Rumble Productions

a new generation of contemporary theatre

April 6 - 17, 2010
at various venues in and around The Cultch

Rumble’s emerging arts festival returns to showcase works created by some of this country’s most innovative new companies. This season's presentations include:

Cozy Catastrophe

created by Theatre Melee
in association with Rumble Productions

April 6 - 10 and 13 - 17, 9pm
at The Cultch

"…unabashedly, hilariously gross. This is a comedy for a traumatized world."  - Plank Magazine

Horrific events are overwhelming the entirety of human civilization. Four strangers must decide what to do with what could be their final hours.  Should they pray?  Fight back?  Repopulate the earth?  Or just get to know each other a little better? Cozy Catastrophe is a dark comedy about ordinary folks bound together by extraordinary circumstance.

Written by Courtenay Dobbie, Craig Hall, Andrew McNee, Erin Mathews, Michael Rinaldi and Juno Ruddell | Directed by Courtenay Dobbie & Craig Hall | Featuring Andrew McNee, Juno Ruddell, Erin Mathews and Michael Rinaldi|Sound Design by Michael Rinaldi | Fight Choreography by Kevin James

I’m So Close...

created by Why Not Theatre
in association with Toronto’s Theatre Centre

April 6 - 10, 7pm
at the Vancity Culture Lab at The Cultch

“This show made me laugh, it made me cry and it made me think. I’m So Close...is filled with controlled chaos, wonderful physicality, clever comedy, emotional poignancy and a sense of reality and grounding that only comes from experienced and talented performers. Brilliant."   - Plank Magazine

**Winner of the SPOTLIGHT AWARD at the Summerworks Theatre Festival**

 Steve finds himself plunged into the fast-paced world of billion dollar business in his desire to make the world a greener place. His success propels him to dive more and more into his iPhone and to drift further and further away from his wife Stella. I’m So Close… is a heartbreaking love song, droned out by the hum of the technological landscape that is bringing us together and pushing us apart.

Written by Nicolas Billon, Ravi Jain, Katrina Bugaj and Troels Hagen Findsen | Featuring Ravi Jain, Katrina Bugaj and Troels Hagen Findsen | Dramaturgy by Jennifer Tarver | Design by Trevor Schwellnus, Jamie Nesbitt, Gina Scherr, M.L. Dogg and Kelsey Hart

KISMET one to one hundred

created by The Chop Theatre
in association with Rumble Productions

April 13 - 17, 7pm and April 17, 3pm matinee
at the Vancity Culture Lab at The Cultch

"The Chop is probably the coolest of the younger generation of theatre companies in Vancouver." -Plank Magazine

Four artists set out across Canada to interview one hundred people, ages 1 through 100, about their experiences and beliefs around fate and destiny. What they discovered on the road – a myriad of personal stories of mystery, joy and endurance – becomes the anchor for a fascinating and moving show that blends the verbatim interviews with the imagination of the travellers.

Written by Anita Rochon, Emelia Symington Fedy, Hazel Venzon and Daryl King |  Directed by Anita Rochon | Featuring Emelia Symington, Fedy Hazel Venzon and Daryl King | Dramaturgy by Lois Anderson and Camille Gingras | Visual Design by Drew Facey | Lighting Design by Gina Scherr | Sound Design by Antoine Bédard

                                 

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PLUS:

Soon The Space Will Be Too Small

created by The Dusty Flowerpot Collective

April 7 – 10 and 13 – 17, 8PM - 10PM (every 20 mins.; limited capacity)
The Basement of The Cultch    
Created specifically for TREMORS, this installation-based micro-performance takes place within the nooks and crannies of The Cultch and offers audiences a uniquely immersive experience.

The Dusty Flowerpot Collective is an ever-evolving network of artists from unique mediums, encompassing theatre, visual arts, sound and music. They have a creative commitment to culture, celebration and the building of vibrant communities through collaboration.

