part of BMO Lab’s ‘Staging Infrastructures’ Winter Lecture Series
Theatre artists Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava joined Prof. Doug Eacho to discuss their recent Canadian Stage multimedia spectacle Universal Child Care, gendered issues of care work and arts-making, and the need for political performance today.
Here is a recording of the presentation:
Universal Child Care:
Witness the sheer power and force of the unaccompanied human voice in the newest work from Quote Unquote Collective. Part concert, part theatre play (and self-consciously neither of those things), the ensemble screams about the lack of affordable child care and growing inequalities while comparing different approaches to child care around the globe.
Quote Unquote Collective:
Quote Unquote Collective is a Canadian multi-disciplinary performance company that aims to work outside the boundaries of tradition and expectation. Co-founders Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, who both have backgrounds in physical theatre and music, have joined forces to produce work founded on the belief that art and performance are tools to provoke conversation and change. The duo’s multi-award winning project, Mouthpiece (Coach House Press), premiered in Toronto in 2015. It has gone on to tour internationally, receiving multiple awards, a showing in LA sponsored by Jodie Foster and is translated in several languages. Currently Mouthpiece is being performed by companies in Albania, Turkey and Romania. They then adapted, starred in and composed the score for the feature film Mouthpiece with director Patricia Rozema. The film opened TIFF in 2018 and is distributed internationally. They have directed music videos for bands such as July Talk and U.S. Girls, created a six-woman rock-opera Now You See Her (Coach House Books), birthed three humans, and are currently working on a television series with producers Babe Nation, as well as their next feature film script
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