{"id":15930,"date":"2024-02-22T13:24:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=15930"},"modified":"2025-02-24T13:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:32:20","slug":"adjani-poirier","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/m-a-i.qc.ca\/en\/artist\/adjani-poirier\/","title":{"rendered":"adjani poirier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adjani Poirier is a multidisciplinary theatre artist who sometimes likes to experiment with sound art and radio. She is interested in creating work that explores the beauty and the ugly of the human experience, and is drawn to stories that reveal the complexity of navigating a world where systemic inequalities oppress yet love and connection still seep through the cracks, strong and fierce, giving us life. Their writing uses magical realism to explore ideas of home, queer desire and how the subconscious influences our relationship to each other and our physical surroundings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent plays include <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sinkhole (or six ways to disappear),<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the second-place winner of the Playwrights Guild of Canada Tom Hendry Emerging Playwright Award; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scorpio Moon,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which was featured in Centaur Theatre\u2019s 2022 Queer Reading Series; and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Celebrity Dogs<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, part of Boca del Lupo\u2019s national project Plays2Perform@Home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the support of MAI\u2019s alliance program, Adjani will be developing their new play <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One Spectacular Moment. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Historical fiction meets magical realism in<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this piece that<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">explores the connections between the historic Black community of Africville, urban renewal, Black feminism, the current housing crisis in Canadian cities and QTBIPOC activist movements of the 2010-20\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adjani is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada where she studied playwriting and has a BFA from Concordia University in Theatre and Development. 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