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Verbatim play Being Here looks at refugees in Canada and their sponsors
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Publishing date: Mar 14, 2021 • March 14, 2021 • 4 minute read • Joel Bernbaum collected stories from refugees across Canada and developed them into Being Here: The Refugee Project. Supplied
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Joel Bernbaum’s got guts. He is pursuing a career in two of the most challenged employment sectors journalism and theatre oh, and in the middle of a pandemic.
The 39-year-old actor, director, PhD student and former CBC associate producer is bringing his latest crossover project to a screen near you, starting Tuesday. It’s called Being Here: The Refugee Project.
Everything his actors needed for Being Here: The Refugee Project was right there on the page. Cast members were tasked with finding nuance within the “verbatim” play, based on interviews with refugees who have come to Canada. But they were asked to perform it as is, no exceptions. “I told the actors they could not make ‘actor’ choices here,” Shumata said. “They had to be a vessel for the words.” The Belfry, which has produced a filmed version for streaming, will celebrate the world première of Being Here with six streaming performances starting next week. Though it was shot and edited several weeks ago, the impact lingers.
‘Theatre of the Now’ brings community together
Sum Theatre gives people food for thought about current events
Award-winning hip hop performing artist Eekwol (Lindsay Knight) opened the Sum Theatre’s “The Last Sunday” with a bang. She performed a short rap about ‘fighting the fight’ against oppression, which set the tone and stage for the fourth episode of the season at the Broadway Theatre in Saskatoon.
About 50 to 75 people watched the show via YouTube and shared their comments and reactions to the show in the chat window. The theatre only had the production crew and guest artists.
Artistic director Joel Bernbaum said the point of the evening was to take people down the path of understanding of the past month’s events, such as an insurrection (Capitol Hill protests) and a new American president.
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