Upstream Downtown: Theatre Creation Through a Feminist and Multispecies Lens

Authors

Morgan Johnson, York UniversityFollow
Alexandra Simpson, York UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-28-2019

Abstract

In the historically masculine Western sciences, we are told we can fully know a being by dissecting, labelling, testing, observing, and documenting. This article explores how multispecies and feminist theatre creation and performance, specifically in the style of clown and bouffon, can work to resist such narratives and offer a more sentient understanding of interspecies relationships. Our investigations focus on our journey as two female creators of Upstream Downtown, a research-based, physical theatre play about salmon and humans finding home in the settler colonial city of Toronto.

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For photos of the process of performance of Upstream Downtown please visit www.animacytheatrecollective.com

Recommended Citation / Citation recommandée

Johnson, Morgan, and Alexandra Simpson. "Upstream Downtown: Theatre Creation Through a Feminist and Multispecies Lens." The Goose, vol. 17 , no. 2 , article 4, 2019,
https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol17/iss2/4.