Public reading: excerpts from “Airport Security”
// June 5th, 2009 // No Comments » // News
Please join us for a reading of excerpts of Patrick Gauthier’s new play, “Airport Security“. The reading is taking place as part of the Great Canadian Theatre Company’s “Launch Pad” reading series on June 11, 2009.
Admission to the reading (which includes “Airport Security” as well as excerpts from two other new works by Ottawa playwrights) is free, and it all takes place at the Great Canadian Theatre Company, 1233 Wellington Street, in Ottawa.
More on Airport Security:
As travelers, are we as safe as we are led to believe? Are we in as much danger as we are led to believe? While Orange Alerts, shoe bombs, and overzealous Homeland Security officers may allow Canadians to look down smugly on our neighbours to the south, we should neither forget, nor be blind to, our own growing obsession with “security.”
Airport Security is based conceptually around the idea of being lost: airports are remarkably similar, utilitarian places; in-between points on a longer journey, where the pageantry of security is on full display. Airports are places where we see how hard the government works to confirm that We Are Safe, and for the most part, succeeds. Yet airports are also places of mistrust. Proof of identity always at the ready, passengers must do all they can to blend in. Standing out at an airport – behaviourally, socially, or racially – is dangerous. In Airport Security, you will experience the bleariness of excess travel – the out-of-place feeling brought about by hopping through time zones, and the excessive waiting under fluorescent lights and re-circulated air…
