The Company

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Re:Current Theatre is an award-winning company creating performance that reimagines gathering. We are a deeply human collective engaged in questions that spark connection between strangers. We create one of a kind experiences that redefine what we think of as theatre. At times our work will be on a stage, though it’ll just as often take place in unconventional settings, on gameboards, in studios and over dinner tables. We use a multiplicity of materials and methods that tease the senses to create an intimate space of unpredictable wonder.

We take ideas apart and reassemble them. We playfully dismantle and reconfigure systems to understand what it is we do not know. We approach our ignorance with kindness and compassion. We want to be in conversation with an idea and the audience together as we volley back and forth with each other as collaborators. We support each other and the audiences we invite into our spaces.

We are a collective of next generation artists: some who fit inside prescribed boxes and others for whom there is no box to fill. As settlers, immigrants, and diaspora we are always considering our relationship to the lands where we gather. Our work is personal and intimate, even when it’s a big spectacle. It’s always just for you. Our aesthetic is a nexus of old and new technologies, pop culture, games, and academic theory. Our work moves through the senses to create visceral and profoundly transformative encounters.

History

Founded in 2014, Re:Current Theatre is a Vancouver/Toronto-based theatre company. We have adapted classical texts, reimagined scripted contemporary performance, written multi-media plays, created gamified interactive theatrical experiences and intimate encounters for one audience at a time, provided accessible development workshops, and continued to develop genre-bending work.

We have presented our work at festivals locally and nationally. We presented the Canadian Premiere of ‘The Smile Off Your Face’ by Ontroerend Goed, which won the SummerWorks Award for Best Production, received outstanding production recognitions from local press, and was featured on several “Best of the Year” lists. Re:Current Theatre was a member of the HIVE Performance Collective, which supported the presentation of a dozen new contemporary micro-performances at the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, and worked with the collective to support emerging performance practices on the west coast. We have been a company in residence at hub14, Impulse theatre, and are grateful for the development support of our projects from Rumble Theatre, Presentation House Theatre, The Theatre Centre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Suitcase in Point, Buddies in Bad Times, and Cabaret Company.

During the pandemic, we created several new digital participatory works designed across multiple platforms including VR and a custom video conferencing interface. Our latest project, New Societies, toured online from 2020 to 2022 to the Kick & Push Festival, eVolver Festival, Rumble Theatre, and Crow's Theatre. Most recently, New Societies returned in person to sold-out houses during its Vancouver premiere and subsequently three week tour across Ontario. It has been translated into and performed in Mandarin with a local cast at the National Theatre of Taipei.