The Circle Project
What Fools These Mortals Be
An inventive retelling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream improvized and co-created as a series of tableau vivants (living pictures) by a dynamic group of women with lived experience.
The project is a collaboration between The Circle Project, Vancouver artist Adad Hannah and fourteen women bringing their gifts of imagination, resilience and boundless creativity.
The Dreaming
The Dreaming is an interactive audio documentary where women with lived experience share intimate memories of their dreams.
The dreams were recorded during the production of What Fools These Mortals Be.
Harlquino's Folly
Harlquino’s Folly evolved from a unique collaboration with a group of theatre artists incarcerated at William Head, a federal men’s correctional institution on Vancouver Island, located on the traditional and unceded territory of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples of the Songhees Nation and Xwsepsum Nation.
Time Freed
Time Freed (Beyond Capture) was developed through a series of workshops with 15 women with lived experience of incarceration. Under the inspired direction of Vancouver artist, Jin-me Yoon, the women designed their individual masks and costumes and worked on a land-based choreography to lend expression to their collective imaginations.
The Circle
The Circle is a creative documentation of a storytelling circle held in Vancouver with a group of women with lived experience. Some had just been released, some had been outside for several years, all had a story to tell.
Lockdown
Lockdown weaves zoom conversations with 6 formerly incarcerated women who offer advice on how to survive a lockdown. They put current government-imposed restrictions into perspective, and model how resilience, humour (and puppy love) can get us through this.