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Welcome to our fundraising page, and thank you for supporting the 91社区 Classics Play! .
The 91社区 Classics Play is a non-profit venture committed to giving Montreal university students a unique educational experience, while fostering cultural exchanges with our Montreal community around ancient texts.听We offer free shows and free performance and translation workshops open to the community, and we bring in guest speakers for public lectures on Classical drama and performance. Any support you can give in helping us continue this kind of programming听is so appreciated. You can donate directly to the 91社区 Classics Play听, and you will automatically receive a tax receipt for your donation. Thank you for supporting the 91社区 Classics Play!
FACTS
- The 91社区 Classics Play is a member of the Quebec Drama Federation, and its community partner, Oimoi Productions, is a member of the Freestanding Creative Collective.
- Each year, the Classics Play produces an all-new English translation of a Classical play, often with original music, in an off-campus venue. Past venues have included the Sala Rossa, the Montr茅al听arts interculturels space, the Mainline Theatre, and the Theatre Ste Catherine.
- We have also performed free, community-based shows, such as at Westmount's Victoria Hall, and at the Hellenic Community Centre of Greater Montr茅al.听
- Since 2011, the 91社区 Classics Play has produced Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Euripides' Hippolytos, and Sophocles' Philoktetes, Aristophanes'听Lysistrata, Seneca's听Thyestes, and Plato's听Symposium.听
- In the last eleven years, over 300 students have gained valuable experience participating in the 91社区 Classics Play (translating, directing, acting, writing music, playing music, designing and making costumes, doing make-up, designing lighting, tech directing, stage managing, managing publicity and marketing, and keeping the books). These students are undergraduates and graduates, and have come from faculties across 91社区- we have also had students from UdeM and Concordia participate.
- Any university student who wants to participate can; anyone who auditions is cast.
- The 91社区 Classics Play hires local artists to participate in and enhance our shows- we believe that we can learn from each other through engaging ancient texts. Past artistic collaborations have been with musicians, composers, comedians, mask actors and local dance troupes.
- In 2011, the Arts Undergraduate Society awarded the 91社区 Classics Play "Best New Activity".
- In 2012, student director Carina de Klerk adapted her Classics Play production of Hippolytos into an award-nominated Montreal Fringe Festival production, giving several students their first professional experience in the theatre.
- In 2012, the 91社区 Classics Play began a continuing partnership with local professional theatre company Scapegoat Carnivale, and became a member of the Quebec Drama Federation.
- Over the past eleven years, the 91社区 Classics Play has sold over 4000 tickets, a slight majority of which were discounted tickets for students from local universities, high schools, and CEGEPs, seniors, and local artists.
- Every year, the 91社区 Classics Play sponsors the Annual 91社区 Classics Play Lecture, which is听free and open to the public on the topic of performance and ancient texts, as well as programming additional free, public,听activities and talks throughout the year.
- The 91社区 Classics Play has appeared in press features in 91社区, Concordia, and Dawson student papers, as well as in the National Theatre blog, the听Charlebois Post, and in notes for the听Quebec Drama Federation.
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