05/04/2020
Dear Twitches community,
Today would typically be our company's birthday, however this year we are writing with a different, bittersweet purpose. After 10 original and adapted creations, 11 productions, numerous community arts projects, mentorship initiatives, commissions, and charity fundraisers spanning an incredible 11 years, the gang at Twitches & Itches Theatre has decided the time has come to bring our collective project to a close. After many remarkable journeys together, the unique needs and interests of our various members required us at inevitable last to move in different directions. We've always been more of a band than a brand, and as sad as it is to let what has been such a rewarding undertaking end, we also know it is the right thing to do.
Twitches has always operated as a community within a community, and we are so thankful to everyone who has been part of this voyage with us. From the mostly emerging actors who decided to grow with us, devoting years to rigorous physical training and creation outside the major city centres, to the administrators and designers who saw value in our anarchic way of working,to the many community partners, especially the In the Soil Arts Festival where so much of our material and audience developed, and the Dramatic Art Department at Brock University which always went to bat for us, to our donors who helped us exceed every fundraising goal we ever set, to our municipal and provincial public funders who got behind experimental theatre--especially the St. Catharines Cultural Investment Program, which backed us every funding cycle since 2012--and above all to the audiences, who took us for the journey every bit as much as we did them, we are, beyond any possible expression, so very grateful.
It has been a privilege every step, song, headstand, lighting cue, curtain call of the way.
With so much love,
The Twitches gang.
*Curtain*
