By Pepper Parr
February 1, 2018
BURLINGTON, ON
Our focus is Burlington – if it didn’t happen here we tend not to say anything.
There is an event that isn’t going to take place in Burlington – it should be premiered here at the Performing Arts Centre.
Trevor Copp, the artist who delivered the delegation at city council that moved the dial just enough for things to begin to happen. The city owes the man much.
Copp is doing what he is just great at – mime.
His Searching for Marceau is being done:
IN TORONTO (this weekend)
at the Pia Bouman Theatre, 6 Noble St
Fri & Sat Feb 2-3 @ 8pm, Sun Feb 4 @ 2pm
Tix available at the door only $20
IN KITCHENER (next weekend)
at the Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick St
Sat Feb 10 @ 7:30pm, Sun Feb 11 @ 2pm
Tix at (519) 578-1570 or registrytheatre.com
Why this production is not on the stage at the Performing Arts Centre defies explanation.
Here is what some of the arts critics have to say about Copp.
“A master of contemporary theatre….there is a sensitivity to the performance, an indefinable sense of risk taking that signals the true artist”
– Gary Smith, The Hamilton Spectator
“…inspirational cross-training for the soul… there is a deep seated need for this kind of physical art that people don’t even realize they have anymore. In the age of Netflix and downloads, return to the campfires of our primitive ancestors and feel how theatre first stirred our souls. And as a bonus, feel the incomparable magic of the man in the box bit done by someone who studied at the Marcel Marceau School in Paris and clearly knows what he’s doing.”
– Diane Lachapelle, Apt. 613 Blog
“He moves with beautiful fluency…simply too creative for words. Highly skilled….a fresh fusion between acting and modern dance”
– View magazine
This is what a mime sounds like.
The production Searching for Marceau ……finds a budding young Mime trying to make sense of his two fathers: the real one raising him and the far away Marcel Marceau. The imaginary and the real battle in this theatre/mime piece that reinvents Marcel Marceau’s Mime tradition for the 21st Century.
At some point the world will recognize Trevor Copp for the marvelous mine that he is. The best way I can put it is to say – In the words of Marcel Marceau…
