Dartmouth, Canada

PLAYING FIELDS

Name: PLAYING FIELDS
Start: 2025-06-08T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-06-08T00:00:00+00:00
Location: PLAYING FIELDS

A participatory outdoor sound performance, featuring the voices of teenagers from across the world (and one local teenager), who tells you how they feel and what to do.

Hosted by Stages Festival

2 events

Playing Fields is a youth driven, outdoor, participatory sound performance that takes place on your local field. Created using interviews with youth ages 13-17 about ownership and belonging, this aural performance comes from communities around the world (Dublin, Hong Kong, Whitehorse, Richmond, BC) that have experienced some form of colonization. Playing Fields uses sport as an entry point, but the focus is on where the game takes place: the field itself. The recorded audio interviews are interspersed with live prompts from a local Halifax teenager- who directs the audience on the field - each wearing individual headsets - leading them through a series of movements that accumulate into some sort of group choreography that resembles a field game.

Audience Role

Listener.

Ages: All ages

Content Advisories

• No sexual content

• Themes around colonization

• Use of headphones

Interaction Advisories

• No physical contact with performers

Mobility Advisories

• Event is not wheelchair accessible

• Dress for the outdoors

• Limited seating

• Not wheelchair accessible

• Uneven terrain

Stages Festival

Events

Years on EI

About Stages Festival

JUNE 4 - 8 Our annual Spring festival of exciting new work, STAGES focuses on bold, playful and innovative creations that push the boundaries of what theatre can be. From full productions to family offerings and interactive pieces, STAGES highlights new performances from Atlantic Canada and beyond.