Deborah Pearson

Maker of Live Things

Deborah Pearson in a red hat and tartan scarf looks like she is rowing along a canal or calm river.

Drifting Right

The piece seeks to engender a cross-political dialogue between my left leaning tendencies, and those who support the rightwards shift currently happening in Western politics. It is a piece about talking to conservatives, and sharing a boat with a conservative.

This piece premiered from May 7th to 10th at the Next Wave Festival in Melbourne, Australia. On May 11th we held one of Next Wave’s trademark Breakfast Club events about the project. This was a town hall style meeting curated by Next Wave, where I presented the “results” of my research, and we featured some of my conservative canoeing co-pilots. The event opened up the discussion with an audience about left vs. right and the tenuous possibility for dialogue.

If you’re curious to know more, I wrote this blog post for the Guardian about the project.  You can also contact me if you wish to view documentation of the project.

Performances

Past Performances

07/05/201411/05/2014
Next Wave Festival

Melbourne, Australia

Related Projects

CO-ED

CO-ED (Or how to become your gender in 10 easy steps) was a double bill for the final year drama students at York University of an all male play directed by Ross Manson called Table Talk  that I wrote when I was 22 years old, and a devised piece based on that first play, called The Play About the Other Play, created by myself, the director Claire Calnan, and the female students.

The Talent

A woman in a sound booth is talking. She is talking to herself. She is talking to you. She is talking to everyone. She is gifted, professional, mercurial; it seems as if she can summon almost any kind of voice and create any kind of world.

The Hope Project

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