Little Iliad
Photo: Trevor Schwellnus

 

Little Iliad

 

Feb 16 (Sat) 16:00/17:00* | 17 (Sun) 13:30/14:30*
*With video screening of a related piece Ajax (ticket of the previous show is valid)
Yokohama Creativecity Center 3F
Admission included in TPAM Pass
Ticket: Door ¥2,000

 

Childhood friends, a writer and a soldier en route to Afghanistan, reconnect on Skype over a little-known story of Trojan War. One actor is live and the other is a recorded projection on a blank, clay figurine. The audience listens on headphones to an intimate cinema-play, as Little Iliad explores the shared territory of contemporary artists and soldiers and reveals the reasons people go to war.

 

Performed in English with Japanese subtitles / Screening and conversation with English–Japanese consecutive interpretation

Created and performed by Evan Webber and Frank Cox-O’Connell, in collaboration with Trevor Schwellnus, Christopher Stanton, Pierre-Antoine Lafon Simard, Bojana Stancic.
Management and representation by Kris Nelson / Antonym.
Produced by EW&FCO and Harbourfront Centre, in association with The Cork Midsummer Festival and The Banff Centre.
Developed and presented with the support of the Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Organized by: EW&FCO, Antonym Productions, Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama 2013 Executive Committee
Supported by: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council
Contact: Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama Secretariat

 

Photo: Trevor Schwellnus

Evan Webber & Frank Cox-O’Connell
Evan Webber & Frank Cox-O’Connell make theatre in conversation with each other in Toronto Canada. Frank is an actor and director in theatre, and a rock drummer in music. Evan is a writer and performance maker who writes about theatre and visual art. Together they have authored, co-created or facilitated over a dozen performance works in Canada, the US and Europe. Their performance work brings formal rigour to the casual, participatory and spontaneous; it documents their ongoing conversation about how performance changes reality.