new roots 2022 | we’re live!
THE CAMPAIGN
Our New Roots Campaign is back! Last year with your support, we raised $35,000 to develop new work at Pacific – some of which you can see in this year’s Festival. Our campaign goal this year is $40,000 to continue that work and support new plays that explore the big questions we love here at PT.
Every week, we’ll highlight an artist or initiative being supported by New Roots, and the work they’re presenting at the Festival.
THE FESTIVAL
The 2nd annual New Roots Festival celebrates Work In Process by inviting audiences into the development of new theatrical works. This is a chance for you to be among the first to hear commissioned work from Pacific Theatre playwrights, and to see full readings from our Working With community playwrights’ group.
The festival spans four days of free readings, with audience feedback and interaction after each event. A celebration of creation is the perfect way to send off our season and close out our New Roots Campaign.
FEATURING
Mary is an icon. Literally and figuratively. And yet, we know almost nothing about Mary herself. The centrepoint of the Christian Story is that God became human and dwelt among us and yet we seem to go to a lot of lengths to keep Mary, his mother, from being too human – to keep her saintly, and sanitized, and other-worldly.
Virgin birth… How would that have played with your parents? Silent night… She literally gave birth in a barn, so probably not. Mary took these things and pondered them in her heart… OK, and then what? What was the WHOLE REST OF MARY’S LIFE like? And in the centuries since, how has Mary’s story been used, who has used it, and what is the power of a person’s story anyway?
Before she passed away last summer, Tetsuro’s kids prayed with their grandmother every night. Even though Tetsuro has long departed from his childhood faith, he can’t help but notice that their home – without Grandma’s prayers – feels emptier.
Told in his signature style, Tetsuro Shigematsu’s (Empire of the Son, 1 Hour Photo) latest solo work wrestles with his complicated relationship with faith. In it, he questions belief, what parts of faith we leave behind, and what we carry forward for the rest of our lives.
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