 

urban ink’s New Works

Sal Capone: The Lamentable Tragedy
by Omari Newton

April 10, 3PM
Staged Reading in the Vancity Culture Lab at The Cultch    

The lives of three teenage boys are devastated when one of their best friends is shot and killed by police. Using elements of hip-hop, spoken word, experimental sound and video, The Lamentable Tragedy of Sal Capone examines the struggles found in Canadian inner cities.

ribcage: this wide passage
by Heather Hermant

April 16 – 17, 8PM
W2 Culture and Media House, 112 West Hastings

In September 1738, Esther Brandeau appeared before colonial authorities in Quebec City—an outed female and an outed Jew. Who outed her on either count, and how, remains in question. ribcage is a multidisciplinary archive that explores this little-known Canadian foundation tale.

urban ink production society was founded as Aboriginal Theatre Company in 2001. It creates and produces Aboriginal and diverse cultural works of theatre utilizing an approach which strives for the combination and integration of artistic disciplines. urban ink seeks to create new works which celebrate and bring together different cultural and artistic perspectives and inter-racial experiences.

 

TREMORS Showcase

April 10, 9PM
The Vancity Culture Lab at The Cultch    
Come support the young artists who’ll soon be shaking up the theatre scene! The TREMORS Showcase features original monologues and scenes by emerging actors and writers who have been “out there” for a maximum of 5 years. A fun, social alternative to general auditions, the showcase brings together artistic directors and producers with established and emerging artists and, of course, the audience members. The evening will feature each artist’s original work in a low pressure, casual atmosphere.

 

 
TREMORS was presented in partnership with The Cultch and the generous support of:

Media Sponsor:

Rumble would also like to thank its community partners for their generous donations:

Drive Organics, Ethical Bean Coffee, Fratelli Bakery, Geist, Green Thumb Theatre, It's All Fun & Games, Joe's Cafe, Santa Barbara Market, Sunrise Pizza, Uprising Breads Bakery, Urban Empire and Vancouver International Fringe Festival.

 

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co-produced by Boca del Lupo, Electric Company, Felix Culpa, Leaky Heaven Circus, neworldtheatre, Pi Theatre, Rumble Productions, The Only Animal, Radix, Theatre Replacement, Theatre Conspiracy and Victoria’s Theatre SKAM.

March 11 - 14 and 17 - 20, 2010
at The Centre for Digital Media (577 Great Northern Way)

“The buzz was right – this is the hottest ticket in town… some absolutely dazzling little displays of theatrical innovations.”  - Peter Birnie, Vancouver Sun on HIVE 2

Twelve of Vancouver’s most adventurous theatre companies create short installations in a party atmosphere. The audience experience is self-directed: choose when and where to see each site-specific show, then regroup for some theatrical social networking in the central lounge space. Past HIVE events have been wildly popular affairs with stimulating work on display, music, and dancing into the night.

Continuing with our tradition of mentoring emerging theatre companies, this season Rumble will collaborate with TigerMilk Collective on our HIVE 3 offering, You're Invited.

TigerMilk Collective is a company of women who are intensely aware of the commodification and packaging of identity in our pop-culture obsessed world. We tell our own collectively created stories and those of our heroes and insert our work into our fast-based urban environment.

HIVE 3 is presented with:

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created by Candelario Andrade, Owen Belton, Camille Gingras, Craig Hall, James Long, Anita Rochon, Jonathan Ryder and Maiko Bae Yamamoto

a Rumble Productions/ Theatre Replacement  co-production

January 19 - 23, 2010
Yukon Arts Centre (Whitehorse)

January 28 - 30, 2010
a PuSh Festival Presentation (Vancouver)

April 1 & 2, 2010
Curtain Razors (Regina)

“A powerhouse of wit and hard-learned wisdom as performed by an actor in a rabbit suit."  - Realtime Australia

“Clark and I proves that some human communication is still beyond the bounds of copyright – even other people’s memories.” -  Toronto’s Eye Weekly

Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut is one of the most notorious theatre pieces to come out of Vancouver in recent memory. In the summer of 2005, James Long salvaged seven photo albums and travel journals from an alley near his East Vancouver home. The collection, complete with detailed captions and letters, documents a family's history between 1950 and 1987, and includes everything from birth notices to a full eulogy for the archivist's Toy Pomeranian, Mandy. Two years later, a team of collaborators traveled in search of the origins of these books, and ran into some serious questions surrounding the legality and morality of working with found materials.

