7th Cousins
Presented by Christine Brubaker & Erin Brubacher
In the summer of 2015, Erin Brubacher and Christine Brubaker walked 700km over 32 days because of no more or less than a shared name. A stranger asked if they were walking to learn how to be together: this was certainly part of it. They spent some nights in motels and tree-hung hammocks, but the majority of evenings they were hosted by strangers. They walked through cities, towns and state forests; on country roads, shoulders of small highways, hiking trails and train tracks.
This July, exactly one year after their first kilometre on foot together, Christine and Erin will set-up shop in The Theatre Centre Incubator. With the direction of Christopher Stanton and design from Simon Rabyniuk, they will develop a performance combining storytelling, documentary theatre, memory, myth, and extreme physicality in the traces of an embodied journey.
7th Cousins is an automythography: Truth, tales, and what’s in the spaces in between a shared and imagined past, present and future.
The workshop presentation is a free event. To attend, RSVP by email to [email protected]
Created and performed by Christine Brubaker & Erin Brubacher
Directed by Christopher Stanton
Design by Simon Rabyniuk
July 28, 2016
to July 29, 2016
Tickets are free
The Theatre Centre
Thursday, July 28 – 6:00p
Friday, July 29 – 6:00pm
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