Barrie/Toronto: The WOW Collection
A festival featuring Talk is Free Theatre, Zuppa Theatre, DLT, TranscenDance Project, and more
When: March 18 — May 17; check schedule for details
Where: Varies
Price: $15–180; a limited number of VIP ‘Choose Your W(OWn) Adventure’ multi-ticket packs are available
Tags: #immersivetheatre, #festival, #sitespecific, #experimental, #ContactAdvisory, #ContentAdvisory, #MobilityAdvisory (see below)
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The WOW Collection is unlike any other festival in the world. Spanning across two cities — Toronto and Barrie, some performances will even transport the audience between cities as the story unfolds. The immersive and experiential nature of the performances allow the audience to make their own adventure, or shape their own narrative as they explore productions in various non-traditional venues such as, a library, a public bus and their own hotel room during an overnight stay for The North American premiere of The Curious Voyage.
The Curious Voyage: A two-day, two city theatrical journey, Are you who you think you are? What if you turned into someone you never imagined you could be? You are the protagonist. this is your story.
Museum of Fiction: The Museum of Fiction proposes a dialogue regarding the shift that dramatic action can provoke in a museum-collection-conservation-exhibition-time system.
Foreign Radical: Thirty participants enter an intriguing theatrical game that explores security, profiling, freedom of expression, and privacy in the age of cyber-surveillance.
The Archive of Missing Things: Audience members, equipped with iPads, headsets and notebooks, attempt to decode an online mystery. Clues are everywhere, but there’s only 90 minutes to decode them.
Tales of an Urban Indian: Tales of an Urban Indian is staged on a moving city bus, which drives around the city and visits locations matching those of the play’s plot.
For Both Resting and Breeding: Set in the year 2150, humans have become gender-neutral Characters dress the same, style their hair mostly the same, and use similar mannerisms
DreamScape: DreamScape is a sensorial experience for toddlers between the ages of 2 to 4 years old, in a thoughtfully created environment.
A Grimm Night: In A Grimm Night, TranscenDance Project’s newest creation, audiences are welcomed, masked and set free to roam a mysterious building on Dupont Street.
In the Time Before the Immediate Present and the Time Immediately to Follow V2: In an effort to explore both decision fatigue of contemporary society and authorship in contemporary dance practice, the movement material in this piece was first created by randomly generating movement phrases written in the python programming language which in turn was interpreted by the dancers.
Voices From The Suitcase — An Intercultural Project: Follow a group of exciting newcomer artists as they lead you through their lives and the spaces they occupy in a city they’re just discovering.
Thousand Beginnings: Thousand Beginnings is a physical and sensorial performance about two women on their quest for understanding themselves amidst inherited ancestral patterns.
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Contact Level: Varies
Content Advisories: Varies
Please see specific advisories on site for The Curious Voyage, which includes traveling between two cities.