CLEANSED

Alongside ten professional performing artists and five interns from the École supérieure de théâtre de l’UQAM, with the collaboration of the Hexagram network, the École Supérieure de Théâtre, and the Department of Dance, we are constructing an interdisciplinary and technological stage installation at the Agora Hydro-Québec, which is hosting for the first time in a UQAM doctoral context an immersive, multimedia theatrical performance in front of an audience seated in bleachers. 

This first Montreal production of Sarah Kane’s Purified, one of the most unplayable texts in the European repertoire of recent decades, was preceded by an extensive stage writing laboratory that brought the entire team together to collaborate and co-create around a mapped and archived stage composition methodology. 

Through a collaborative network of creation and training called “network du cowork,” this research-creation project led to the development of spatio-temporal orchestration parameters that enabled the interdisciplinary staging to be systematized and eventually resulted in a new form of staging and acting score. 

All of the creative documents have been digitized and placed in hyper-appendices to the written thesis: “Scenic composition in the face of the unplayable ‘Cleansed’: network system and the future of interdisciplinary theater.”