Category Archives: Spotlight on Students

The first show of the first Devised Theatre Festival is outLET, created, performed and produced by The Catalyst Project.
outLET is a 50-minute multimedia experience that explores the consequences of violating the social contracts that govern our lives. Five young people come to a house of illusions to enact their deepest desires – dreams of power, sex, violence, death, and immortality. But what happens when the game changes, the rules disappear, and fantasy becomes reality?
outLETwill run in ACE 207 on:
Thursday, March 14 at 7:30 (PWYC preview) |
Friday, March 15 at 7:30 |
Saturday, March 16 at 2:00 and 7:30 | Email yorkdt2013@gmail.com to reserve a ticket and you can pick it up/pay at the door.

The Third Year Devised Theatre students presented their Winter presentation Adapted March 12th, at 8:00 p.m. in ACE 207. The class was divided into four ensembles each looking at an adaptation of a filmed version of a staged show.

The Third Year BFA Actors presented Job by Oskar Kokoschka, directed by Alison Humphrey (MFA Directing 2013), last week in CFT 139. Check out our photo gallery!

York University’s very first Fourth-Year Devised Theatre class held their first workshop performances. Having been split into four different theatre companies this year, they’ve been working since September towards their goal of a professional show by the end of the school year. Penumbra Collective and Theatre Zoetic performed on November 23rd, while Affinity Theatre and The Catalyst Project performed on November 30th in Accolade East Studios 207 and 209. These workshop performances are the material that the 4th year DT students have created so far.

York’s Third Year Devised Theatre (DT) students have been hard at work in the studios for weeks to create their first publicly performed unmounted pieces to be presented on Tuesday, November 20th at 7:00 p.m. Since beginning the DT program last year, the third year class has been developing, exploring and honing their creative skills in collective creation. Their assignment, entitled The Interview Projects, was to create a piece based around the performance of a pre-existing interview which would be used as the primary text of the show.

Theatre @ York's 2012-13 Season opened Oct 23 with Howard Barker's Wounds to the Face, featuring the Fourth Year Acting ensemble, directed by South African director-teacher Geoffrey Hyland (MFA 1994). For more on the play and the director, see our story here. The show featured the work of BFA Production/Design students, Vincent Perri (Set), Amelia Taverner (Costume), Garret Levine (Lighting), Wes McKenzie (Sound), and Stage Management by Natasha Rodmell. Take a look behind the scenes at the work of the cast and crew, building and rehearsing the show. For audience reaction (hint: they loved it!) read our Behind the Scenes Blog entry.