We are devoted to the development of new plays by Yukon theatre creators and the professional production of these plays for Yukon audiences.
24 Hour Playwriting Competition
November 5&6, 2011
Westmark Whitehorse Hotel
Yukon playwrights have 24 hours to begin, refine or complete a new play.
24 Hour Playwriting Cabaret
November 25, 2011
Yukon Inn Fireside Room
At the popular 24 Hour Cabaret, audiences will see scenes created at the recent 24 Hour Playwriting Competition.
Pivot Theatre Festival
January 22-29, 2012
Yukon Arts Centre, Old Firehall, Yukon Inn Fireside Room
The Pivot Theatre Festival presents local, national and international performances, with a balance of ground-breaking, popular and niche performance. This year’s line-up includes:
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Embrace by Hazel Venzon
120 minutes
Sunday, Jan. 22, 6 PM, Public Dress Rehearsal
Tuesday, Jan. 24, 6 PM
Thursday, Jan. 26, 6 PM
Tickets: FREE. Reserve your seats in advance at BodyScents
Suite 9-106 MAIN ST, WHITEHORSE, YT
Store Hours 10 - 6
There will be free food and a cash bar during show.
No late comers allowed.
The Canadian Filipino Association of Yukon will be accepting cash/cheque donations for the Typhoon Sendong tragedy. http://yukonfilipino.com/
Location: Yukon Inn Fireside Room
Filipino-Canadian Hazel Venzon and the Whitehorse Filipino community invite you to experience their culture in an intimate and revealing way. Part performance, part feast, part karaoke, it explores the immigrant concept of “home." Commissioned by Nakai Theatre.
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Living Tall
by Mike Geither, with Ker Wells
Saturday, Jan. 28, 8 pm Adult $22, Senior $18
Sunday, Jan. 29, 8 pm Adult $22, Senior $18
Location: Old Fire Hall
Buy Tickets here
Ker Wells, one of Canada’s most accomplished proponents of physical theatre plays a motivational speaker sharing his secrets on how to increase sales and earn respect, then lets slip some of his more personal secrets as his well-planned seminar careens off the rails.
This show is suitable for adults only. No late comers can be allowed in after show begins.
See a small part of the show here http://vimeo.com/8685944
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MacHomer by Rick Miller
Show presented by: CKRW
80 minutes. No intermission
Friday, Jan. 27, 7 pm
Friday, Jan. 27, 9:30 pm
Location: Yukon Arts Centre
Adult $27 Child $10 Student $10 Senior $22
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Characters from The Simpsons series populate this imaginatively staged version of Shakespeare’s tragedy MacBeth. Rick Miller has performed MacHomer to capacity crowds across Canada, the U.S., U.K., Australia and New Zealand.
See MacHomer trailer here
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Almighty Voice and His Wife
Co-presented with Yukon Arts Centre
100 min. With Intermission
Wednesday, Jan. 25, 4 PM and 8 PM
Location: Yukon Arts Centre
4 PM matinee: Adult $19, Child/Senior $14, ArtRush $5
8 PM: Adult $29, Child/Senior $24, ArtRush $5
Celebrated aboriginal poet/playwright Daniel David Moses’ seminal play recounts the story of the 19th century Saskatchewan Cree who became legend and martyr... and then proceeds to retell it as a minstrel show.
"Native Earth online" http://www.nativeearth.ca/ne/
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Broken by Brian Fidler
Co-production with Ramshackle Theatre
September 2012
Yukon Arts Centre
Nine year-old William struggles to understand why his beloved Grandpa Ken, a heroic World War II photographer, is mentally and physically deteriorating. Written by and starring Brian Fidler and inspired by his own family history, this play has been in development by Nakai and Ramshackle Theatre for 3 years.
Homegrown Theatre Festival
May 8 – 13, 2012
Guild Hall
Held every second year, Homegrown is the place to see the breadth and depth of talent among Yukon creators. Over 6 days audiences can see approximately 20 new shows created by up to 100 emerging and mature Yukon theatre artists, who create their work with Nakai’s artistic and logistical support.
Commissions
Five artists are at various stages of their multi-year new play development commissions. The artists will be announced in September.
Playlab
Dates TBA
With internationally known dramaturges, local playwrights develop new scripts.
