'Third Party' turns insurance impersonality into Fringe theatre

It’s a scenario that many Manitobans find themselves facing: a seemingly mundane, bureaucratic, yet consequential conversation with an adjustor or claims representative from Manitoba Public Insurance. Ratchet up the stakes with a couple caught in the web of a detective-turned-adjustor who will do anything to uncover their secrets, and you have Brighter Dark Theatre’s latest contribution to the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Third Party

Award-winning composer creates new connections with musical time senses

Leillehua Lanzelotti can remember writing music from an early age growing up in Honolulu, but her voice as a composer did not fully emerge until she had moved far away. 

“As soon as I started composing, my connection to Hawaii and my homesickness at the time living in Europe came out immediately,” she recalls of her days pursuing a career in violin performance. “It was almost as though composition was an outlet for a lot of the ways that I was trying to express myself that I didn’t have other outlets for.”