{"id":22731,"date":"2022-06-01T09:42:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T16:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=22731"},"modified":"2022-06-06T09:13:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T16:13:39","slug":"belfry-play-kindred-gets-real-about-adulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/06\/01\/belfry-play-kindred-gets-real-about-adulting\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfry play Kindred<\/em> gets real about adulting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Director Lauren Taylor is making her Belfry debut with her take on Rosa Dolores\u2019 Kindred: A Fairy Tale for Adults<\/i>. Taylor\u2014who is from Australia and has lived in Canada for 15 years\u2014says that the play focuses on the real struggles of being an adult.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe play deals with four characters, and they are all parents of young children, and each of them are experiencing separation or divorce,\u201d says Taylor. \u201cSo it\u2019s about how they negotiate their very busy lives and try to find themselves in the face of separation, and sort of go through the hardships of co-parenting and separation and what that means, and also coming out the other side of that, so working through all those difficult and complicated situations in order to move on with one\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor says that the meaning of her play means various things to each of her characters.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor some of the characters it means recognizing that they have a responsibility when they\u2019ve done things wrong, and for other characters it\u2019s about finding love again after such hardships.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kindred<\/em> is a different kind of fairy tale (photo by Angela Funk).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Taylor says the main thing she loves about directing is the collaborative nature of the craft.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things that I love about directing is this very sort of humbling process of being in a room with all my collaborators\u2014the designers, the technicians, the actors\u2014and we all work together to fulfill this common vision of putting the show on, but it\u2019s everybody\u2019s vision all put together, so it\u2019s kind of like making a big soup, and everyone sort of brings a different ingredient to the soup,\u201d she says. \u201cI guess I\u2019m the person who tastes the soup at various times and adjusts the seasonings. That\u2019s a kind of funny metaphor, but that\u2019s how I feel about directing, and I love it because, as I said, it\u2019s a very humbling process for me to see everyone\u2019s vision come together and emerge and really shine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor says that her directing style is heavily influenced by her past teachers and other directors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say that I\u2019m very influenced by people who have been my teachers in the past,\u201d she says. \u201cOne is a woman from Australia named Jenny Kemp, and she\u2019s a director. There\u2019s another director from Australia called Bruce Gladwin, and both of those people’s approach to making work is very deeply inclusive and very process-based, so it sort of means everyone in the room gets to collaborate together. Some people view directing as you being the person who\u2019s just the boss of everything all the time and everyone just has to do what you say and those two directors influenced me in a way that is the total reverse of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor says that the best plays are the ones that reach their audiences and stick in their minds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been a handful of plays that I\u2019ve loved so much when I\u2019ve seen them, because they\u2019ve really reached me and stayed in my memory,\u201d says Taylor. \u201cOne of them would be from a long, long time ago, seeing Ex Machina, Robert Lepage\u2019s company, do The Seven Streams of the River Ota<\/i>. The river Ota is a river that runs through Hiroshima in Japan, which was bombed by the Americans in World War II. This play was like eight hours long, and I saw it at a festival, and I remember thinking I\u2019ve never seen anything like that before. It had a dinner break and two little coffee breaks as well, there was seven one-hour stories that made up the entire experience of the play. Everything was done so exquisitely and the set was incredible, it was quite amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taylor says that she wants the audience to be able to relate to Kindred<\/em> and also to just have a fun outing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that people will come away having had a good time out,\u201d says Taylor. \u201cBut I hope that they get a bit of hope, the idea of atonement, and joy, and relief, and also just maybe a nice time with each other at the theatre after this tricky two years that we\u2019ve had. It would be nice to feel like we\u2019re a community coming back together again. That what I would hope for.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kindred: A Fairy Tale for Adults
\n<\/em>Various times, until Sunday June 12
\n<\/span>Various prices, The Belfry
\nbelfry.bc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director Lauren Taylor is making her Belfry debut with her take on Rosa Dolores\u2019 Kindred: A Fairy Tale for Adults. Taylor\u2014who is from Australia and has lived in Canada for 15 years\u2014says that the play focuses on the real struggles of being an adult. \u201cThe play deals with four characters, and they are all parents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22738,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22731\/revisions\/22738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}