Plays
Studies in Motion
Apr 1 - Apr 18
the Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge
An Electric Company Theatre production
Written by Kevin Kerr
Directed by Kim Collier
Choreographed by Crystal Pite
Scenography by Robert Gardiner
Cast:
Andrew Wheeler, Kristian Ayre, Gaelan Beatty, Josh Epstein, Julien Galipeau, Allan Morgan, Dawn Petten, Anastasia Phillips, Kyle Rideout, Juno Ruddell, Erin Wells, Jonathon Young
Production:
Costume Designer: Mara Gottler
Composer: Patrick Pennefather
Stage Manager: Jan Hodgson
Audience Advisory: significant nudity, gunshots (sound effect), strobe light.
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RECENT REVIEWS
"It's not often that a play fires explosively on all cylinders: aesthetic, dramatic and intellectual..." Jo Ledingham, Vancouver Courier
"In Studies in Motion – The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge the folks at the Electric Theatre Company...decided to bring into their mix the choreography of Vancouver's Crystal Pite. This was a felicitous decision and the result is a play that is dance. It is dance that is theatre. It is an amalgamation that is better than its two parts."
"During the play 11 of the 12 performers manage to take all their clothes off. It is done humorously in some instances but in most the effect is scientific and clinical and should not offend anybody. I plan to return with my 11-year-old granddaughter Rebecca as I think this is a play that she will relish in years to come."
"The folks of the Playhouse Theatre Company know a good thing when it comes along."
Alex Waterhouse Hayward
"...the real stars of Studies in Motion are director Kim Collier, scenographer Robert Gardiner and choreographer Crystal Pite. Indeed the opening sequence is one of the most engaging and breathtaking scenes I have witnessed in many years on stage and scene-after-scene the trio, with their talented actors, create compelling tableaus and reproductions of Muybridge's photographs through lighting, a multitude of scrims and an exacting placement of the actors."
"...a visual masterpiece the likes of which I have never seen before and for that reason alone it deserves to be seen."
Mark Robins, Gay Vancouver
2006 PRODUCTION REVIEWS
"A complex, thoughtfully layered script that makes us laugh and care about this deeply troubled man." The Globe and Mail
"The vision is extraordinary." The Georgia Straight
"A piece of theatre polished to brilliance, so complete and completely satisfying that this awe-inspiring oddity should be seen on major stages around the world." The Vancouver Sun
A smash hit at the 2006 PuSh Festival, Studies in Motion is a physically and visually explosive spectacle, inspired by the life of 19th Century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, whose work in instantaneous photography and exhaustive studies in animal and human locomotion would prefigure the invention of the cinema. The mysteries of the human body are laid bare, literally, in this sensational character study that explores the life, work and ghosts of Eadweard Muybridge. More
