A SUPPLEMENT
How can we die before we die, so we don’t die when we die?
In the early 20th century, playwright and theorist Antonin Artaud travelled to Mexico in search of a more essential way of being. He detailed his voyage in a series of essays entitled The Peyote Dance, and particularly, “A Supplement to a Voyage to the Land of the Tarahumara.”
Theatre Encounter’s A SUPPLEMENT is a physical meditation on Artaud’s descriptions of consciousness, the capriciousness of the human will, spirituality, corporeality, and the essential question of good and evil, using Encounter’s Expressionist approach to performance and Val Duncan’s performance research in butoh.
Originally presented to audiences of just 6 people in March 2022, A SUPPLEMENT returns to the stage at the cSpace studio theatre in a revised and expanded version.
MARCH 25 to 28, 2026
7PM nightly with a 2PM matinee on March 28
Directed by MICHAEL FENTON
Performed by VAL DUNCAN
Stage Management by LAUREN MOORE
Choreographic Support from JOCELYN MAH
Virtual Chorus: MARCY ROGERS, MICHAEL ROGERS and PAT QUINN
Designed by RUBY SWAN, VAL DUNCAN and JOHN HALE
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Originally Presented March 24, to April 2, 2022 at The ABATTOIR @ cSPACE KING EDWARD (#135 1721 29th Ave SW Calgary)
Directed by MICHAEL FENTON. Choreography and Performance by VAL DUNCAN. Set and Lighting Design by JOHN HALE. Music by VAL DUNCAN.
Video (digital presentation) by EMIL AGOPIAN
Theatre Encounter gratefully acknowledges the support of its funders and sponsors:
