Welcome Worm Fighter!
A worm fighter is urgently needed to go underground to do mortal combat with Worm, to save the city from destruction.
A gigantic worm lives underground. When he gets angry, he causes earthquakes. And right now he is very, very angry. A massive earthquake is set to strike at 8:30 am three days from now. The number of dead from such a quake would probably exceed a hundred and fifty thousand – mostly from accidents involving the communter system: derailments, falling vehicles, crashes, the collapse of elevated expressways and rail lines, the crushing of subways, the explosion of tanker trucks. Buildings will be transformed into piles of rubble, their inhabitants crushed to death. Fires everywhere, the road system in a state of collapse, ambulances and fire trucks useless, people just lying there, dying. A hundred and fifty thousand of them! Pure hell. People will be made to realize what a fragile condition the intensive collectivity known as ‘city’ really is.
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Let's Get Ready...
Rumble’s 2009/2010 season!
VANCOUVER – Octpber 7, 2009 Rumble Productions is thrilled to announce a powerhouse line-up of innovative new Canadian work, featuring a stunning array of local and national talent on stages around the city.
The season kicks off with Artistic Producer Craig Hall co-directing (with Pi Theatre Artistic Director Richard Wolfe) the Canadian premier of Haruki Murakami’s after the quake at Studio 16. Adapted for the stage by renowned American Director Frank Galati, after the quake takes its audience on a journey where magic and realism collide, in a touching exploration of disrupted reality in the wake of disaster.
Following on the heels of two critically-acclaimed runs in Vancouver and Toronto in 2008, our controversial co-production (with Theatre Replacement) of Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut heads to Whitehorse’s Yukon Arts Centre in January, before returning to Vancouver for an encore performance at Vancouver’s PuSh Festival. The tour of this award-winning show wraps up with a stop in Regina in April.
In March, Rumble will once again team up with 11 of Vancouver’s most adventurous independent theatre companies to bring you HIVE 3. HIVE has quickly become one of this city’s most popular theatrical events selling out far in advance, so be sure to get your tickets early. HIVE 3 is co-presented with the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad and will once again take place at The Centre for Digital Media (577 Great Northern Way).
The season will round up in April with the return of Rumble’s TREMORS Festival; presenting some of the very best of a new generation of contemporary performance. This season’s festival will take place at various venues in and around the Vancouver East Cultural Centre and will include new works from our Artists in Residence The Chop Theatre (creators of the Patti Fedy Trilogy and Townsville) and Theatre Melee (creators of Lazy Susan) as well as an award winning new work from Toronto’s Why Not Theatre. Keep an eye on our website for full festival details.
This season, as we reflect on 19 years of innovative and provocative art, we continue to explore perspectives on our collective history and the events and institutions that are currently shaping our lives. This is the vibrant and risky territory in which we thrive and we wouldn’t have it any other way!
-Craig Hall, Artistic Producer
Progress Lab 1422
Progress Lab 1422: New Cultural Hub Opens on Vancouver’s East Side
A consortium of four indie arts and culture organizations
– Boca Del Lupo, Electric Company Theatre,
Neworld Theatre and Rumble Productions – is very pleased to announce the grand opening of a
brand new rehearsal and administrative centre at 1422 William St., in the Commercial Drive area.
After 3 months of renovations, the 7,000 square foot former garment factory now has a full-size
rehearsal hall, and administration offices for the four companies. The hub is named after Progress
Lab, the larger informal and co-operative arts network that counts these companies as members.
“Many people have been working together for many years to make this happen,” says
Communications Chair Marcus Youssef. “There’s a well-documented crisis of accessible, affordable
rehearsal and production space in this community, and Progress Lab 1422 will help address that. It
will do so not only for our companies but also for the many cultural and civil society organizations in
this city who struggle to find safe, affordable rehearsal and meeting space. That struggle is a major
impediment to social and economic activity.”
Until recently the building was an old garment factory. “It’s a prime example of the economic and
social benefits of arts and culture,” notes Youssef. “This would have become a vacant building. We’re
bringing new jobs, our creative work and deeply held co-operative values to a community that we live
in and love. That’s what arts and culture does best.”
This renovation would not have been possible without the support of PL 1422’s founding investment
partners, the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Foundation. “We can’t thank them enough,”
Youssef says. “They listened, they committed, and now it’s up and running. This is what happens
when organizations pool resources and work collaboratively.” Additional in-kind support was also
provided by Vancity Credit Union and Vancity Capital.
Referring to the recent BC Government cuts to BC Gaming and planned cuts to the BC Arts Council,
Youssef adds, “We’ve completed this phase of the project without a penny from the Government of
BC, which – unlike Ontario and Quebec – has no cultural infrastructure program. But, with missing
walls and no equipment, we still have a long way to go. We hope the BC government will look at this
project, and the many others around the province like it, and recognize that stable and ongoing
investment in BC cultural and community organizations is not a frill. It’s good for the economy, good
for communities and good for BC. It’s an opportunity for them to invest in real legacy.”
The studio will launch with rehearsals for Electric Company's Canadian tour of award-winner No Exit.
Next up is rehearsals for Rumble’s After the Quake, followed by Neworld’s Ali & Ali 7 and Boca’s
Dance Marathon.
Blackbird takes home three Jessies
"...compelling theatre at its best - here augmented by excellent lead performances." ~ Globe and Mail
Rumble Productions is pleased to announce that Blackbird, produced by Rumble Productions and Theatre Conspiracy, received three awards at the 27th Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards Ceremony on June 15th at the Commodore Ballroom.
"It's a great honour to have received Jessie recognition for my work on Blackbird," said Norman Armour, "all the more meaningful with Jennifer and Russell also receiving a nod. It was an incredible team, a remarkable script, and a once in a lifetime opportunity that Rumble, Theatre Conspiracy and the Cultch made possible."
Norman Armour wins a Jessie award for Outstanding Direction, while Jennifer Mawhinney wins Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Lead Role, and Russell Roberts wins Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role.
Blackbird, by Scottish Playwright David Harrower, is a stunning theatrical examination of the fallout from an illicit sexual relationship between a middle-aged man and underage girl, revealing complex layers of human fallibility that go far deeper than legal definitions or a psychological profile. It’s a piece that involves viewers in an unfolding disaster, and tests their morality, sense of justice and level of compassion.
Blackbird also received one of five nominations for Outstanding Production in the Small Theatre Category. In addition, HIVE 2, an innovative production by eleven theatre companies, including Rumble, won an award for significant Artistic Achievement – Innovative Contribution to the Artistic Community.
