Reading Cankar, A Roundtable Discussion, 2021

Streamed live on Mar 31, 2022 The event Brati Cankarja – Reading Cankar is a logical continuation of the project Cankar Goes West, which we presented last year with its new translations of Ivan Cankar’s plays into English. The project was led by the Prešeren Theatre Kranj and the Crane Creations Theatre Company in Canada, whose Artistic Director is the Slovenian director Andreja Kovač. With these new translations of plays by Ivan Cankar, who has already been described as the "undiscovered Central European Ibsen", the Week of Slovenian Drama thus continues to promote Slovenian drama abroad. Now we have invited theatre experts to read different plays by Cankar and, during a moderated debate, give their opinions about them and speak about possibilities of their staging internationally. 

A segment from the reading performance of the English translation of Cankar’s Beautiful Vida performed by the Little Lion Theatre will be shown at the round table. 

Participating experts: Jure Gantar (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada), Andreja Kovač (artistic director, Crane Creations Theatre Company, Mississauga, Canada), Vijay Padaki (Bangalore Little Theatre Foundation, Bangalore, India) and Kay Brattan (artistic director, Little Lion Theatre, London, UK). Moderator: Tatjana Ažman (Slovenian Centre ITI) The event will take place in the Škrlovec Tower Gallery and will be live-streamed online here. Slovenian Centre ITI International Playwrights’ Forum ITI Crane Creations Theatre Company (Canada)

What You Will, Teahouse Theatre 2020

Little Lion Theatre Company's production of What You Will, or Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Adapted and Directed by Kay Brattan

Featuring Rebecca Ryder, Anant Varman, Biz Lyon, Val Adams, Sarah Parker, Heather Jones, Candice Miller, Rosemary Lippard, Vyte Garriga, and Ben Warren

Stage Managed by Hazel McGarth
Designed by Valentina Turtur
Produced by Alice Greening
Videography by Mike Colyer

Cover of Rusted Roots' "Send Me On My Way" by Rosemary Lippard
Footage from original production at The Teahouse Theatre, October 2020

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East 15 Selected Projects

Adaptation of The Specialist's Hat, by Kelly Link, final presentation Adaptation Module
Adapted and Directed by Kay Brattan 

Featuring Maria Lisberg-Jonasson and Salle Salee

Devised piece made in collaboration with the World Theatre and BA Acting International students for East 15's International Day, 2019.

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New Ideas Festival 2018, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Clips from The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea, New Ideas Festival 2018, Alumnae Theatre
Written by Natalie Frijia
Directed by Kay Brattan
​Stage Managed by Christopher Douglas 
Lighting Design by Steve Vargo

Featuring Emma Tse, Stella Kulagowski, Shawn Lall

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Toronto Fringe 2017, Lysistrata

Lysistrata, by Aristophanes,
Adapted and Directed by Kay Brattan
"You Don't Own Me", music by SAYGRACE (featuring G-Eazy)
Choreography by Stella Kulagowski 
​Featuring:
The Magistrate- Jordan Shore
Lysistrata- Stella Kulagowski
Calonice- Amanda Mattar
Lampito-Jennah Foster-Catlack
​Myrrhine-Brittany Cope

Stage Managed by Sinclair Gwilliams 
Lighting Design by Sebastian Marziali 
Costume Design by Stevie Baker