Pandora
Youtheatre (Quebéc, Canada)
What starts as an innocent search quickly escalates for 16-year-old
Pandora, as the world of online porn unfolds before her. Conflicted yet
drawn in by what she sees, Pandora begins to feel the impact on her
real-world relationships. Drawing inspiration from the Greek myth of
Pandora’s box, Pandora explores the dangers of defining oneself through
the prism of the internet, and the importance of remaining plugged into
the real world.
‘Unlike almost any show I’ve seen… barefaced and
unapologetic in its language and themes. Yet it’s also poetic,
suggestive and nuanced, a clever variation on the Greek myth of Pandora
and her monster-filled box’ Now Magazine
‘Berthiaume’s
script is remarkable in raising many important issues in our attitude
towards cyberspace through its open-ended nature and allegorical
features’ TheTheatreReader.com
‘The text is laced with
metaphor, the staging highly stylized and the context surreal. Such a
combination could have spelled disaster in less capable hands. But [the]
world premiere of Pandora, a Youtheatre play about a teenage girl’s
troubling encounter with online pornography, was an unmitigated success’
Montreal Gazette
‘Unflinching, Vital and Important Theatre
for Young Audiences’
MooneyOnTheatre.com
Written by |
Sarah Berthiaume
Translation by | Nadine Desrochers
Cast
Pandora
| Cara Rebecca
Alex/Firefox | Gabriel Richardson
Directed by |
Véa
Director of Photography | Martin Amiot
Production Manager
| Maude Lafrance
Technical Director and Assistant Director | Emlyn
VanBruinswaardt
Editing and Colour | Elodie Lorrain-Martin
Hair
and Makeup | Maude Lafrance
Assistant Camera | Ivan Peloquin
Sound
Operator | Samuel Carrier
Technicians | Andrew Scriver and Emily
Soussana
French Subtitles | Elodie Lorrain-Martin
Set
Documentation | Théo Gagné
Set Designer | Martin Sirois
Costumes
and Props | Ariane Valade
Sound Designer | Guillaume Lévesque
Sound
Editing | Thierry Gauthier
Sound Mix | Pako Mamouni
Produced by |
Productions UP
Executive Producer | Youtheatre
Filmed at | The
Segal Centre for Performing Arts
Craft | Edgar Trudeau Ferrin
Photos
by | Robert Desroches
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Theatre
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£14.00 -
7 February 2024 -
47 minutes -
C ARTS | C venues | C digital -
portal – on demand -
14+ (guidance) -
Scenes of a sexual nature, Contains sexual themes