Clark and I uses fact, fiction, video, interviews, a rabbit suit and anything else required to make sense of these found materials and the many lives interrupted along the way.

Cast and Production Team:

Writer/Actor: James Long
Director: Craig Hall
Dramaturg: Camille Gingras
Assistant Director: Anita Rochon
Video Designer: Candelario Andrade
Sound Designer: Owen Belton
Lighting Designer: Jonathan Ryder
Movement Designer: Maiko Bae Yamamoto
Bunny Suit Designer: Allee Wells
Stage Manager: Jaimie Tait

Clark and I promo clip edited by Candelario Andrade on Vimeo:

 Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut was created with the generous support of:

Based on “Honey Pie” and “Superfrog Saves Tokyo”
From the novel after the quake by Haruki Murakami
Adapted for the stage by Frank Galati

a Rumble Productions /
Pi Theatre co-production
November 19 – December 5, 2009
at Studio 16 (1551 W. 7th Ave)

 
“…after the quake isn't just good live theatre--it's excellent, delicate, surreal, hilarious, and thought-provoking. It makes me want to go see more plays in this city.” - Beyond Robson

"I've never seen anything like it. And I loved every minute of it." -The Vancouver Courier

“It's the stuff of dreams.” - Georgia Straight

"The show is a must-see for anyone feeling that need to reach out, looking for a connection with someone. And fans of Murakami will feel like they’re experiencing his work for the first time while watching after the quake. Which is quite the treat, indeed."- Ubyssey
 

Rumble Productions and Pi Theatre present the Canadian premiere of after the quake, directed by Craig Hall and Richard Wolfe.

In 1995, a disastrous earthquake hit Kobe, Japan, and the Tokyo subway was hit by deadly poison gas attacks. after the quake is based on bestselling author Haruki Murakami’s stories about life in the wake of disaster. It takes its audience on a journey where magic and realism collide, in an exploration of disrupted reality. Junpei is a timid writer who enchants Sayoko, the love of his life, by conjuring up stories to soothe the anguish of her young daughter Sala, a girl who is having nightmares of the Earthquake Man. A talking bear makes the very best honey pies, and Katagiri, a bank loans officer, struggles to distinguish between what is real and what is not when six-foot Frog asks for help to fight off giant Worm for the future of Tokyo. Together, these stories explore the emotional aftershocks of disaster, and offer a message of hope and healing.

Cast:
Manami Hara
Alessandro Juliani
Kevan Ohtsji
Tetsuro Shigematsu
Leina Dueck

Production Team:
Set Design: Yvan Morissette
Lighting Design: Itai Erdal
Costume Design: Sheila White
Sound Design: Yota Kobayashi
Stage Management: David (DK) Kerr
Production Management: James Foy
Publicity: Bridge Communications
Illustration: Edward Kwong
Graphic Design: Kristen Johnson
Photography: Ken Bryant

 Media Sponsors:

National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre, Geist Magazine, The Powell Street Festival, and Biz Books are proud to be a community partners for this production.

 by David Harrower

a Rumble Productions / Theatre Conspiracy co-production

March 11 – 29, 2009
at the Vancity Culture lab at The Cultch

"...compelling theatre at its best - here augmented by excellent lead performances." - Globe and Mail

"Blackbird will be recognised as one of the greatest of modern dramas." - Daniel Schlusser, Realtime Magazine

Ray confronts a hidden past when Una arrives suddenly at his office in David Harrower’s explosive play, Blackbird. Guilt and raw emotions turn poisonous as they recollect a passionate but disastrous affair they had 15 years earlier. As tensions rise, we are left to question: where is the line between love and abuse? And can we ever break free from the shackles of the past?

One of the most talked-about plays to come out of London in years, David Harrower’s award-winning play has been featured on many London and New York critics’ top 10 lists.

