{"id":47437,"date":"2021-03-16T11:32:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T15:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=47437"},"modified":"2021-03-19T11:37:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:37:43","slug":"murmures-comes-to-your-screen-this-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/murmures-comes-to-your-screen-this-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"MURMUReS comes to your screen this Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tintamarre, Mount Allison University\u2019s award-winning bilingual theatre troupe, has created what director-author Alex Fancy calls \u201ca dramatic comedy for 2021.\u201d MURMUReS will be staged remotely March 18th, 19th and 20th at 7:30 PM Atlantic Standard Time.<\/p>\n

CHMA spoke with associate directors No\u00e9mie Chiasson and Caitlin O\u2019Connor to find out a bit more about the play. You can hear that interview here:<\/p>\n\n

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Every year, the Tintamarre troupe brainstorms and workshops a potential theme and characters, creating a play from the collective imaginations of the group. This year, the theme sort of presented itself. MURMUReS takes a look at pandemic life through the eyes of a host of characters, all experiencing it in different ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs per usual, it\u2019s very character driven,\u201d says O\u2019Connor. \u201cA lot of the characters are based off stories that stem from the actors\u2019 lives or just things that we\u2019ve noticed in the world this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The play centres around a small family with an absent parent. \u201cThe mom decides to host weekly Zoom meetings, to develop a new community of her own and hopefully bring people together, to give people hope,\u201d says O\u2019Connor. \u201cSo a lot of the characters that you meet throughout the play are the characters that are coming in\u2026 They\u2019re kind of a ragtag bunch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chiasson says that as actors, the troupe has had to make adjustments and changes. \u201cYou have to be more conscious about where you\u2019re looking,\u201d says Chiasson, \u201cbecause you can\u2019t make eye contact with other actors online.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the worry that you are still in frame, and the well-known concern over whether or not you are muted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are all things that we wouldn\u2019t have to worry about if we were in person on stage,\u201d says Chiasson, \u201cso it\u2019s definitely been a little bit harder to make a connection. But I think, by sharing our stories and attending rehearsals every week, we\u2019ve been able to keep the process the same as the past few years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Chiasson and O\u2019Connor say the silver lining to an online play is the expanded audience reach. \u201cThis year, my grandma\u2019s going to see the play for the first time,\u201d says Chiasson. \u201cSo it\u2019s really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Admission to MURMUReS is free, but tickets are required. You can order tickets here:\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/MURMUReS<\/a>, or email\u00a0motyerfancytheatre@mta.ca<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tintamarre, Mount Allison University\u2019s award-winning bilingual theatre troupe, has created what director-author Alex Fancy calls \u201ca dramatic comedy for 2021.\u201d MURMUReS will be staged remotely March 18th, 19th and 20th at 7:30 PM Atlantic Standard Time. CHMA spoke with associate directors No\u00e9mie Chiasson and Caitlin O\u2019Connor to find out a bit more about the play.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":47443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,221],"tags":[7348,7347],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47437"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=47437"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=47437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}