UnSpun Theatre Company to Bring ALL THE THINGS I'VE LOST to Gardiner Museum

As part of the Gardiner Museum's new Community Arts Space project, the award-winning Toronto-based theatre company, UnSpun Theatre, will hold two weeks of free performances showcasing their new work, All The Things I've Lost.

Shira Leuchter will revisit significant objects that have been lost throughout her life, alongside her mother, a ceramist, who will reinvent, recreate, and honour these lost childhood objects by re-making them out of clay. An exhibit and performance piece, All The Things I've Lost questions how physical objects hold memories and how we pass on stories from generation to generation through the things we have kept and preserved. In between showtimes, visitors will be able to listen to exerpts of the performances and see the objects created on display.

Born and raised in Toronto, Shira is an actor, theatre creator, illustrator and mom. She's also the Creative Director for UnSpun Theatre. Shira recently co-created and performed in The Speedy (Harbourfront Centre World Stage 2014, Fresh Ground new works commission), which was taught this year as part of the University of Toronto's largest English course "Literature for Our Time". Her co-adaptation of The Tin Drum received 5 Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations. Shira has created live art for Canadian Stage, The Theatre Centre and Praxis Theatre and performance art for the SummerWorks Performance Gallery among others. Her series Your Process is Showing was regularly featured on the Praxis Theatre blog and responded to different performance creation practices using visual media. Shira is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada and the University of Guelph.

For more information, and to register for free tickets, visit www.gardinermuseum.com/event/all-the-things-ive-lost.

SHOWTIMES:
Thursday, August 11, 7 pm
Friday, August 12, 7 pm
Saturday, August 13, 3 pm
Wednesday, August 17, 3 pm
Thursday, August 18, 7 pm
Friday, August 19, 7 pm
Saturday, August 20, 3 pm

Call 416.586.8080 for more details.

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