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JORDAN TANNAHILL (1988 - ) |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Jordan Tannahill is a Canadian playwright and director based in Toronto. His plays and multimedia performances have been developed and presented through some of Canada's most prominent theatres including Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Canadian Stage, Great Canadian Theatre Company, and the Harbourfront Centre. He principally produces work through his theatre company Suburban Beast, largely characterized as 'documentary theatre' though frequently incorporating fictional and theatricalized elements. His plays include the Dora Award winning Get Yourself Home Skyler James and Post Eden, which won the Contra Guys' Award for 'Best New Work' at the 2010 SummerWorks Theatre Festival in Toronto.
Plays by Jordan Tannahill
Bravislovia | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2011 Rhubarb Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Toronto, Canada) | 23 feb 2011 | ||||
Company: | Suburban Beast | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #131245 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, Monologue | |||||
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Synopsis: | Starting at the age of 10, playwright/performer Jordan Tannahill created hundreds of maps, building blueprints, portraits, and family trees of the imaginary nation of Bravislovia, a fractured former-Soviet republic on the Baltic Sea. The play follows the life of the mercurial Isaac Nyakov, Jordan's alter-ego who lived a storied life as a fugitive poet before succumbing to the tyranny of a brutal regime. Employing dozens of childhood drawings, lush, cinematic backdrops and live narration, Bravislovia is a personal and whimsical journey exploring the ability for imagination to overcome personal trauma. | |||||
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Get Yourself Home Skylar James | ||
| 1st Produced: | Roseneath Theatre (tour of six high schools across Toronto) | Oct 2010 | ||||
Company: | Roseneath Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114757 | |||
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Genre: | Drama, Monologue, Theatre for Young Audiences | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Winner of the 2010 Dora Award for 'Best Performance: Theatre for Young Audiences Division' for Natasha Greenblatt | |||||
Synopsis: | After Private Skyler James was outed as a lesbian her life became a living hell at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. But when she began fearing for her life she knew she had to escape. In the middle of the night she loaded all of her belongings into a white pickup and just started driving north& | |||||
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Post Eden | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2010 SummerWorks Theatre Festival at Theatre Passe Muraille (Toronto, Canada) | 04 Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Suburban Beast | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #114758 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Drama, Magical Realism | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Post Eden is a 'live film' about a fantastical day in the life of one suburban family in Richmond Hill. Inspired by interviews conducted with a dozen residents of the real-life street of Neighbourly Lane, playwright/director Jordan Tannahill creates a multi-media fantasia in which a girl exhumes her dead family dog from her backyard in order to break a curse that has befallen her family. Actors onstage interact with their filmic selves in disarming ways, as the lines between documentary and fantasy blur. | |||||
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