A story told through dance, poetry, and magic.
Do You Want to Live Forever?
I was just living a normal life until he came along. Now it’s been three hundred years since I abandoned my plans. It’s fun living in the company of hedonists, but…. Should I keep living forever? How long is that? Will I exist forever? I don’t know. Maybe I’ll just join some cosmic dream soup.
“It’s unusual to walk into a room and experience beauty, but Do You Want To Live Forever? is an exercise in the sublime [...] I was captivated.” - David Currie, Apt613
"Travis Martin is eccentric but friendly as the mysterious immortal, and the rhymes flow as mellifluously from his lips as the dance moves do from the other performers. Alya Graham is spellbinding..." - Ian Huffam, New Ottawa Critics
Do You Want to Love Forever? has a run time of 60 minutes.
CREDITS:
ALLISON ELIZABETH BURNS Project Instigator, Choreographer & Performer | TRAVIS MARTIN, Co-Creator, Writer & Performer | ALYA GRAHAM, Collaborator & Performer | MARY WIGGIN, CLEO and TESSA Performers | TRISTAN HENRY and KAYLA MILMINE-ABBOTT Music | ROBIN TOLLER Dramaturg
Photos by Pat Holloway.
Teaser
Do You Want To Live Forever
Interview
Do You Want To Live Forever (Ottawa Fringe 2017)
"Do I want to live forever?
Hey, why not, so long as you're here with me
Do I want to breath forever?
Sure, I suppose that's part of the deal
Do I want to sleep forever?
Well, maybe not continuously
Do I want to exist forever?
Well, that seems inescapable
Do I want to love forever?
It's not something I can avoid with you in my life
Do you want to write forever?
I think I could finally outstripe Shakespeare if I did
Do you want to eat forever?
I'm not sure, how does it taste?"
-Travis Martin
Past Performances
June 8-17, 2017
Arts Court Theatre (2 Daly Ave., Ottawa, ON)
SHOW DATES & TIMES
Thursday, June 8 at 7:30pm | Saturday, June 10 at 10:30pm | Sunday, June 11 at 2:30pm | Tuesday, June 13 at 7:30pm | Friday, June 16 at 6:00pm | Saturday, June 17 at 9:30pm
Allison Elizabeth Burns is very grateful for the support of The School of Dance, Pure Kitchen, Black Sheep Theatre, The Gladstone Theatre, and the Ottawa Fringe Festival in helping to make Do You Want to Love Forever? come to life.
