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Home Is A Beautiful Word

Tue. January 7th 2014 - Sun. January 19th 2014 Belfry Theatre $25

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Home Is A Beautiful Word:

Part play, part documentary, Belfry Theatre premieres new piece about homelessne...
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Tue. January 7th 2014 - Sun. January 19th 2014 + Add to Calendar Belfry Theatre (All Ages)
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Tuesday - Saturdays at 8 pm
Wednesday Matinee (January 15) at 1 pm
Saturday Matinees at 4 pm
Sunday Matinees at 2 pm Single Tickets $25

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Belfry Theatre
The Belfry Theatre is Victoria's largest contemporary adult ...
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Physical tickets at: 250-385-6815, https://tickets.belfry.bc.ca/TheatreManager/1/tmEvent/tmEvent757.html

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Part play, part documentary, Belfry Theatre premieres new piece about homelessness as told by the people of Greater Victoria

From January 7 - 19, 2014 the Belfry Theatre will premiere Home Is A Beautiful Word, a new piece of verbatim theatre about homelessness in Victoria. Verbatim theatre uses transcripts of interviews to create a play. Playwright / journalist Joel Bernbaum interviewed over 500 people from all walks of life for Home Is A Beautiful Word. Using the transcripts from those interviews, Joel has crafted a play that looks at homelessness from dozens of angles, creating a piece that is, by turns, moving, enlightening, funny and surprising.

A graduate of Carleton University’s School of Journalism, Joel wrote his Master’s thesis on Verbatim Theatre’s Relationship to Journalism. In creating Home Is A Beautiful Word he had conversations in grade four classrooms, senior citizens homes, businesses, and homeless shelters. Eventually he went door-to-door in neighbourhoods throughout the region.

Verbatim theatre was created in the 1960’s and it has been used to create plays like Frost/Nixon (subsequently made into the multi-award-winning film by Ron Howard), The Laramie Project (a play and film about the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming) and Veda Hille and Bill Richardson’s musical, Do You Want What I Have Got: A Craigslist Cantata (workshopped at the Belfry’s 2010 SPARK Festival and currently touring Canada). You can read Joel’s article on verbatim theatre and creating Home Is A Beautiful Word on our website (http://www.belfry.bc.ca/news/said/)

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1291 Gladstone Avenue
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