Vancouver Fight Director Nicholas Harrison has personal reasons behind his choreographic choices, especially in Stickboy at the Vancouver Opera. Read the article:
Stickboy brings back painful memories for fight director Nicholas Harrison
He’s very careful about how he stages the violence for this show, knowing it firsthand. “I do not like gratuitous violence; it really takes away from what an author’s trying to say,” he says. “But these are very raw fights that will trigger, ‘Yeah, I remember that,’ or ‘I knew a kid that that happened to,’ or ‘Yeah, I was that bully.’ ”