Home, and is now being adapted into a live talk show through a Prairie Theatre Exchange commission. Follow the quitters on Instagram @wequittheatre, or visit their website wequittheatre.ca
Dasha Plett
Gislina Patterson
Dasha Plett (she/her) is a Winnipeg-based transsexual writer/director/ dramaturge/performer. Dasha’s live-typing performance Etudes for Keyboard has been presented by Cluster Festival and WNDX Festival. Her radio seance project PRINCESS DASHA recently premiered at send+receive, opening for world-renowned electronic musician Carl Stone. As a composer and sound designer she has worked with the Stratford Festival, Mammalian Diving Reflex, Frances Koncan, Waawaate Fobister, and Debbie Patterson. Upcoming projects include Glory, a new performance by interdisciplinary Winnipeg collective EGAD in which she plays noted feminist and CIA operative Gloria Steinem. Visit Dasha online at www.princessdasha.com. Gislina Patterson (he/they) is a playwright, performer, director, and dramaturg. They dramaturged and directed Dasha Plett’s award winning play 805-4821 which toured to SummerWorks, OFFTA, PushOFF, Théâtre Catapulte, and Buddies in Bad Times. They codirected the premiere of Rencor Vivo by The Mariachi Ghost with Jorge Requena Ramos at the Prismatic Festival, and were the 2019 recipient of the Reg Skene Award for Emerging Artists. Upcoming projects include The Tireseas Project, a collaboration between blind and trans artists with Sick + Twisted Theatre, and Eat Me, an erotic lesbian melodrama about real estate, student loans, and cannibalism. Lighting design Darren Shaen | Head Technician Diamond Srey
BUDDIES STAFF
BUDDIES STAFF
Artistic Director TED WITZEL
Emerging Creators Unit Director STEPHEN JACKMAN-TORKOFF
Artistic Associate ERUM KHAN
Youth/Elders Programming Coordinators LEZLIE LEE KAM + USMAN KHAN
Interim Director of Operations KRISTINA LEMIEUX Technical Director CONRAD MCLAREN Production Manager REBECCA VANDEVELDE Communications + Development Manager AIDAN MORISHITA-MIKI
Community + Educational Programming Producer JACOB LIN 林鴻恩 Box Office + Front-of-House Lead CAMILLE MANKUMAH + SKY FFRENCH
Box Office + Front-of-House Manager JULIA WEINLAND
Box Office + Front-of-House Representatives IFETAYO ALABI, MASON MCDONALD, SASKIA MULLER, NETA ROSE, SARAH ROWE, MAIREAD STEWART
Sales + Operations Manager JAKE RAMOS
Head of Security AIDAN McKENDRICK
Facility Manager PAUL THERRIEN
Bar Personnel RICHARD BELL, CHARLEE BOYES, ANDREW DESABRAIS, DANIEL HOANG, VISHMAYAA JEYAMOORTHY, RONNIE LÉGÈRE, DANIEL ROJAS, NETA ROSE, TY SLOANE
Finance Manager CYNTHIA MURDY Bar Manager AL THOMAS-HALL Marketing Associate NATASHA RAMONDINO Events + Stewardship Associate CHASE HIEBERT Rentals Coordinator KATHERINE TEED-ARTHUR
Board of Directors ALEXANDER HUTCHISON, MICHAEL MAN, ANU RADHA VERMA
BUDDIES COMMUNITY OF DONORS LEGACY CIRCLE Ed Cabell & Roy Forrester Kenneth Dawe John Alan Lee Russell Mathew & Scott Ferguson Richard McLellan Adam Morrison & James Owen Jim Robertson & Jim Scott VISIONARIES $5000+ The Estate of George Grant HEROES $2500+ Elephant Shoes Foundation Martha LA McCain LEADERS $1000+ Andrew Gillespie Paul Hartwick William Hodge & Robert Wylie Richard Isaac NIgE Gough Shine On Foundation
Oldfield Management Inc. Brian Sambourne Peter Taylor Woody’s on Church, in memory of Calvin Cox ADVOCATES $500+ Ed Cabell & Roy Forrester Philip Doiron Benjamin Erikson Student Fundraising from The Bishop Strachan School Charlie & Lulu Franklin Fund at the Calgary Foundation Philip Gazaleh Tucker Gordon Kent James Sarah Kaplan Montana Kimel Stephen McGregor & Tony De Franco Richard McLellan R. Howard Webster Foundation Michael David Trent Anu Radha Verma
PARTNERS $250+ Mark Aikman & Gustavo Cerquera Benjumea D. Arcand +A. Karmali Jean-Paul Bevilacqua Kate Bishop & Doug Gerhart Mark Brodsky Redbird Therapy Centre Suzanne Brunelle Jeffrey Buttle Lawrence Campbell Robert G. Coates Russell Connelly James Davis Alan Dingle Arjun Dhanjal Bryan Eaton Dennis Findlay Berkha Gupta Neil Guthrie Ronald Haynes Raymond Helkio Allen Hernandez Sean Hillier Jaigris Hodson Alex Hutchison Tom Hutchinson Dr. Ben Louie
Gilles Marchildon Rebecca Marcus Aidan Morishita-Miki Option Properties (Canada) Inc. Altaf Rajan Nik Redman Andrea Ridgley Jim Robertson & Jim Scott VS Dave Steinberg Rick Sutton Lionel Tona Allison Vanek MONTHLY DONORS Mark Aikman & Gustavo Cerquera Benjumea Golboo Amani Michel Beauvais Leyla Bikbulatove Allen Braude Mark Brodsky Jeffrey Buttle Ed Cabell & Roy Forrester Herng Yi Cheng
Nancy Clemo Russell Connelly David Couture Arjun Dhanjal Jennifer Duffy Barbara Fingerote Randy Goldman Robin Gordon Tucker Gordon Neil Guthrie Matthew Harding Raymond Helkio Allen Hernandez Sean Hillier William Hodge & Robert Wylie Jaigris Hodson Andrea Houston Alex Hutchison Montana Kimel Chanti Zoelene Laliberte Dr. Ben Louie Jonathan MacArthur Cameron MacLeod Gilles Marchildon Rebecca Marcus Catherine May
Richard McLellan Aidan Morishita-Miki Bernadette & Gene Morishita-Miki Hakeem Muhammad Nazli Nahidi Thompson Nguyen Option Properties (Canada) Inc. Rui Pires Altaf Rajan Ingrid Randoja Nik Redman Andrea Ridgley Mitsuko Sada Sonja Scharf VS Peter Taylor Lionel Tona Ayse Turak Uncle Tee Allison Vanek Anu Radha Verma Paul Wollaston David Wong & Dennis Yu Arielle Zamora
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