UpStart 14: Festival of Innovative Theatre Opens TODAY

[Janelle Rainville]

UpStart 14: Festival of Innovative Theatre OPENS TODAY!
[UpStart Festival poster]The Upstart Festival is a bi-annual one act play festival run by UWaterloo Drama students presenting original and innovative works of theatre. This year all 8 shows have been produced, directed and acted by uWaterloo students with seven out of the eight plays being original works. Upstart 14 features a wide range of performance styles including comedy, drama, movement-based theatre and commedia dell'arte.
A list of the shows and their description are as follows:

The First by William Innes is a collaboration of music and bodies, exploring the highs and lows of potential love.
Watch trailer on YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P7hYyCjbGQ>

Less Than Three by Jackie Mahoney is an exploration of the endless list of questions we have about love. Told through the use of true stories, it is a reminder that when it comes to love, sometimes the best answer is one that ends with another question mark.
Watch trailer on YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_LNIGi2HLg>

Fake Plastic Trees by Alan Shonfield is a play about semantics, metaphors, Hamlet, Keanu Reeves, love and Margaret Atwood.
Watch trailer on YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wGpSXxCS2E>

Signs of Life by Derek McGill follows Brock, who seems to have no positive outlook on his awkward teenage life. But all he really needs is just a good lesson in driving, a bit of confidence, and to learn to follow the signs: the signs of life!
Watch trailer on YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG3N2d7Pr3Y>

Post Its (Notes on a Marriage) an adaptation by Tyler Collins features two lives that intersect with one another by their families, friends, and lifestyle over the last fifty years. The only consistent means of communication between them, however, has been Post-It sticky notes.
Watch trailer on YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3810mRoQ0A>

The Testimony of Sister Veronica by Laura McVey follows a young nun at the height of the Spanish Inquisition who claims to have received visions of Christ commanding her to dissolve her convent and go out into the wider world to preach.
Watch trailer on YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FK5d6r5bSw>

Bambino by Kelly Hornung uses the traditional archetypes from the Italian commedia dell'arte, and explores personal identity and what can happen when people are faced with change in their lives.
Watch trailer on YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlwxfIzOpm4>

Crows in Dream Time (the biggest Murder) by Sam Beuerle is a work of highly physical and text-based theatre, exploring the way dreams and thoughts can be portrayed on the stage.
Watch trailer on YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONvCjPNJF6Q>

Come out and enjoy a wide variety of theatre, and support original, student created works at Upstart 14: Festival of Innovative Theatre!

Location
Studio 180, Hagey Hall

Tickets
$12 General
$8 Students & Seniors
$5 eyeGO
Box Office: 519.888.4908

https://uwaterloo.ca/drama-speech-communication/performances-2013-14
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