Donovan King
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Donovan King is a performance activist and experimental theatre artist from Montreal who also juggles acting, teaching, directing, dramaturgy, and theory. As the co-founder of the Optative Theatrical Laboratories (OTL) and creator of the international Infringement Festival, Donovan King strives to revitalise theatre as an agent for social change through experimental practice, critical theory, and sustained performance. The OTL designs interconnected theatrical campaigns that target instances of oppression, and employs a diversity of cutting-edge activist performance techniques: culture-jamming, Viral Theatre, Sousveillance Theatre, meme-warfare, Electronic Disturbance Theater, and Global Invisible Theatre, to name a few.
Donovan King holds a MFA degree in Theatre Studies (University of Calgary), a BFA in Drama in Education (Condordia University) and a DEC in Acting (John Abbott College). King is the author of "Optative Theatre: A Critical Theory", and he facilitates various activist campaigns and drama classes in Montreal.
King recently took issue with racism inherent in what has been called “Canada’s First Play” – the 1606 Theatre of Neptune in New France by Marc Lescarbot, and staged a counter performance called “Sinking Neptune” in Annapolis Royal on the day of the “400th Theatre Anniversary” (November 14th, 2006).
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Optative Theatrical Laboratories
"Optative Theatre: A Critical Theory for challenging Spectacle and Oppression"
