Canoe Theatre Festival: Sapientia

Canoe Theatre Festival: Sapientia

Starts:

Wednesday, January 22
7:30 PM

Ends:

Wednesday, January 22
9:30 PM


Martyrdom! Torture! Miracles!

A kettle, a flashlight, a mirror and three tea-cups.

Objects and performers are brought together to render this object theatre adaptation of the 10th century dramatic text by Roswitha of Gandersheim. Sapientia depicts the martyrdom of the holy virgins Faith, Hope, and Charity, who endure brutal torture for their faith and at the command of the Roman Emperor Hadrian.

Roswitha of Gandersheim (c. 935 � c. 1002) was a 10th-century German secular canoness, and a dramatist and poet who lived and worked in Gandersheim Abbey in modern-day Bad Gandersheim in north-central Germany. She wrote six plays and is considered to be the first person since antiquity to compose drama in the Latin West. She has been called "the most remarkable woman of her time."

Object Theatre, a form of puppetry, is a performance style that uses the animation of ordinary, pre-existing or 'found' objects rather than puppets to tell a story theatre adaptation.

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C103
8529 Gateway Boulevard
Edmonton, Alberta
T6E 6P3

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