Events - 2014

Whenever Jack Worthing slips away to London from his Hertfordshire estate he says he is going to see his (fictitious) wayward brother “Ernest”.

Whenever Jack Worthing slips away to London from his Hertfordshire estate he says he is going to see his (fictitious) wayward brother “Ernest”.

Auditions will take place on Tues. Sept. 9 and Wed. Sept. 10 in the Theatre of the Arts, ML 135 from 5:00-9:00 pm both days. Audition time sign-up sheets will appear on the Call Board in late August. Accepting a role in this play will be for academic credit.

Audition requirements:

The starting point for the performance is an investigation of the stock market - traditionally a place where probability, ritual and intuition collide.  Increasingly, it has become the domain of algorithmic approaches, where decisions are made at speeds far beyond human capacity to evaluate or intervene.  Eventually the scope of the project will expand to include other aspects of contemporary capitalist culture where algorithms are having an increasingly deterministic effect, where algorithms approach mythic status and shape all manner of relationships, notions of value and thought.

The Department of Drama and Speech Communication will host a symposium of invited experts to speak about mental health issues and awareness at the University of Waterloo and in the broader Waterloo region.

uWaterloo Drama presents From Solitary to Solidarity: Unravelling the Ligatures of Ashley Smith, a new project exploring issues of mental health in the context of the troubling story of Ashley Smith, a teenager who died at Grand Valley Institution for Women in 2007. The inquest on the circumstances surrounding her incarceration and eventual death recently declared her death a homicide. Ashley’s story has sparked a great deal of attention for its shocking exposure of Canada’s prison system and neglect of those suffering from mental illness.

Through the use of art, dance, writing and reflection this space aims to explore the state of mental health at our university and in the surrounding community.

Through the use of art, dance, writing and reflection this space aims to explore the state of mental health at our university and in the surrounding community.

Through the use of art, dance, writing and reflection this space aims to explore the state of mental health at our university and in the surrounding community.

Through the use of art, dance, writing and reflection this space aims to explore the state of mental health at our university and in the surrounding community.

This afternoon's shows

Signs of Life

Written & Directed by Derek McGill

Post-its (Notes on a Marriage)

Written by Paul Dooley and Winnie Holzman

Directed by Tyler Collins

Crows in Dream Time

Written & Directed by Sam Beuerle