Togetherness

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Concordia Theatre Department, Public Performance Project

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Facilitator: Gabriela Petrov

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Ensemble: Mitchell Aboud, Ethan Baah-Boakye, HD Chevalier, Lou Costil, Dario Esposito, Safia Azahra Hidara, Ethan Iverson, Duchesse Kifoula-Benie, Riley McManus-Jarand, Anita Orsel, June Queen, Sophie Ritchie, Thomas Toplis, Mazzy Toporoski, Tichina Williams​

Assistant Facilitator: Juliana Theodoropoulos

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For this ensemble course outcome, students explored “togetherness” as a methodology to investigate The Firebugs, a play from 1953 by Swiss playwright Max Frisch. Using ensemble-based performance practices, we worked to create the supportive conditions for each performer to find and inhabit their place within an ensemble. This text explores how suspicion, denial, and numbness can spread in communities, like fire. A performance work emerged to reflect the ensemble’s discoveries from this text and its themes. By drawing on embodied practices like the Six Viewpoints, Moment Work and Body-Mind Centering, the ensemble works to build a foundation of somatic awareness and collective experimentation. ​

 

November 2025

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Photo credit: Daniel Yota

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