Winner of three 2007/08 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards:

• Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role, Small Theatre for Russell Roberts
• Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Lead Role, Small Theatre for Jennifer Mawhinney
• Outstanding Direction, Small Theatre for Norman Armour
   

Cast:
Una: Jennifer Mawhinney
Ray: Russell Roberts
Girl: Mikela Vetro

Production Team:
Direction: Norman Armour
Sound design: Candelario Andrade
Costume design: Barbara Clayden
Set design: Barbara Clayden and John Webber
Lighting design: John Webber
Technical Direction: James Foy
Assistant Direction: Camille Gingras
Stage Management: Joanne PB Smith
Assistant Stage Management: Benjamin Cheung

by Courtenay Dobbie, Craig Hall, Andrew McNee, Erin Mathews, Michael Rinaldi and Juno Ruddell

A Theatre Melee production
in association with Rumble Productions

August 7 – 9 & 14 – 17, 2009
at the Factory Studio Theatre (125 Bathurst St., Toronto)
a SummerWorks presentation

"unabashedly, hilariously gross" - Alison Broverman, Plank Magazine

"Graphic blood and endless poop jokes…this is a comedy for a traumatized world." - Ann McDougall, Plank Magazine

Horrific events are overwhelming the entirety of human civilization. Four strangers must decide what to do with what could be their final hours.  Should they pray?  Fight back?  Repopulate the earth?  Or just get to know each other a little better? Cozy Catastrophe is a dark comedy about ordinary folks bound together by extraordinary circumstance.

Cast:
Walter: Andrew McNee
Winnie: Erin Mathews
Hume: Michael Rinaldi
Rhonda: Juno Ruddell

Production Team:
Direction: Craig Hall and Courtenay Dobbie
Dramaturgy: Andrew Templeton
Fight Choreography: Kevin James
Sound Design: Michael Rinaldi

Created and co-produced by Boca del Lupo, Electric Company, Felix Culpa, Leaky Heaven Circus, neworldtheatre, The Only Animal, Radix, Rumble Productions, Theatre Replacement, Theatre Conspiracy and Theatre Skam

A Magnetic North Presentation

June 5 – 14, 2008
At the Centre for Digital Media, Great Northern Way campus

“If you need proof that Vancouver is one of the most exciting theatre cities on the continent, head on down to Hive 2.” – Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight

A featured event in the 2008 Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Vancouver, HIVE 2 took over 2 warehouse spaces at the Digital Media Centre for a 9-day marathon of perspective-rocking, intimate, outrageous, and eclectic performances by 11 independent BC theatre companies. Building on the success of the original HIVE, the member companies of Progress Lab were commissioned by the Festival through a grant from Arts Partners in Creative Development. Veda Hille curated 9 bands for the after-show party each night, and Glenn Alteen of Grunt Gallery brought some seriously live artists to the cabaret space.

Rumble collaborated with Theatre Melee, a company-in-residence, on our Hive 2 offering, The End is Here!

The End is Here!

Four survivors in a post-apocalyptic world face an uncertain future. Should they try to fight back? Repopulate the planet? Or just get to know each other better?

Cast and Production Team:
Created by: Courtenay Dobbie, Craig Hall, Erin Mathews, Andrew McNee, Michael Rinaldi and Juno Ruddell
Produced by: Rumble Productions for HIVE 2
Direction: Courtenay Dobbie and Craig Hall
Performers: Erin Mathews, Andrew McNee, Michael Rinaldi and Juno Ruddell

 

created by Candelario Andrade, Owen Belton, Camille Gingras, Craig Hall, James Long, Anita Rochon, Jonathan Ryder and Maiko Bae Yamamoto

A Rumble Productions/Theatre Replacement co-production

January 29 - February 3, 2008
a PuSh Festival presentation

March 6 - 9, 2008
a FreeFall Festival presentation

"A powerhouse of wit and hard-learned wisdom. A remarkable production." - Real Time Arts Magazine

"Long is one of the best actors you'll ever watch." - The Georgia Straight

In the summer of 2005 actor/writer James Long salvaged a collection of seven photo albums and travel journals from an alley near his East Vancouver home. The collection, complete with detailed captions and letters, documents a family’s history between 1950 and 1987, and includes everything from birth notices to a full eulogy for the archivist’s Pomeranian, Mandy. In the fall of 2007, a team of collaborators went in search of the origins of these books and ran into multiple questions surrounding the legality and morality of working with found materials. What started as a simple trip to the country carried the creators on narrative jags across propriety, oceans, and beyond. Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut uses fact, fiction, video, interviews, a rabbit suit and anything else required to make sense of the found materials and the many lives interrupted along the way.

