Artist Talk - MORAG YOU’RE A LONG TIME DEID

Austrian director Peter Lorenz and Scottish-Canadian multidisciplinary creator and performer Claire Love Wilson have co-written and are co-producing the experimental musical MORAG YOU’RE A LONG TIME DEID. The piece warps, disrupts and reconfigures traditional Scottish storytelling and ballad singing, and follows the journey of the protagonist Sam as she endeavours to reconnect with her grandmother Morag’s silenced story. The project has developed over the last five years weaving between Canada, Scotland and Austria.
In this online talk, the two artists trace their joint long-distance collaboration. After the cancellation of MORAG’s scheduled world premiere at the PuSh 2021 International Performing Arts Festival due to COVID-19 related obstacles, they reflect on how their creation and rehearsal process has evolved in the face of the global pandemic. The creative team is joined by the artistic director of Touchstone Theatre Roy Surette and Hannes Machor, director of the Austrian cultural Forum in Ottawa, to examine the challenges for theatre in the time of Covid-19 with regard to the international co-production MORAG YOU’RE A LONG TIME DEID.