Eurydice Fragments

IndieFest 2024 presents the World Premiere of Eurydice Fragments. Join us for an immersive live theatre experience at Signals Studio at the Centre for Digital Media, Nov 15-17. Explore All IndieFest programming at indiefest.ca

Doors open 45 mins before the show starts.

If you can't find all performance dates in ticket checkout, click HERE

*Important: Nov 15th is sold out online. We will have 10 tickets at the door so please arrive right at 6:45pm if you want to secure a seat. You will be seated either in Cabaret or Front Riser seats.

Four performance dates:

Friday November 15th | 7:30pm | Doors open at 6:45 PM (SOLD OUT ONLINE. 10 tickets at door, first come first serve)

Saturday November 16th | 2:00pm | Doors open at 1:15 PM
Saturday November 16th | 7:30pm | Doors open at 6:45 PM
Sunday November 17th | 2:00pm | Doors open at 1:15 PM

Signals Studio at the Centre for Digital Media
577 Great Northern Way, Vancouver

About:

Eurydice Fragments is a contemporary version of the Orphean Greek myth that fuses powerful vocal performance, dance, extended reality, motion capture, and interactive technologies. Through an immersive exploration of our digital and carbon existences, the performance dissolves the binaries we are bound to from birth until death, and strums the threads between heaven and hell, male and female, maker and muse, performer and audience.

Co-created by Luke Hathaway and Teiya Kasahara, The story follows O, a trans person whose sense of gender and identity is expansive — yet who has lived a fractured life. Haunted by past experiences and personhoods that have been suppressed, repressed, or condemned, O journeys to the Styx, a queerbar, where they find the opportunity to express themself through avatars in extended reality. As O navigates the fluid landscapes of identity and technology, Eurydice Fragments challenges us to question: how do we navigate the vastness of our identities in spaces that resist our multiplicity?

Performers:

Teiya Kasahara as O
Brandon Thornhill as Hope
Toddy as Plusephone
Leo D.E Johnson as Charon
Sara Vickruck, Chorus
Alyssa Samson, Chorus
Asitha Tennekoon, Chorus
Kunji Ikeda as Shadow
Scribbly Doodle, Beatboxer
Jen Lewin, Co-Music Director & Keyboardist
Perri Lo, Co-Music Director & Keyboardist
Alex Chen, Co-Music Director & Keyboardist

Content note for representations of intersex/trans/nonbinary-erasure, in the form of oppressive language and systemic prejudice: these are things our production attempts to disrupt. Specific scenes draw on oppressive language around prenatal identification of intersex genetics, and on legal language enforcing limitations on gender fluidity.

Approx runtime: 90 mins

Ticketing Notes:

Cabaret tables seat 4. Cabaret seating is available as single tickets or as a 4-ticket package with 4 drink tickets included.

If you need accessible seating, please indicate via the checkbox in checkout or contact marketing@reopera.com.

If you are Indigenous, Inuit, or Métis: Contact marketing@reopera.com for access to free tickets.

Getting There:

Signals Studio at CDM is accessible by public transportation. It is an 18-minute walk from the Main Street-Science World and a 12-minute walk from VCC-Clark SkyTrain stations, as well as close to the 84 VCC/UBC, 3 Main, 8 Fraser, 19 Kingsway or the 22 Knight St. bus routes.

Parking: There are a dozen hourly/daily stalls available in front of Kafka’s Coffee. Paid hourly/daily/monthly underground parking is available at 565 Great Northern Way in the South Flatz Lot #119. There is very limited paid street parking on Great Northern Way, between Carolina and Thornton Streets.

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We're able to continue developing Eurydice Fragments with the support from the National Creation Fund from the National Arts Centre⁠.⁠ Eurydice Fragments is created in partnership with Arkora Music. ⁠This project is supported by the Province of British Columbia. Thank you to Creative BC, and Metro Vancouver for your support.⁠

IndieFest 2024 is supported by the City of Vancouver, BC Arts Council, DigiBC, Vancouver Civic Theatres, and the Province of British Columbia. We gratefully acknowledge the support of Canada Council and we are funded by the Government of Canada - Financé par le Gouvernement du Canada⁠.

Thank you to our IndieFest and Eurydice Fragments Funders and Community Partners