JULY 17-22, 2024 VANCOUVER PLAYHOUSE | 600 HAMILTON STREET |Google map
Doors at 7:00PM | Concert starts at 7:30PM
featuring:
Aram Bajakian, guitar; Paolo Bortolussi, flute; Julia Chien, percussion; Dailin Hsieh, zheng; Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, piano; Jonathan Lo, cello; Saina Khaledi, santour; Julia Ulehla, vocals
inventive presentations of top-flight contemporary music
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An ambitious immersive production like you’ve never seen.
Music on Main’s The Tempest Project is a poetic response to our current moment of global challenge and change. A musically and theatrically audacious production inspired by Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” The Tempest Project features composers, musicians, designers, and theatre-makers, brought together under the direction of David Pay.
During a multi-year development process, The Tempest Project Company has explored universal themes of mercy, redemption, empathy, betrayal, and forgiveness. We’ve dug into magic and sleight of hand. We’ve improvised musical arrangements, danced, and become friends.
As we prepare for the first production of The Tempest Project at the Vancouver Playhouse in July 2024, we’re creating an artistic adventure where the audience is invited to experience the theatre as they never have before. You’ll hear music onstage and explore backstage. You’ll discover parts of the theatre you’ve never seen, and hear music in unexpected places.
Filled with magic and surprise, The Tempest Project will leave audiences with a renewed sense of hope in these complicated times.
The Tempest Project Company
Julia Ulehla, vocals; Paolo Bortolussi, flute; Aram Bajakian, guitar; Saina Khaledi, santour & composer; Dailin Hsieh, zheng; Julia Chien, percussion; Jonathan Lo, cello; Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, piano; Nancy Tam, composer; Alfredo Santa Ana, composer; David Pay, director; Shayna Goldberg; artistic producer; Melanie Yeats, dramaturg; Alexis Douglas, production manager.
Additional composers, technicians, and performers will be added to The Tempest Project Company. The Tempest Project is conceived by David Pay.
Royal Bank of Canada is this project’s Presenting Sponsor.
