The Runner

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Created in Israel, The Runner, will be a solo, research/improvisational-based theatre creation. As the actor and writer, I hope to shadow a member of this organisation to explore how this work affects his daily life, religious beliefs and perception of death. With this project I will also question my role as an artist and confront the need I have to use volatile socio-political environments as the inspiration for my theatre. An initial trip to Israel in 2009 is the first of three creation periods, and will be an investigative, fact-finding mission to generate material. It will be directed by the Georgian director Gocha Kapanadze, and will be created over three creation periods. The Runner will have performances in Canada, Israel and the Republic of Georgia in 2011. The primary characters in The Runner will be a member of this organisation and myself, as well as a collection of supporting characters that are the people woven into our lives. I envision the final production as being a one-actor play, physically and movement based and with text performed in Hebrew and English.