Coming Soon
THE TELEPHONE: A CHAMBER PLAY
November 2 - November 7
STILL WALKING
March 17 - March 27
ADHERE + DENY | MEMBERS
Grant Guy
Grant Guy, founder and artistic director of Adhere And Deny, has worked professionally in the arts since his graduation from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1973. He is a director, designer, playwright, curator and arts programmer/curator, video producer, performance artist and writer.
The theatre companies Guy has worked for include the Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Projects Manitoba, the Manitoba Theatre Centre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Chamber Opera West, Magnus Theatre, Shakespeare In The Ruins, Theatre Calgary, the Performing Theatre Company, Stratford Festival Theatre and Manitoba Theatre Workshop.
Guy's performances and videos have been exhibited at Ace Art Gallery, Plug In Gallery, Neutral Ground, Second Story Gallery, A.K.A. Gallery, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Gallery 1.1.1., Centre D'Art, Ed Video, Collective Gallery, Sea Gate Gallery, Saw Gallery and Artcite Gallery.
Guy has also programmed or produced curatorial projects such as LIGHT/LIGHT, FOR A RADIO, VAN TV, and THE INSTALLATION PROJECTS for Video Pool, GROUND ZERO and NIGHTCLUB for Ace Art, DOK TRINAIRE'S TRAVELING SHOWS for Main/Access Gallery, and was the programmer and executive director for the 1986 International Intermedia Performance Festival.
Arts Award of Distinction: Grant Guy
Grant Guy, Performance and Media Artist, has been named the third recipient of the Manitoba Arts Council Arts Award of Distinction. This $30,000 award is presented annually to recognize the highest level of artistic excellence and distinguished career achievements by a professional artist.
Sharon, Carolyn, and Nadin in Three Sisters: A Still Life
Tracy McCourt
Tracy McCourt feels she should inform the gentle readers that she finds writing about herself in the third person silly, but will.... because she's been sternly told that it's how it's done.
Tracy met with Grant Guy on a rainy afternoon many years ago for an interview that she hoped would lead to her induction into Adhere And Deny. As he sat down opposite her she prepared herself for questioning. Without looking up from his coffee Grant began...
"I'm
reading this really interesting biography of Nicola Tesla. Are you familiar
with him at all?"
Nicola Tesla!!??
He spoke quietly of Tesla for about twenty minutes, then suddenly looked up and asked if she'd seen any good shows during her recent visit to the UK. She had. The talk then turned to Eugene O'Neil, then cats, then Russian filmmakers, then which counter person made the best coffee at the cafe.
After two hours he filled her in on what he had in mind for Adhere And Deny that season and popped the question . . . was she available to start rehearsing Woyzeck in three weeks. She was.
Before that fateful day Tracy had spent most of her time immersed in completing her undergraduate degree in Film Studies at The University of Manitoba. Writing and the critical analysis of her beloved movies has always been her priority, even if acting tempted her away from it all (with good reason). However, neglect of these important things has forced Tracy to take her hands off the puppets and her feet off the stage for the time being to work on her own collection of short stories, a children's book (in collaboration with Pattie Chalmers, an extraordinary artist and dear friend) and think seriously about graduate studies in Film.
Fortunately Adhere And Deny is a hard company to say goodbye to, and they have not let her leave the fold. She plans to stay on as a writer/editor for the company and will hopefully see the completion of an original A&D script in the next year. She's as excited about this new role in the company as she was about the first.
Tracy's greatest wish right now is for Grant to let her knit tiny sweaters for the puppets. This may prove difficult as he pretends not to hear her whenever she brings it up. Little does he know the puppets have already given her the go ahead.
Grant
in Lost
Graham Ashmore
Graham has been an actor for sixteen years, having been a founding member of the Rude Players; he currently rides with the film company Fortescope. He tries to get everyone he knows to read Eric Ambler, Dawn Powell, Chester Himes, and Ford Madox Ford's THE GOOD SOLDIER.
Grant Guy accuses him of being a Marxist. He wishes you to know that his beloved Mekons are still putting out great records, which isn't bad for a band who were contemporaries of the Clash and the Ruts.
Robert
in Ubu Roi
Carolyn Gray
Carolyn considers herself fortunate to have hooked up with Alan Williams and the Rude Players in her first year of University, for it was there she first began writing theatre in the Hull Truck method, and has been creating her own work ever since.
She has studied at Emily Carr and Pratt Institutes of Art and Design and on the banks of the Black Sea watched by sheep with the noted Danish theatre artist Ulla Ryum. She is a founding member of Adhere And Deny and though avant garde puppetry is one of her deepest interests, being part of the Vent Haven Ventriloquist Convention in Kentucky is one of her greatest experiences.
Carolyn likes to paint, write and make puppets in her vast Elmwood home known affectionately as "Mildew Manor". Her plays have been produced by Theatre Projects Manitoba, and she has collaborated with such talents as Melanie Wight, Ruth Degraves, Sharon Bajer, Linda Danchak, and Nadin Gilroy.
Sharon
in Blood Wedding
Robert Slade
Robert Slade has made Theatre his work for nearly a quarter of a century. In that time, he has performed with Theatre X, Possible Nudity, Crumbs, the Manitoba Theatre Centre, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Manitoba Theatre for Young People, Shakespeare in the Ruins, Young People's Theatre of Toronto, Theatre Calgary, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and in Independent film.
He is the father of two young adults who have also chosen the performing arts as their vocation and who, he is proud to say, are better than he has ever been, both as performers and as human beings. His dreams are, therefore, nearly all fulfilled.
"The work we do at Adhere & Deny is always a challenge and a delight for me. The exploration of alternative media and modes of storytelling gives me the opportunity for growth, both artistically and personally. Grant is the focus and the nexus of all of this and I am grateful to be able to say that he is both a colleague and a friend, a teacher and a student, an artist and an explorer of humanity and storytelling."
Graham
in Katarsis (The Madman and the Nun)
Sharon Bajer
I have been a member of Adhere And Deny since 1999, performing in Blood Wedding, Salome, Requiem and The Three Sisters; A Still Life. Working with Adhere And Deny has brought to me a love of object puppet theatre which has inspired other puppet productions which I’ve co-created with fellow Adhere And Deny members Carolyn Gray and Graham Ashmore; The Wedding (Winnipegger Ensemble 2002) and The Apartment (Elemeno Ensemble 2003).
I came to Winnipeg from Vancouver in 1989 and grew to love the creative vitality in the city and now I make it my home. I work as an actress across the country and have written the plays; Jesus Does Laundry Too (1992), The Mother Load (1999), Doug & Betty (2000) and Mollie’s Veil (2001).
I’ve studied theatre in Copenhagen with noted dramaturge, director and playwright Ulla Ryum and at Vancouver’s Studio 58 theatre school. I’ve worked extensively with Manitoba Association of Playwrights on the development of new work and am always involved in the Winnipeg Fringe Festival as an actor, director or playwright in new productions. I’m proud to be a member of the only experimental theatre company in Winnipeg.
Robert,
Tracy, Sharon and Graham in Blood Wedding
nadin gilroy
Whether performing for children, convicted felons or jaded urbanites nadin gilroy enjoys the triumphs and challenges associated with footlights and greasepaint.
An unusual fascination with subtle topographies led her to abandon the tiresome verticals of Switzerland for the horizontal pleasures of Winnipeg.
After twelve years in theatre practice in Europe and Canada nadin remains committed to collaborative creative processes, combining independent work and an ongoing collaboration with Carolyn Gray and membership in Winnipeg's Adhere And Deny.
She lives in a pink house on the banks of the Red River.
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