39

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from		until
2010-03-27	19:00	2010-03-27	21:30
2010-03-28	19:00	2010-03-28	20:30
2010-03-28	16:00	2010-03-28	17:30

A new play about how time (and space) keep passing us by.

A man boards a spacecraft and travels at near-light speeds for six years. When he returns to Earth he finds that nearly 40 years have passed, and everything and everyone he knows has changed. He is faced with the problem of being a stranger to the very people he missed the most, and in the very place that he calls home.

39 promises to be unlike any show you've ever seen here in Japan: it is a departure from standard YTG fare in several important and exciting ways.

1. There is no official script. The script will be created in rehearsals by the performers and director.

2. After the March production at the YCAC in Yokohama, 39 will go on tour, not just to Tokyo, but to Theatres and Festivals all over the world, starting with Canada.

3. In each different Theatre the show is presented, a different performer will join Andrew Woolner in playing one of the other characters from the story, so each time the show is presented, it will be different, and touch on different themes and parts of the story with different depths.

Performer/writer Andrew Woolner and director/dramaturg Kimberly Tierney will bring their combined decades of experience in Theatre to bear on creating a show that relates very closely to the experience of being a long-term foreign resident in Japan.

"I've accepted that no matter how long I live here," says Woolner, "I'll never quite fit in. But at the same time, on the rare occasions that I return to Canada, I feel that things have changed so much that my old life doesn't really exist anymore. The Toronto I knew is lost in time."

"The last time I travelled to the United States, I was in about four different states in as many days", says Tierney, "I felt like I was on another planet, and that downtime of being in transit was this amazing suspension between the innate excitement of going somewhere new and the tremendous loneliness of being a visitor in a familiar place."

39 is about exploration, breaking new ground, and the sacrifices faced by pioneers.

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