Cast and Production Team:

Writer/Actor: James Long
Director: Craig Hall
Dramaturg: Camille Gingras
Assistant Director: Anita Rochon
Video Designer: Candelario Andrade
Sound Designer: Owen Belton
Lighting Designer: Jonathan Ryder
Movement Designer: Maiko Bae Yamamoto
Bunny Suit Designer: Alee Wells
Stage Manager: Jaimie Tait
Technical Director: Liz Baca
Box Office Manager: Michael Fitzpatrick
Venue Technician: Katie Rainsley

Eye of Newt's Silent Summer Nights
a Rumble and Radix co-presentation

September 1 - 2, 2007
at Grandview Park, Commercial Drive (Vancouver)

An end-of-summer celebration in the Commercial Drive community that features classic movies accompanied by a live musical soundtrack.

Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill Junior (1928)

Screening: Saturday, September 1

Set on the Mississippi River in the old side-wheeler days, Steamboat Bill Jr. follows the adventures of a spoiled young man forced by his crusty father to learn the ropes of river boating. The film's crowning achievement is its hurricane climax.

Eye of Newt provides a touching and beautiful live soundtrack that brings this comic masterpiece to life.

Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)

Screening: Sunday, September 2

Nosferatu is that rare creature, a truly frightening and disturbing horror epic. An unauthorized production of Bram Stoker's work Dracula, the legal heirs didn't give their permission so the names had to be changed. But this wasn't enough: The widow of Bram Stoker won two lawsuits in which she demanded the destruction of all copies of the movie, however copies of it were already too widespread to destroy them all.

Featuring the renowned improvisational musicians, The Silent Summer Nights Monster Orchestra.

A Rumble Productions presentation
in association with the Here Be Monsters Collective

March 14 - 31, 2007
Performance Works, Granville Island

TREMORS Main Stage Presentations:

The Headless Cowboy

by Brad Payne

Broken Spoke Theatre (Calgary)
March 14 - 17

RAUNCHY ROCKABILLY SATIRE
Rock, revenge and an alien named Ginger With Knives!

The Headless Cowboy is a rockabilly satire merging music and performance with the visual strengths of theatre, dance and video bringing a fresh, comedic look at a heart-breaking tragedy in a multi-disciplinary performance by three of Alberta's most sought-after artists. The Headless Cowboy explores the nature of belief in a compelling tale. The titular Cowboy seeks revenge against Dead Man who shot off his head and kidnapped his girl - Cry Baby. Meanwhile, the alien Ginger with Knives is collecting sperm samples to start a human petting zoo.

"Manages to combine art, science, environmentalism and vampiric catholics into a smart sixty-minute satire." - Beyond Robson

Cast and Production Team:
Direction: Eileen Sproule
Performers: Brad Payne, Kristine Nutting, Kyrsten Blair, Andrew Payne and Ian Manhire

Fathom

by Jodi Essery and SaBooge Theatre

SaBooge Theatre (Montreal)
March 20 - 24

GROTESQUE PHYSICAL THEATRE
Convicts, Tasmania and an earth-shattering secret!

SaBooge transports us beyond the seas to the sun-parched tedium of Hobart Town, an infant colony farther from civilization than the moon. When a traveling naturalist discovers the colony's incredible secret, a convict mother and her extraordinary son break their silence, taking on the local gentry, its fundamentalist bigots, and the naturalist's earth-shattering claim, in an attempt to save the lives they have worked so hard to keep hidden. Fathom is a mesmerizing and engrossing tale of expectation and tragedy set in colonial Tasmania, a god-forsaken land that time and progress have long forgotten.

