Photographs taken by Leif Norman - leifnorman.com
About Theatre Dirgible
- Theatre Dirigble
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- First of all: the word Dirigible is generally taken to mean airship or balloon. In actual fact it means “steer-able”. So the early airships – which seem more like a creation of fiction, than a historical truth, and as such, evoke images of new and impossible landscapes – were not just at the mercy of the winds. Theatre Dirigible’s aesthetic focus is on plays that embrace their fictional nature, and, by investigating core issues of the human condition: identity, isolation, memory, reality vs. fantasy, morality vs. convenience, fear of death, and so on - make the world seem larger. We look for plays that are set in unexpected landscapes – landscapes that add poetic resonance to the play’s central themes – and that add theatrical surprise in their staging. In producing Morris Panych’s "The Story of a Sinking Man", we will be launching the company with a play that brings one of Winnipeg’s best known performers to the stage in a tour-de-force solo performance. Theatre Dirigible’s goal is to bring the sort of theatre we are curious about to non-traditional environments, introducing great theatre and exceptional performers to new adult audiences.