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The Gate Theater Group
Northern Thailand's First English-language theater company
The gate theater announces
the 2019/ 2020 season!
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October 2019 marks the beginning of the 12th season for The Gate Theater, Chiang Mai’s first English language theater company.
The season will open on October 24 with Chiang Mai’s first annual Chiang Mai Fringe Festival of Performing Arts. Co-produced with the EXIT Theatre of San Francisco, the festival will be held at the KAD Studio Theatre and selected satellite locations nearby. The festival will run from October 24-27 from 12:00 pm until 9:30 pm each day. Applications will be accepted using a “first come, first served” selection process, so it is advisable that all applicants get their applications turned in as early as possible to be among those selected in this process. Applications are being accepted via this link until September 1st. Scroll down for more information about performing at the festival. For more information about the festival please write to gatetheater@gmail.com or phone 087 177 2195. |
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Coming December 12 through 15
An Inspector Calls An Inspector Calls by J B Priestley, is a play that revolves around the apparent suicide of a young woman called Eva Smith. In the play, the unsuspecting Birling family are visited by the mysterious Inspector Goole. He arrives just as they are celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft. The Inspector reveals that a girl called Eva Smith has taken her own life by drinking disinfectant. The family are horrified but initially confused as to why the Inspector has called to see them. What follows is a tense and uncomfortable investigation by an all-knowing Inspector through which the family discover that they are all in fact caught up in this poor girl's death. |
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February 27 through March 1
Harvey Elwood P. Dowd is an endlessly pleasant and delightfully eccentric bachelor living in a small town that isn't quite aware that its newest citizen is an invisible, 6 foot 3 inch white rabbit named "Harvey," that only certain people can see. It is a spring afternoon at the Dowd family home, and a tea party for the high-society ladies of the Wednesday Forum is in full swing. The hostess, Veta Louise Simmons, is hoping that the event will allow her daughter, Myrtle Mae, now in her twenties and still unmarried, to mingle with the mothers and grandmothers of some of the town's remaining eligible bachelors. However, to Veta's horror, her brother, Elwood, arrives home unexpectedly and in the company of his closest friend, Harvey. Veta and Myrtle Mae are mortified as Elwood begins introducing his companion to the ladies of the Wednesday Forum. The embarrassing family secret is now exposed, and all that Veta and Myrtle Mae can do is watch helplessly as their guests flee the house. This 1944 Pulitzer Prize Winning play has something for the entire family! |
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The EXIT Theatre of San Francisco along with The Gate Theater Group of Chiang Mai will present Chiang Mai’s first annual Festival for the Performing Arts at the KAD Studio Theatre and selected satellite locations nearby. The festival will run from October 24-27 from 12:00 pm until 9:30 pm each day. Applications will be accepted using a “first come, first served” selection process, so it is advisable that all applicants get their applications turned in as early as possible to be among those selected in this process. Applications are being accepted via this link until September 1st. In the event of an overflow of artists, we will use a lottery system to decide which performers will be featured.
Performers in the Fringe Festival receive two or more 60 minute performance slots. Additional performance slots may become available depending upon the number of performers who apply. The slots include limited technical support for lighting and sound and front of house staff. In order to help cover this service, applicants will be charged a 700 baht application fee and a 300 baht performance fee if they are selected to perform in the festival.
Performers or groups will choose their own ticket price of up to 400 baht and receive 100% of that amount paid to them. In the event that performers don’t hold a valid work permit, they must work with a Thai representative.
The Chiang Mai Fringe Festival is proudly open to a wide range of performers and groups of artists working independently in traditional forms as well as outside traditional forms. All performance styles are encouraged, from the avant-garde to the family friendly. Traditional and street theater, storytelling, dance/movement, experimental music, video/film, performance art, poetry, puppetry, comedy and improv, art installations, circus and cabaret.
Good luck to all of our performers! We can’t wait to see what you have planned for Chiang Mai’s first annual Fringe Festival for the performing arts!
Performers in the Fringe Festival receive two or more 60 minute performance slots. Additional performance slots may become available depending upon the number of performers who apply. The slots include limited technical support for lighting and sound and front of house staff. In order to help cover this service, applicants will be charged a 700 baht application fee and a 300 baht performance fee if they are selected to perform in the festival.
Performers or groups will choose their own ticket price of up to 400 baht and receive 100% of that amount paid to them. In the event that performers don’t hold a valid work permit, they must work with a Thai representative.
The Chiang Mai Fringe Festival is proudly open to a wide range of performers and groups of artists working independently in traditional forms as well as outside traditional forms. All performance styles are encouraged, from the avant-garde to the family friendly. Traditional and street theater, storytelling, dance/movement, experimental music, video/film, performance art, poetry, puppetry, comedy and improv, art installations, circus and cabaret.
Good luck to all of our performers! We can’t wait to see what you have planned for Chiang Mai’s first annual Fringe Festival for the performing arts!
Listen to Stephan Turner, Managing Artistic Director and Founder of The Gate talk about his vision for The Gate in 2013. Join us in seeing this vision through.
