The second production in Mount Allison’s Motyer-Fancy Theatre season is not going to be your typical theatre experience, says resident designer Ian McFarlane.
THE DARK will take audiences outside, on a lantern-lit procession through the Sackville Waterfowl Park, culminating in a staging of a poem featuring Mount Allison’s Elliot Chorale in Normandy Field. Audiences are also invited to participate in advance, in lantern making workshops happening this weekend.
McFarlane says he has been “tinkering with lanterns and light” for years now, and since coming to Mount Allison has had some “extraordinary creative collisions” with other artists such as The Dark’s co-creator Kiera Galway, and Sackville poet Keagan Hawthorne, whose poem The Dark inspired the production.
THE DARK takes place next weekend on November 2 and 3, with lantern making workshops happening October 26 and 27.
