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battery opera LIVES WERE AROUND ME A site-specific, roving theatre work that explores the notions of history and evidence in the context of the historic centre of Vancouver The event begins at The Alibi Room (157 Alexander Street) Tickets $26 Adults / $18 Students, Seniors and battery opera members * Due to the limited space available for each show, we encourage you to purchase your tickets in advance *
-LIVES WERE AROUND ME- is an intimate, guided tour for an audience of three, a site-specific, roving theatre work that explores the notions of history and evidence in the context of the historic centre of Vancouver. -LIVES WERE AROUND ME- is David’s toast to this city, a libation of place and experience, utilizing the Coroner’s City Examination Room, performances by Adrienne Wong, Paul Ternes, Aleister Murphy, and the city itself. This production utilizes text from James Kelman’s novel, Translated Accounts. About David McIntosh and battery opera Described as “sexy, propulsive, deeply metaphorical”, battery opera’s award- winning work interrogates the contemporary body as a site of intersecting and displaced histories and habits. Underlying the practice of battery opera is a dynamic dialogue and mutual attraction between opposing tensions, an exchange that is sensitive to the nuances of power and influence in the socio-political history we have inherited. In battery opera, forms and traditions meet, merge and collide to celebrate the power and fragility of a human body that breathes, speaks, sings, thinks, moves, dances.
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