Stacey Christodoulou

Theatre

Stacey Christodoulou is an important innovator in Quebec theatre. In 1991, she founded The Other Theatre, which has tackled subjects from fractals to fascism, physics to pop culture, and television to terrorism. The plays take place in theatres, warehouses, lofts, galleries, moving elevators, and shopping mall windows. Often collectively written, the scripts usually evolve out of discussion, improvisation, experimentation, and places “other than theatre.” The Other Theatre describes itself as a think tank for performance. All of this experimenting has yielded concrete results, with Christodoulou praised for her work in both francophone and anglophone circles. She was nominated as the Masques Awards’ Best Director for Pre-Paradise, Sorry Now (the first English-speaking Quebecer to be nominated outside the Best Anglophone Play category). In 1999, Human Collision/Atomic Reaction played the prestigious Festival de Théâtre des Amériques and went on to win Montreal English Critics Circle Awards for best production and director. (PF)

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