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‘LOOK UP’ by Open Pit Theatre (3 Kid-friendly performances)
March 8 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
LIMITED CAPACITY – Each performance accommodates 9 people
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Sat, March 8
performances at 11:00, 12:00, 1:00
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OPEN PIT THEATRE
Open Pit Theatre was founded in 2011 with the desire to create new and innovative theatre shows that explore contemporary northern themes and alternative approaches to making theatre. Co-Artistic Directors Genevieve Doyon and Jessica Hickman have created many original plays including the verbatim piece Busted Up: A Yukon Story and a mask and puppetry show called Radio Silence which have both toured the country. Open Pit Theatre is currently gearing up for their first international tour to Osaka, Japan in August 2025.
LOOK UP
Look Up is a series of intimate short performances which combines live visual animation, storytelling and live foley soundscape. Look Up aspires to bring everyone back to the simple magic of storytelling. Everything you will see is analog and happening right then and there. There will be no “play” button to hit, and no computers in sight.
Conceived and created by Geneviève Doyon
Performed by Alita Powell and Geneviève Doyon
Creative Collaborator: Brian Fidler
Visual Designers: Virginie Hamel, Jessica Hickman
Sound Design: Hannah Mazurek
Set Design: Selene Vakharia
Things to know
Two short pieces will be shown at every performance.
Friday evening is geared towards adults
Saturday matinee are geared towards children aged 5 and up.
Audiences will need to lie down on mats on the ground and get back up again.
Funded by
Lotteries Yukon
New Horizons for Seniors, Government of Canada
Sponsored by the Guild
The Guild Hall
Thank you!
Copper Ridge Place
Yukon Arts Centre
The Downtown Hotel
Open Pit Theatre’s board of directors: Caili Steel, Valerie Herdes, Kinesi Mills, Nicole Schafenacker, Josée Bergeron
The seed for the show Look Up was planted when Genevieve saw a drawing on the ceiling above her hospital bed in 2017. That simple drawing of a sunset accompanied by the words “This will not last forever” resonated with her in a profound way. Years later, she approached visual artist and dear friend Virginie Hamel to finally start tackling the creative concept that had inhabited her ever since: “Let’s make a show for audiences lying on their backs”.
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