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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">I am writing to bring the Grande Prairie Century Play project to your attention. As the Artistic Director of this project, I am seeking researchers and participants who would like to be involved
in any aspect of this 2 year project. This project is my sabbatical creative/research project. </span></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">The GP Century Play follows the tradition of the Community Plays developed by the Colway Theatre Trust (now Claque Theatre) in the 1980's in the UK</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">.
The occasion for the Century Play project is Grande Prairie's 100th Anniversary. We are mobilizing to create an original community theatrical celebration that will be performed outdoors June 12 to 15, 2014. This is the first community play project in Alberta
(following the Colway Theatre Trust model) though Canada has seen community plays produced in Ontario (Jumblies Theatre), Saskatchewan (Common Weal), and BC (Vancouver Moving Theatre, Runaway Moon Theatre). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">I particularly hope that graduate students might be interested in becoming involved as researchers or interns in various aspects of the project – design, music, choreography, acting, directing,
dramaturgy, stage management, technical … the possibilities are open to explore. We will be entering Phase 3 of the project in September, 2013, which is focused towards script development and community capacity building in terms of performance skills, which
will include puppet building, stilt walking, lantern making, voice, movement, to name a few. Phase 4, the production phase, will begin in January, 2014. </span></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">There will be three outdoor stages and the performance will be processional in nature. The play is connected very much to the site of the performance in Muskoseepi Park which is the centre of the
community, ancestral land, and has seen many historic events. Our focus also goes to the people who are arriving daily in Grande Prairie – from other parts of Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America. We have an increasingly multi-cultural population
and the mean age of Grande Prairie residents in 27 years. There are a lot of youth here and the performance styles will reflect this reality.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">
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<div>I am happy to answer all inquiries. Please visit <u>www.gpcenturyplay.org</u> to see what is happening as the project progresses. </div>
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<div>Many thanks,</div>
<div>Annie</div>
<div>Artistic Director</div>
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<div><u>anismith@telus.net</u></div>
<div>780-357-1503</div>
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<div>Annie Smith, PhD</div>
Professor of Drama <br>
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10726 – 106 Avenue<br>
Grande Prairie AB T8V 4C4<br>
Office: L222<br>
</span><span style="font-size:12pt"><i>Phone: 780-539-2882<br>
Email: <a href="asmith@gprc.ab.ca">asmith@gprc.ab.ca</a><br>
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</span></font><font color="#808000"><span style="font-size:11pt">“It is interesting to ask: what are the limits you have set for your life? Where are the lines of these limits? Why do you think you cannot go beyond them? How real are they? Did you construct
these limits out of anxiety and fear? If you were to go beyond your most solidly set limits, what difference would it make to your life? What are you missing by remaining confined?” John O’Donohue.<br>
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<p align="CENTER"><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#800080"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><i>Drama interprets the world. <br>
Come to GPRC for Drama <br>
and find yourself and the world.<br>
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