{"id":17876,"date":"2019-07-10T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=17876"},"modified":"2019-07-05T12:53:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T19:53:16","slug":"victoria-theatre-company-puts-local-talent-to-use-in-constellations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/07\/10\/victoria-theatre-company-puts-local-talent-to-use-in-constellations-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria theatre company puts local talent to use in Constellations<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Local theatre company hapax theatre\u2014lower case intentional\u2014is named for a linguistic term that dates back to ancient Greece. A \u201chapax legomenon\u201d is a word that appears only once within a certain context\u2014for example, in a play or an entire body of work. A hapax legomenon can be very mysterious and difficult to interpret, since it appears so rarely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy husband has a background in linguistics and I loved the idea of incorporating some of his background into an idea I have about theatre,\u201d says hapax theatre co-founder Heather Jarvie. \u201cWhen we are in a theatre, that moment only exists once\u2014that audience, that energy, that performance, no matter how many times you try to replicate it, it will never be the same, and it\u2019s part of the magic that exists in the theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Constellations<\/em> is a two-person show with emerging local talent (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Jarvie and her husband Chad Laidlaw started the company\u2014then known as Jarvolution Theatre\u2014in 2014, but that wasn\u2019t the beginning of her career. As the child of an artistic family, with a mother who sang opera, jazz, and blues, Jarvie first stepped onto the stage early. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy theatre story itself is very long and windy to get to where we are now, but I\u2019ve always been involved in the arts\u2014dance, music, theatre\u2014from a very, very young age,\u201d she says. \u201cI was actually on stage as supernumerary when I was 14 for Pacific Opera Victoria in La Traviata<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As both the co-founder of the company and the director of Constellations<\/em>, a celebrated play written by English playwright Nick Payne, Jarvie makes room in her work for local, emerging performers and artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is our mandate to provide opportunities to emerging artists,\u201d says Jarvie. \u201cThere\u2019s, unfortunately, a perception for a lot of young artists in this city that you can study here but there\u2019s no work here, that you have to go to Vancouver or to Toronto, and we wanted to encourage people and remind young artists that there are opportunities here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Constellations<\/em> is a two-person show starring Brianna Wiens and Brendan Elwell. Elwell is a recent UVic grad; stage manager Taylor Guidotti and composer and sound artist Aaron Smail both just finished their third year there. Jarvie says that the emerging artists featured in the show are all doing amazing jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m amazed every single day that I get to work with them, the talent and level of expertise and joy that they bring to this project,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m considering myself very lucky to have the chance to work with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Constellations<\/em> is a rich story of love told through the lens of possibilities; it takes place across the multiverse. In Jarvie\u2019s interpretation, the action plays out over eight scenes\u2014or snapshots, as she calls them. Every snapshot is a revelation in character and sets up a series of potential repercussions, all while exploring a theoretical framework of physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cConstellations<\/em>, in a nutshell, is a story about a relationship between Marianne, who is an astrophysicist, and Roland, who is a beekeeper,\u201d says Jarvie. \u201cIt seems on the surface that Marianne\u2019s connection to string theory is it, that\u2019s all we get\u2014but the life of a bee, it\u2019s so simple and so perfect that it completely contradicts this possible chaos that exists within string theory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having invested many hours meticulously dissecting all the various possibilities, Jarvie has come to the conclusion that the promise of romantic love might not be the most important part of the play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile it may present as a love story, it\u2019s about so much more than that,\u201d she says of Constellations<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s about how we treat other people. It\u2019s about caring and compassion, and love doesn\u2019t have to mean romantic love. It can be the support you get from a best friend, it can be a kind word or a hand on the shoulder\u2026 Sure, it\u2019s a love story, but whether or not that\u2019s romantic or friendship is completely irrelevant, because this is about how they support each other and how they get through these multiverses together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Constellations<\/em>
8 pm Friday, July 12, and Saturday, July 13
$15, Intrepid Theatre
hapaxtheatre.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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