(Currently In Development)
The audience has come to watch a dusty old educational presentation about porcupines, created by the Canadian government in 1954. Will, a puppeteer, has been hired to come in today to animate it just like it would have been done back then. He has no idea what's in store for him.
How to Hug a Porcupine is a new theatrical comedy created by Adam Francis Proulx (BAKER'S DOZEN: 12 Angry Puppets). It is directed and dramatuged by Byron Laviolette (Morro and Jasp). The play is inspired by Arthur Schopenhauer's porcupine dilemma, which proposes as a metaphor for human interactions, that porcupines long to be close to each other, especially for heat in the winter, but if they get too close, they hurt each other.
SHOW HISTORY
The play was originally written in 2017 with the support of the Ontario Arts Council and a number of wonderful companies:
Toronto Fringe Festival
Theatre Gargantua
Suitcase in Point
The Theatre Centre
Roseneath Theatre
Theatre Direct
An initial development workshop happened in 2018 at Wychwood Barns Theatre in Toronto, thanks to the support of the Ontario Arts Council. And in 2021, thanks to the support of the Canada Council for the arts and the continuing support of the Ontario Arts Council, a virtual workshop occurred, resulting in an award-winning short film!
How to Hug a Porcupine is a new theatrical comedy created by Adam Francis Proulx (BAKER'S DOZEN: 12 Angry Puppets). It is directed and dramatuged by Byron Laviolette (Morro and Jasp). The play is inspired by Arthur Schopenhauer's porcupine dilemma, which proposes as a metaphor for human interactions, that porcupines long to be close to each other, especially for heat in the winter, but if they get too close, they hurt each other.
SHOW HISTORY
The play was originally written in 2017 with the support of the Ontario Arts Council and a number of wonderful companies:
Toronto Fringe Festival
Theatre Gargantua
Suitcase in Point
The Theatre Centre
Roseneath Theatre
Theatre Direct
An initial development workshop happened in 2018 at Wychwood Barns Theatre in Toronto, thanks to the support of the Ontario Arts Council. And in 2021, thanks to the support of the Canada Council for the arts and the continuing support of the Ontario Arts Council, a virtual workshop occurred, resulting in an award-winning short film!
2021 Virtual Workshop Trailer
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2021 Virtual Workshop Production Photos
We made a play and accidentally became a short film!
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Graciously funded by
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