FOR THIS PROJECT WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF:

IMPACT 2023

Launched in 2009, the International Multicultural Platform for Alternative Contemporary Theatre (IMPACT) is a biennial international theatre festival and industry conference. IMPACT 21 celebrated the seventh iteration of the festival with productions from Chile, Tunisia, Australia, India, Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, and Waterloo Region.

- PROJECT DESCRIPTION -

Combining first-hand testimony from survivors in Holland, and Toronto, as well as over five years of research, this show highlights the ongoing gay purge in Chechnya while also reflecting similar purges being carried out against Queer people.

Through text and movement, we follow four characters who embody interconnected oppression, forced displacement, inter-generational colonization, and the desire to resist and be seen.

- Development HISTORY -

In the fall of 2018, Page1 Theatre was awarded funding from both **Canada Council for the Arts** and **The Waterloo Arts Fund**. Two workshops were completed in May and December of 2019.

In January 2023, Isaac and Pam spoke to a survivor living in Toronto for over six weeks. A staged-reading was then presented in June 2022 as part of Eastern Front Theatre's STAGES Festival in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

The project was workshopped over six weeks (August / September 2023) before being presented as a work in progress at IMPACT 2023.

PERFORMANCE DATES:

Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 9:00 PM

Friday September 29th, 2023 @ 9:00 PM

Kitchener City Hall