THEATRE SMITH-GILMOUR
Registered Name: THEATRE SMITH-GILMOUR
Business No: 119214427RR0001
This organization is designated by Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) as a registered charity. They comply with the CRA's requirements and have been issued a charitable registration number.
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Our Mission
* We believe that the actor's imagination is at the centre of the process and the actors must risk failing in order to find a new freedom.
* Beyond linguistic, cultural and age barriers, we believe in a theatre of image and action that can make us feel by speaking to the heart.
* We believe that theatre can make us more humane, more tender, more compassionate, and more refined.
* We believe that the audience takes part in the show; that we are in a dialogue with the audience, a dialogue of feelings. We want to open their eyes, to make them feel, to touch them through feelings and vulnerability.
* We believe in a theatre that has no 4th wall, no sofas, no kitchen sinks. We believe in a theatre that is here and now on a bare stage but at the same time somewhere else through the actor's imagination and the audience's imagination.
* In our work we write with our bodies.
* We believe that theatre asks people to listen, see and feel with the heart.
* We believe that the purpose of art is to make people more fragile, tender and tolerant.
* We believe that theatre creates a sense of community.
* We believe that theatre should destroy certitude and open up the imagination.
* We believe that art should educate and encourage change.
* The artistic process is at the heart of every aspect of our company's operations.
* We believe that art is vital to our community.
* We believe that artistic diversity is what will make our culture healthy.
About THEATRE SMITH-GILMOUR
Dean Gilmour and Michele Smith met in 1978 while studying at the School of Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France. In 1980, they formed the company and since have created 30 shows, 16 of which were original plays. The company has toured across Canada several times and to 14 countries throughout Europe and Asia.
Their work has been nominated for 24 Dora Awards (winning 5) as well as being nominated twice for the Chalmers' Best Canadian Play Award.
RECENT PRODUCTIONS:
Chekhov shorts
Chekhov longs...in the Ravine
Chekhov's Heartache
Dr. Chekhov: Ward 6
Lu Xun: Blossoms (1st Sino-Canadian Co-production in theatre)
Katherine Mansfield
SPENT
GRIMM and GRIMMtoo
As I Lay Dying
The Idiot
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