Vancouver's Pacific Theatre Announces Video Performance Piece THE PASSION PROJECT, 1/27-2/6

Direct from New York, Pacific Theatre and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival are proud to present THE PASSION PROJECT, an extraordinary performance piece by video artist Reid Farrington playing playing from January 27-February 6th.

This electrifying work compresses the entirety of Carl Theodor Dreyer's classic silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc into a 30-minute concentration of movement, projection, installation, and sound collage. The audience surrounds a 10x10 foot square of light containing a solitary woman as she executes a rigorous movement score, interacting with flickering images of the extraordinary Maria Falconetti as the warrior saint of Orleans. Mesmerizing, meticulous, transformative. Starring Laura K. Nicoll.

The film alone presents a stunning mythology: in 1928 all the original negative 35mm was destroyed in a fire, forcing Dreyer to reconstruct the film out of alternate takes. Miraculously, over 50 years later a complete print of the original film was discovered in the closet of a Norwegian mental institution. Fast forward to 2009 when Reid Farrington, a New York-based video artist formerly of The Wooster Group, takes the original film and presents it alongside different takes, recorded interviews, and sound clips to create an archival film experiment.

"Magical, and sinister, and strange - one of the most satisfying theatrical experiences I've had in ages." -Claudia La Rocco, Culturebot

"The Passion Project should not be watched, it should be entered into. After all, it is an act of devotion. - HeLen Shaw, Time Out NY

Playing January 27-February 6th Wednesday - Saturday at 7 and 9pm with 2pm matinee on Saturday. For tickets ($17-24, GST incl.) call 604.731.5518 or pacifictheatre.org.

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