The Toronto Theatre Laboratory: highly challenging linguistic landscape presented at the University of Ottawa symposium
Art Babayants, of Armenian origin, has a doctorate in theatre performance, he taught acting in the theatre department of the University of Regina, is a pianist and the artistic director of the Toronto Laboratory Theatre. But those are only a few of his many talents. He was invited by professor Meerzon to bring in his cast who all speak several languages and who are interested in normalizing a linguistic landscape that presents a special form of diversity in the theatre. His work fits in perfectly with a research symposium entitled ‘Mediating Performance experiences: cultures and technologies in conversation’ which took place at the University of Ottawa organized by Dr Yana Meerzon, specialist in questions of theatre and immigration in Canada, as well as migration and multilingualism in European Theatre. …