Written by David Gagnon Walker
Created and performed with Tori Morrison
A Strange Victory Performance
Developed in collaboration with PWM
Date: Friday, October 25, 2024
Time: 3 PM
Venue: PWM Studio, 7250 Clark St Suite 103, Montreal, QC H2R 2Y3
Please note that Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal is not located in a fully accessible building. Our space is located above street level and is only accessible via a flight of stairs (nine steps). More info here.
This is a FREE event. Donations are welcome at the door.
This work-in-process reading will be the culmination of a week of exploration between David, Tori, Christian Barry and Fatma Sarah Elkashef and will be followed by a conversation with the playwright.
Please RSVP by emailing heather@playwrights.ca: There is limited seating available, so reservations will be first come, first served.
Synopsis
David and Tori tell two stories. One story is true and recent. The other is made up and old. One is about being a certain type of person with a certain type of mind. The other is about dealing with that type of person. They’re kind of the same story on a loop. Every song is kind of the same song. You know a song is over when it stops.
Content advisory
Mental illness, suicide
Accessibility Information
You can find accessibility information about our space here. Please let us know if you have any accessibility requests when you RSVP so we can do our best to accommodate them. Some accessibility request examples include, but are not limited to: Reserving a seat close to the front, on an aisle, or close to the exit; reserving a seat for a support person, etc.
About the Playwright
David Gagnon Walker is an award-winning writer, performer, and translator born in Edmonton and based in Toronto. His work has been performed and developed in cities across Canada, and through residencies in Sweden, Finland, France, Australia, and the USA. David’s interactive play This Is the Story of the Child Ruled by Fear has been touring since 2021, with twelve presenters to date including an upcoming Ontario Presents tour, and is published by Playwrights Canada Press. Other recent projects include Premium Content (Major Matt Mason Collective/High Performance Rodeo), The Last Children (Curtain Razors), and the English translation of Gabrielle Chapdelaine’s The Retreat (Imago Theatre). He holds an M.A. in Performance Studies from the University of Toronto, and is a graduate of the playwriting program at the National Theatre School of Canada. www.davidgagnonwalker.com
David is Artistic Producer of Strange Victory Performance, a collaboration with composer and production manager Tori Morrison. Their projects collide highly personal content with new performance forms and modes of audience engagement. While grounded in text-based theatre practices, their work has included artists and methods from music, dance, circus, visual art, and digital performance. SVP’s primary interest is the mystery of creativity: the movement from an impulse, to an image, to a structured artistic work, and how this movement can inspire, heal, and transform the human beings it passes through.