Graphic Design Portfolio - Sevan Gunbilir
Final Version
Armenian Theatre Series
DRAMA
WASTENICEF ome to a place you've never been?
AN ARMENIAN TRILOGY
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Location: 630 Hamilton St. Vancouver, BC V6B 5N6
MODERN ARMENIAN DRAMA
Nishan Parlakian and S. Peter Cowe provide a comprehensive introduction to the history of Armenian drama, giving a valuable overvie of its importance verview and development in Armenia, as well as a brief biography for each playwright. A preface to each play helps in placing the work within the context of historical and cultural issues of the time.
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In this moving play set in current day Los Angeles, the central characters are a mar- ried couple, Haig and Sona, whose relationship has reached an impasse Going back and forth in time, the play juxtaposes the past, a family on the brink of a break down, with the present, where Haig lies in coma. Gathered around Haig's comatose body are his wife, their two daughters and his mother. As the story unfolds we watch the members of the family deal with the circumstances with a plethora of emotions. Often resorting to humor they each cope with the AN ARMENIAN
TRILOGY
DATE: AUGUST 22.2021 TIME: 2.30PM
How do you go home to a place never been? Composer reconnects with his
KOMIDAS MEDLEY FOLK SONGS DATE: AUGUST 21,2021 TIME: 2PM
Dan Yes & Symphony in to the 1.5 million souls lost Genocide. Fol- the Armenian low the journey to his ancestral homeland of Armenia as he s his own past and you
Komitas's output was modest: 80 choral works and songs, arrangements of the Armenian mass, and some dances for piano. But as his better-known compa- triot Aram Khachaturian acknowledged, he singlehandedly laid the foundations for Armenia's classical tradition. And as a collector and arranger of folksongs, he did for Armenia what Bartók did for simple material into Hungary, turning s bewitchingly sophisticated polyphony After a Komitas concert in Paris, Claude
Debussy declared that on the basis of a single song, he deserved to be recog- nised as a great composer. Yet many classical musicians barely recog- nise his name.
explores Armenia's rich history, culture, and music- featuring the world renowned Armenian Philharmonic int
Orchestra.
CONSTANTINOPLE DATE: AUGUST 22,2021 TIME: 4.30PM
In 1919 Constantinople, an Armenian wom- en's rights activist and an intrepid guerrilla fighter join forces to smuggle weapons and supplies into their ravaged homeland while spiriting out women and children abducted during the genocide. Other characters a dying poet rushing to complete his mag- num opus, a young feminist rescued from abduction, a rape victim forced to bear her assailant's child strive for some semblance of normalcy.
Nine Armenians is the story of three generations of Armenian-Americans embracing the future by connecting with their history. In this award-winning play, Leslie Ayvazian has beautifully depicted the reality of facing a horrific past without shame or fear. The Armenian Genocide is a particularly sen- sitive subject, as the Turkish government has never acknowledged it. The playwright takes a risk by shedding light on the painful recollec- tions of the past. But isn't this validation the only way to reach understanding and restore faith in the future?