Perceptual Archaeology (or How To Travel Blind)
2023 Premiere Stage Production Co-Produced by Fire and Rescue Team and Crow’s Theatre.
Explore Fire and Rescue Team’s Blind-Led Digital Art Space www.perceptualarchaeology.com.
What is it like to travel blind?
Blind artist Alex Bulmer welcomes you to her five part “talk” exploring this question.
Adapted for theatre from her original blind travel essays, Alex sets off on a dramatic journey that playfully twists and turns across differing geographies and unexpected emotional terrain. PERCEPTUAL ARCHAEOLOGY (OR HOW TO TRAVEL BLIND) is designed and created for blind and sighted audiences.
June 1 to 25, 2023 at Studio Theatre, Streetcar Crowsnest, 345 Carlaw Ave. Toronto, ON
Written and Performed by Alex Bulmer
Directed by Leah Cherniak
Produced by Laura Philipps for Fire and Rescue Team
Press
Perceptual Archaeology (Or How to Travel Blind): In Conversation with Alex Bulmer By Alethea Bakogeorge for Intermission Magazine
Thinking through your ears and planning through your feet interview of Alex Bulmer on CBC Fresh Air with Ismaila Alfa
Sex, travel and disability: during Pride, two new plays, ‘Access Me’ and ‘Perceptual Archaeology’ centre disabled actors’ experiences By Karen Fricker for Toronto Star
Alex Bulmer tells you all about her upcoming theatre production Perceptual Archeology (or How Travel Blind) (31:04) on Episode 802: Hour 1 NOW with Dave Brown
We speak with blind artist Alex Bulmer about the world premiere of her new theatre production, “Perceptual Archaeology”, 36 minutes in length, on Episode 1560 - Hour 1 on Kelly and Ramya via AMI.
Blind Imaginings (An Excerpt) by Alex Bulmer on akimbo The Cripsters column.
Reviews
“A worthy watch at the Streetcar Crowsnest from one of Toronto’s most exciting artistic voices.” - Intermission Magazine
“This little travelogue is a genuine tour de force,” - Leslie Barcza for barczablog
“Bulmer is a warm, charismatic, and whimsically unpredictable presence.” - Istvan Dugalin Reviews
“It works beautifully. Alex Bulmer has charm, curiosity, a gentle self-deprecating humour and a keen ability to describe her world through sound, touch, music, smell and awareness of what is around her.” - Lynn Slotkin for The Slotkin Letter
“I found the show insightful, touching and very funny.” - Review on Opera Ramblings
“PERCEPTUAL ARCHAEOLOGY gets us to think about the very way we perceive and move through the world, and, for the sighted, about the other ways in which experiences might be open to us.” - Ilana Lucas for Broadway World
“Deanna H. Choi and Thomas Ryder Payne’s pertinent sound designs allow the audience to climb into Bulmer’s skin and hear things from her point of view.” - Joe Szekeres for Our Theatre Voice