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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. 
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.

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Photo credit: Cindy Donovan
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
more on some must watch while some must sleep
Read more in PLAY: Dramaturgies of Participation: ​TEXT MESSAGES, INTIMACY, PHONES

Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep (excerpt)-2 from Tanya Marquardt on Vimeo.

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. 
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