Utility Company Theater: Brings edge to theater scene

'No Exit'Is it theater, or perhaps is it art? Could it be an active performance, or perhaps is it a motion picture experience? Utility Company Theater brings a definite edge to Vancouver's live entertainment scene using its experimental method of productions, pushing aside conventional limitations and keep audiences engaged -- frequently towards the extent they end up part of the show.Utility Company was created like a collective in 1996 by director Kim Collier, David Hudgins, Jonathon Youthful and author Kevin Kerr, who met while training at Studio 58. They've created original works in addition to adapt existing plays, by having an focus on physical and visual imagery, frequently crossing disciplines and integrating new media.In the 15th season, Utility Company has placed on 12 mainstage productions, gone on tour eight occasions across Canada, the U.S. and Scotland, written two scripts and it has won theater honours across the nation. Although its original intention ended up being to only produce new work produced by the organization, it's lately broadened the mandate to incorporate productions of existing scripts reinterpreting classics for example "No Exit," a effective undertake Sartre's classic having a motion picture approach which involves hidden cameras.Actually, its jobs are so motion picture that Trish Dolman wound up adapting its play, "The Score," for CBC.Utility Company is located inside a 6,000-square-feet building situated within the arty and decidedly indie Commercial Drive neighborhood, discussing the area with three other theater companies. "This degree of collaboration among organizations is sort of unique in Canada and reflects our earliest impulses like a company," states artistic director Kerr.Filmmaker John Manley has labored with Utility Company on several projects like a d.p. to assist realize large-scale video work/forecasts built-into happens performances. "I love to think about our relationship as collaborative -- as that's how generous individuals men are using their work," states Manley. "They're really getting an worldwide scope and pedigree to what's happening in theatre here."Next for Utility Company is really a re-picturing of Tad Mosel's "Completely Home" along with a project using the H.R. MacMillan Space Center. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com