The World Premiere of Erased is happening this November!
The show runs: November 20th-30th, 2024 at Theatre Passe Muraille
Photography: Simone Matheson; Graphic Design: Emily Jung; Featuring: Ericka Leobrera
We are thrilled to announce that Erased by Coleen Shirin MacPherson is part of Theatre Passe Muraille’s 24.25 season! Erased is produced in partnership with Theatre Passe Muraille and will be running November 22 to November 30, 2024.
Erased draws us into a greeting card factory in a post-climate collapse world, where workers are forced to meet a quota, making ridiculous greeting cards while trying to survive within the machinery that controls and erases them. This tremendous 11 cast member physical theatre piece speaks to our addiction to production in late-capitalism and is a call to look deeper into the state of our planet and the structures that have entrapped us. A surreal marriage of absurdism, dark comedy, political theatre and poetry, Erased explores how the kindling of a soft revolution turns to flame, igniting the spirit of resistance that keeps it alive.
Erased joins an exhilarating line-up of works including: the RUTAS Festival, The Flin Flon Cowboy, the PXR 2024 Conference, and more.
Our Creative Team!
“Erased began out of a desire to speak about capitalism, our culture of consumption and to write something funny. And while writing in the forests of France, where snakes were living in the walls of my ‘gite’, the work evolved into a strange world of the future. This play is iterative and ever-evolving and many artists have helped shape the development of the play, including York University Devised Theatre Interns who helped develop “The Disappeared” chorus. I’m so grateful for everyone who has contributed to this piece. We can’t wait to share the play with audiences this Fall.”
“Our focus remains steadfast on collaboration, innovation, accessibility, and community as we develop and curate the most intriguing and provocative theatrical experiences for you. Join us as we challenge, engage, and inspire for a fall of wonder.”
History of Erased
Erased began out of a desire to speak about capitalism, our culture of consumption and to write something funny. And while writing in the forests of France, where snakes were living in the walls of my gite, the work evolved into a strange world of the future. We first shared the play in London, UK with a reading at the Arcola Theatre in 2017 and then at the Tristan Bates Theatre in the West End in 2018. From here, the play grew, and in 2020, a few months after the global pandemic struck us all, the piece was transformed into a film-play that was broadcast live through La MaMa Experiments in New York City. This play is iterative and ever-evolving and many artists have helped shape the work. Erased has been developed at Tarragon Workspace, and took part in two Buzz Development series at Theatre Passe Muraille in 2021 and 2023.
On July 13th, we presented a film-play experiment via La Mama’s facebook page as part of Experiments 20.
From September 15th to 20th 2020, Erased was screened at Angell Gallery in Toronto for socially-distanced viewing.
Our work with University of York Devised Theatre Interns in 2023
Photos by Dahlia Katz
We would like to thank our York University Devised Theatre Interns for their artistic contributions to the Chorus of the Disappeared. Thank you to: Dylan Carter, Zoe Magirias, Priscila Gonzalez, Makenah Welsh, Eden Ulnik, Madeline Sadai, Julie Yiptong, Payton Oswald, Mackenzie Mamone and Julia Usher
Thank you so much to the following donors who have helped us fill in the gap so far! We are so grateful for your support!
Lara Arabian, Miranda Calderon, Dina Constantinou, Roda Contractor, Vanessa Corlazzoli, Natalie Dalton, Michael Faubert, Tom Graham & Jeanne Lambert, Bryn Kennedy, Francois Kerret, Lorraine Kirby, Diana Leblanc, Amy Lister, Maurice & Cecelia Lovelock, Frances Lowe, Paul MacPherson, Ronald J MacPherson, Martha McInnis, Martha Ross, Shari Stein, Kaitlin Stelmanis, Monica Szustawkowski, Lilia Leon Tovar, Diana Tso, Rose Tuong, Mark de Venecia, K Worrall, Norman Yeung, Kelly Van der Berg, Nancy McAlear, Martha Hannan.
