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 | Nadine Desrochers
Cast
Pandora
| Cara Rebecca
Alex/Firefox | Gabriel Richardson
Direction |
Véa
Director of Photography | Martin Amiot
Production Manager
| Maude Lafrance
Technical Director & Assistant Director | Emlyn
VanBruinswaardt
Editing & Colour | Elodie Lorrain-Martin
Makeup
& Hair | Maude Lafrance
Assistant Camera | Ivan Peloquin
Sound
Operator | Samuel Carrier
Technicians | Andrew Scriver, Emily Soussana
French
Subtitles | Elodie Lorrain-Martin
Set Documentation | Théo Gagné
Set
Designer | Martin Sirois
Costumes & Props | Ariane Valade
Sound
Designer | Guillaume Lévesque
Sound Editing | Thierry Gauthier
Sound
Mix | Pako Mamouni
Produced by | Productions UP
Executive Producer
| Youtheatre
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Author Sarah Berthiaume, translated by Nadine Desrochers
Language Performed in English
Captioning Closed captions in English (auto-generated)
Dates Available now
Format Digital on-demand
Recorded The Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montréal, Quebéc, Canada
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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
