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This is a paper cut. This is Greta Garbo. This is the smell of Windex. Declarations, by acclaimed playwright Jordan Tannahill, is an ode to mortality -- that of the playwright’s mother, his own, humankind’s -- a joyful and moving attempt to capture the objects, sensations, and experiences that make up a life. Through a lyrical and iterative text, five performers chronicle a life pulled through time, encountering meteorological phenomena, mythology, political calamity, pop culture, and everyday happenstance along the way. What accumulates is a staggering archive of images, sense memories, and voices asserting that here lived, for a time, a woman.
This is a paper cut. This is Greta Garbo. This is the smell of Windex. Declarations, by acclaimed playwright Jordan Tannahill, is an ode to mortality -- that of the playwright’s mother, his own, humankind’s -- a joyful and moving attempt to capture the objects, sensations, and experiences that ma...
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Jordan Tannahill is an Ottawa-born, London UK-based playwright and filmmaker. His work has been presented at major theatres and festivals across Canada and internationally. He won the Governor General's Award for Drama in 2014 for Age of Minority and was shortlisted for the prize again in 2016 for Concord Floral. From 2012 to 2016 he ran the alternative art space Videofag with William Ellis out of their home, a former barbershop in Toronto's Kensington Market.
Jordan Tannahill is an Ottawa-born, London UK-based playwright and filmmaker. His work has been presented at major theatres and festivals across Canada and internationally. He won the Governor General's Award for Drama in 2014 for Age of Minority and was shortlisted for the prize again in 2016 fo...
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