too close to the sun
Too Close to the Sun is an independent theatre company devoted to the creation of devised solo work for the stage that brings together new and old stories in an innovative, revelatory way.
Sublime * A performer born for the stage * Extraordinary, must-see theatre * Absolutely astounding
a cautionary
tale about messages crossed, meanings lost, and what happens
when you can't
hold onto your own story
a boat to
an island from a lost heart to a cave, where a donkey has secrets
and an old man tells stories underground until the pieces start fitting
together
Founder Talya Rubin creates and performs physically devised solo pieces. From 2005 – 2008 she toured with her original solo plays, Ariadne's Thread and The Girl With No Hands to festivals in Adelaide, Melbourne, Montreal, Prague and Toronto. Both shows received five-star reviews, played to sold-out houses in Montreal and Adelaide, and were named one of the top ten plays in the Montreal Fringe. Talya was invited to perform the plays as part of Centaur Theatre’s Wildside Festival (a festival of 5 plays representing independent theatre from across Canada and around the world). The Australian Broadcasting Corporation commissioned Talya to adapt and perform Ariadne's Thread as a radio drama, broadcast nationwide. The Girl With No Hands was invited to be part of Summerworks Toronto in the Canadian Pavilion (5 plays are selected from across Canada to represent new work), where it was named one of the “outstanding performances” of the festival by NOW magazine. In 2008, The Girl With No Hands was nominated for a Montreal English Critics Circle Award for best new text. Talya has also collaborated with visual artist, Vida Simon on a short work entitled The Feather Box, involving a set created on an overhead projector with drawing and small objects. She is currently working with solo performer Nicola Gunn, as a dramaturge and co-devisor, collaborating on two new shows to be performed at La Mamma and Theatreworks in Melbourne. As a writer, Talya won Canada’s national Bronwen Wallace Award for poetry, was writer in electronic residence for Macleans Online and has been published in Grain, Matrix and ascent magazines. She was an invited guest at the Melbourne Poetry Festival, where she won the performance poetry award. She is currently working on an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia’s optional-residency program.
CONTACT: talyrubin@gmail.com