Playful pastiche
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Play Group just wants to have fun
by EVE MACLAUREN
Though the members stress the real purpose is to have fun, Play Group is acting as a serious catalyst for interesting performance art in this city. "It's a weekly performance collective of playful souls who have been meeting both indoors and outdoors since January '99," founder Louise Dubreuil explains. Play Group member Victoria Stanton describes it as "a living laboratory for experiments in performance art."
Looks like 2001 will be a-buzz with Play Group pieces: Marie-Andrée Rho performs in the streets around Théâtre La Chapelle in February; January through March, Karen Spencer aimlessly wanders around town with her performance Rambling Man; Nathalie Derome's interdisciplinary work De temps d'antenne shows in April; Stanton performs at the Hands on Hips Happening and as part of the Reciprocity festival in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Other names to keep an eye out for: Sylvie Cotton, Aneessa Hashmi, Dina Saikali, Elizabeth Reeve, Lou Nelson, Jessica Little, Rachel Echenberg, and Vida Simon.
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