• WINNER—BEST PRODUCTION, ESB DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2004
• WINNER—BEST TEXT, MONTREAL ENGLISH CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD (MECCA) 2004
• WINNER—OVERALL PRODUCTION & TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT, TALKIN' BROADWAY 2005 SUMMER THEATRE FESTIVAL CITATION

"A marvellous piece of stagecraft." - The Georgia Straight

Cast and Production Team:
Performers: Attila Clemann, Patrick Costello, Kayla Fell, Adrienne Kapstein and Andrew Shaver
Sound Design & Music Composition: Jeff Lorenz
Production & Lighting Design: Simon Harding
Stage Management: Audrey Finkelstein

Yu-Fo

by James Long and Maiko Bae Yamamoto

Theatre Replacement (Vancouver)
March 27 - 31

HAUNTING MUSICAL STORYTELLING
A mysterious hitchhiker, a BC highway and a really juicy peach!

YU-FO is a new creation by Theatre Replacement that brings together an exciting group of collaborators to further the company's artistic practice and creation methodology. Conceived and written by Theatre Replacement's artistic director Maiko Bae Yamamoto, Yu-Fo follows the interactions one fateful night between a Canadian man and the mysterious Japanese woman he encounters at a side-of-the-road diner off the breathtaking Sea-to-Sky highway in BC.

"Yu-Fo is so deliberately, deliciously strange and so wildly off the wall that this is decidedly not the week for fans of conventional theatre to be haunting Performance Works."  - Vancouver Sun

Cast and Production Team:
Performers: James Long, Maiko Bae Yamamoto and Veda Hille
Direction: Amiel Gladstone
Musical Composition and Direction: Veda Hille
Music Performance: Mark Petersen
Movement Direction: Sarah Chase
Lighting Design: Itai Erdal
Stage Management: Kelly Barker

ALSO SHAKING AT TREMORS:

Salon Des Refuses Gallery

March 14 - 31
Performance Works, Granville Island

The Here Be Monsters Collective present the Tremors Monster Bar and "Salon Des Refusés" Gallery. Featuring some of Vancouver's most respected (and rejected) low-brow artists! Join us for a drink and a stroll through our unique and freaky gallery.

BootCamp (Workshop)

March 19 - 27
Capri Hall, 3925 Fraser St
 

This intensive workshop with John Turner (Smoot of “Mump & Smoot”) is designed to be a catalyst for a more expansive concept of what clown is and how it can be used. Using various writing and development techniques and exercises to evoke both left and right brain involvement, the participants explore their own unique approach to the creation of material and performance.

Waking The Clown (Workshop)

March 24
Playhouse Production Centre, 160 West 1st Ave
Hosted by SaBooge Theatre

Brought together by their training at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, SaBooge Theatre is a critically acclaimed ensemble whose filmic, image-based physical performances combine rigor, pedagogy, and a boundless collective imagination. Waking The Clown will explore clown-based character creation through games and exercises exploring hierarchy, identification and development of theme and simplicity of play. Through improvisation we will discover how to have immediate contact with your audience, how to expose the ridiculous in yourself and how to become a channel for the unexpected.

(Photo by J.J. Titzou, featuring Andrew Shaver & Attila Cleman)

Show-Off: Foreshocks & Aftershocks

A theatre company, a line of text, an image, a sound byte, and a limited time to create a short show. You may have heard of this recipe before, but you’ve never seen it like this! Inspired by Show Off: Theatre Under the Gun and HIVE, 3 hot emerging companies will be given six days to create a performance that will take place in and around Performance Works — anywhere except the stage, because why make it easy?! Arrive early, grab a drink at the Monster bar and witness the mayhem!

Friday, March 16th and Saturday, March 17th
Screaming Flea
Friday, March 23rd and Saturday, March 24th
Theatre Melee
Friday, March 30th and Saturday, March 31st
The Chop

St. Patty’s Day Psychobilly Hoedown!

