Domesticated Disputes

Debuted as a short at the 2017 Play the Fool Festival in Edmonton, Domesticated Dispute is a one-woman neo-bouffon piece exploring domestic labour, motherhood, hysteria, & the call of the wild, created and performed by Marya Folinsbee and produced by Material Theatre.
Shorts featuring this character have been performed at various festivals and events throughout the West Kootenays.

In 2020, Domesticated Disputes was expanded from solo clown shorts to a 60 minute one-woman show, which debuted at the Capitol Theatre in Nelson, as part of their Homegrown Series. In 2021, it toured the West Kootenays and received rave reviews at the Nanaimo Fringe Festival.

Photos by John Marian and Forest Ferns Photography

Be/Longing

Be/Longing is a piece of original theatre written and performed by Marya Folinsbee and Martina Avis. This play explores the lives, past and present, of women in the Slocan Valley (Sinixt Territory), where the artists live. Created with support from the Slocan Valley Arts Council, Be/Longing premiered to a sold-out house at the Vallican Whole Community Centre on March 10th, 2018. The show subsequently toured the West Kootenays thanks to a Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance Touring Grant.

Photos by Iraleigh Anderson

Buttons & Pockets

Buttons & Pockets, performed at Touchstones Museum Mash, and at Winlaw Elementary School, is an interactive sewing lesson and a kid-friendly clown story about the fabric of reality, the magic of creativity, and the composition of the cosmos.

Big Water Coming

Big Water Coming was commissioned for the opening night of the New Denver Writer’s Convergence in June, 2019. It is a short play imagining the not-too-distant, not-too-bright future of pirate radio, poetry, and survival in the Valhallas. It was co-created and performed by Marya Folinsbee and Aaron E. Pickett.