Producing Ground-Breaking Artistic Events

 

• The Servant of Two Masters: inaugural production of Ottawa’s first open-air theatre
• Turandot: first-ever collaboration integrating Commedia dell’Arte and Peking Opera
• The Wedding: first dance-theatre piece inspired by a shadow puppet play, in collaboration with Indonesian Wayang Wong artists
• Kolam: Ottawa’s first multi-disciplinary workshop bringing together dancers, actors and percussionists to explore Sri Lankan masks and dance-theatre
• Mask and Indigenous Storytelling: Canada’s first workshop in this field with Cree playwright Curtis Peeteetuce, Laurie Steven, and Ottawa’s the Four Nations Theatre Exchange
• The Other Path Podcast: Canada’s top fantasy audio drama series, involving theatre, fantasy fiction and folkore artists
• Myth, Lore and Stories of Wonder: festival featuring culturally diverse practitioners of theatre, dance, storytelling, visual art, and music
• A Theatrical Land Acknowledgment: Canada’s first, with Métis artist Suzanne Keeptwo and Odyssey’s young company
• The Blue Demon: first collaboration of Sri Lankan Kolam artists with artists outside Sri Lanka
• The World of Masks: creation of the first digital resource center for theatrical mask