Five playwrights will be paid $2,000 a month for 10 months to write and develop a stage production with the help of an advisor and other theatre professionals.
“I love theatre because of its immediacy, because of its intensity, because of its capacity for things to go wrong. There’s just something about the adrenaline of throwing yourself into that situation that I love[…] I like the humanity of it all, I guess. I’m a really big fan of things that are really physical, and also really rough, and vulnerable, where mistakes can be made, and it’s just messy.” Rhiannon Collett’s raw, human and intensely vulnerable plays have been breaking down barriers, resisting binaries, and providing uncomfortable jolts of reality for nearly five years. After living in Montreal and Toronto, and taking their work abroad, Collett has returned to Vancouver as their work — and life — enters a new phase. The stories and characters they have left scattered behind them are leaving a trail of possibility, refusal and creative resistance.Collett describes themself as a coffee filter: taking the grounds from