Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep
Through text messaging, audiences participate in word-games and other question-and-answer improvisations with Tanya and with their ‘sleep persona’ named X. Stretching over fourteen nights, the show is an intimate exploration of dreams and nightmares. And friendship.
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Production Credits
Creator/Performer: Tanya Marquardt Direction: Fay Nass Sound Composition: Omar Zubair Scenography: David B Smith Lighting Design: Masha Tsmiring Coding, Coding Dramaturgy and Design: Ainsley Ellis Dramaturgy: Heidi Taylor Beta-testers: DB Amorin, Jess Barbagallo, Ethan Brown, Anasta- sia Clarke, Derek Chan, Sabrina Fonseca, June Fukumura, Díana Garcia, Bobbi Sue McCollum, Elliott Reed, Moein Shashaei, Pa- tricia Trinh, Sam Walters, Anais West, Michael Wheeler, Sacha Yanow, and Alice Yorke. |
Photo credit: Cindy Donovan
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Production History
Festival of Live Digital Art (FOLDA): Kingston, ON. 30 May - 13 June 2021.
Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program; Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center, New York, NY: 3 June 2016
Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program; Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center, New York, NY: 3 June 2016
Read more in PLAY: Dramaturgies of Participation: TEXT MESSAGES, INTIMACY, PHONES
Articles
Tanya Marquardt and Jenn Stephenson, “Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep: An Impromptu Text Thread,” Canadian Theatre Review 197 (Winter 2024): 56-59.
Scripts
Tanya Marquardt and Jenn Stephenson, “Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep” Canadian Theatre Review 197 (Winter 2024): 42-55.