{"id":1060,"date":"2018-02-02T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2019-10-29T23:36:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T03:36:16","slug":"pwm-pgc-process-reading-room-pony-andrea-cooper-february-2-2018-4-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/fr\/2018\/02\/02\/pwm-pgc-process-reading-room-pony-andrea-cooper-february-2-2018-4-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Reading of Room for a Pony"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScn6LZ2ggRgpWWJbYe3AbDkxbnYxqdWAnc8Llz2E11cHqnPcA\/viewform?usp=sf_link\"><strong>CLICK TO RSVP<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Join us for a PWM and PGC in process reading of<\/span> <span style=\"color: #2f0bc3;\"><strong><em>Room for a Pony<\/em><\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #333333;\">and more&nbsp;with performance artist <strong>Andrea Cooper<\/strong> from Newfoundland<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Featuring Stefanie Buxton, Michelle Rambharose, Davide Chiazzese, and Amir Sam Nakhjavani<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Friday, February 2, 2018&nbsp; at 4 p.m.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">at PWM Studio (7250 Clark St, Suite 103<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Montr\u00e9al, QC &nbsp;H2R 2Y3)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Alexa spends her days verbally sparring with her pet parrot, sexting and engaging in late night rendezvous with strange men. As Alexa and her parrot become engulfed in a mutually shared self hatred, their verbal and physical relationship escalates. At times uncomfortable and exhausting, Room for A Pony explores transcending sex and death. Is there hope somewhere outside of the noise of technology, and a potential apocalypse?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Andrea Cooper<\/strong> is an interdisciplinary artist with a Masters in Visual Studies from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Concordia. In April 2017, her recent work&nbsp;<i>Room For A Pony<\/i>, was selected from across Canada for the <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/fr\/national-residencies\/gros-morne-playwrights-residency\/\">R\u00e9sidence d\u2019\u00e9criture th\u00e9\u00e2trale de Gros-morne<\/a> headed by Playwrights&#8217; Workshop Montr\u00e9al in partnership with <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cead.qc.ca\/_accueil\">Le Centre des auteurs dramatiques (CEAD)<\/a> and with the support of <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creativegrosmorne.com\/\">Creative Gros Morne<\/a>. Cooper&#8217;s video <i>Honey<\/i> premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival&#8217;s Forum Expanded in 2010. <i>Strange Things <\/i>premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival&#8217;s Forum Expanded in 2007 and won the National Film Board of Canada&#8217;s Emerging Filmmaker\/Video Artist Award at the Images Festival. Cooper&#8217;s work has been exhibited in galleries across Canada, including the solo exhibitions <i>Fickle as Poison<\/i> (2009) at Grunt Gallery in Vancouver, <i>Anna <\/i>at Red Head Gallery (2012), and<i> This Far North<\/i> at Eastern Edge Gallery (2014). Her video work is distributed by V-Tape in Toronto. <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.andreacooper.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.andreacooper.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1516323826351000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEmGrjk4v86KGeE_1nvq34OLk0Y4Q\">www.andreacooper.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/PlayConnect-Logo-Transparent-for-Black-Background-2-1024x273.png\" alt=\"Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC) Logo\" width=\"525\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/PlayConnect-Logo-Transparent-for-Black-Background-2-1024x273.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/PlayConnect-Logo-Transparent-for-Black-Background-2-300x80.png 300w, https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/PlayConnect-Logo-Transparent-for-Black-Background-2-768x205.png 768w, https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/PlayConnect-Logo-Transparent-for-Black-Background-2.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLICK TO RSVP &nbsp; 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