German theatre group Rimini Protokoll, which recently performed in Vancouver's Cultural Olympiad, will be coming to Toronto.
The Luminato festival unveiled is 2010 theatre and dance offerings Monday, providing the first hints of this year's three curatorial threads: a cross-cultural celebration of the diva, an exploration of East-West dualities, and a look at artistic expressions of human rights. The festival runs from June 11 to 20 in Toronto.
Alongside the previously announced Prima Donna, the debut opera from Rufus Wainwright, are a pair of theatrical world premieres: The Africa Trilogy, Volcano Theatre's attempt to break down Western perceptions of Africa; and One Pure Longing: Tahirih's Search, about a 19th-century Iranian poet who boldly shed her veil in 1848.
German theatre group Rimini Protokoll brings its participatory blend of video gaming and live theatre to Toronto, having recently appeared in Vancouver's Cultural Olympiad. And Homage, by Halifax's 2b theatre company, examines artists' rights, chronicling the real-life demolition of a work by Canadian sculptor Haydn Davies.
The dance program features the Canadian premiere of Two Faced Bastard, which simultaneously mounts two shows on either side of a slatted screen and eventually offers audience members the choice of switching sides to see what they're missing, as well as Julia Domna, about the wife of Roman emperor Septimius Severus, by Syria's Enana Dance Theatre.