March 17
Performance Works, Granville Island

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day and join us for a wicked night of live music with the Cryptomaniacs, the notorious Psychobilly band from Calgary!

by Greg MacArthur

November 23 - December 9, 2006
at Performance Works, Granville Island

"This script will never look better. Every aspect of director Craig Hall's production is extraordinary." - The Georgia Straight

"Rumble Productions scores again with Greg MacArthur's depressing, biting and brilliant comedy." - The Globe and Mail

A new work by Greg MacArthur, one of this country's most exciting and subversive playwrights. Around the world, people are succumbing to the addictive pleasures of a mysterious new substance. Society is threatened. But not to fear, “They” are taking care of everything. A speculative examination of an addicted world and the ramifications of a 500 billion dollar pharmaceutical industry, recovery is a sometimes funny, sometimes horrific tale about the commodification of fear and the oppression of the individual.

Nominated for six 2006/07 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards including:

•Outstanding Production Large Theatre
•Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role - Sean Devine
•Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Kathleen Duborg
•Outstanding Lighting Design - John Webber
•Outstanding Direction - Craig Hall
•Significant Artistic Achievement - Projection Design - James Nesbitt

Cast:

Mya: Anna Cummer
Ben: Sean Devine
Clare: Kathleen Duborg
Leroy: Charlie Gallant
Ash: Allan Morgan
Alex: Alex Pimm

Production Team:

Director: Craig Hall
Assistant Director: Emelia Symington Fedy
Stage Manager: Joanne P.B. Smith
Assistant Stage Manager: Tyler Bate
Set Designer: Yvan Morissette
Lighting Designer: John Webber
Costume Designer: Barbara Clayden
Projection Designer: James Nesbitt
Technical Director: Jonathan Ryder
Box Office Manager: Bruce Stuart
Venue Technician: Glenn Donald

recovery was a part of See Seven, Vancouver's passport to professional, independent theatre. 

Created and produced by Boca del Lupo, Electric Company, Felix Culpa, Leaky Heaven Circus, neworldtheatre, the Only Animal, Radix, Rumble Productions, Theatre Replacement, Theatre SKAM, and Western Theatre Conspiracy.

November 9 - 11, 2006
at The Chapel (304 Dunlevy Avenue, Vancouver)

"Hive blew my mind. It’s one of the most exciting artistic events I’ve ever experienced." - Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight

Eleven performance cells clustered around a central bar. Each participating company creates an intimate, short theatre piece, performing it for no more than twenty people at a time, at repeated intervals over the course of the evening. Audience members grab a drink and select from a menu of performances, according to their own tastes and inclinations. They can see all 11, pick and choose, or just hang at the bar, and cross-pollinate. At HIVE, everyone's the Queen Bee.

Rumble's HIVE offering was devised and presented by Artists-in-Residence, The Chop (Anita Rochon & Emelia Symington Fedy).

2 Truths + 1 Lie = Proof

"I loved the show 2 Truths + 1 Lie = Proof, by a small company called the Chop, which Rumble Productions presented. Anita Rochon and her dad, Paul Rochon, perform a scene from David Auburn’s play Proof. Through headsets, we also get to hear confessions and secrets from the real-life father and daughter. Two out of every three of these are true. The third is false. This piece is a fantastic meditation on the tension between authenticity and artifice both in theatre and within families." - The Georgia Straight

A father and daughter team up to perform excerpts from Proof, by David Auburn. Armed with an old walkman, each audience member listens to a cassette containing a recording of the family members telling two truths and one lie about their personal lives, in tandem with watching them perform in character. Can you guess the truth? Does your knowledge of their dirty secrets effect the way you watch them perform? This funny and honest piece delivers an intimate experience with the performers while experimenting with how personal history affects public performance.

Cast and Production Team:
Created by: The Chop
Produced by: Rumble Productions for HIVE
Direction: Emelia Symington Fedy
Performers: Anita Rochon and Paul Rochon

Visit www.buzzbuzzbuzz.ca for more information.

A Section 8 Productions collective creation
produced in association with Studio 58

 April 27 - May 6, 2006
Performance Works, Granville Island

"Terrible Things is an exciting example of how the right kind of edifice complex can lead to the construction of memorable theatre." - The Vancouver Sun

"If there is any justice in the theatre world, both director Craig Hall and this razor-sharp ensemble will be pelted with awards." - The Discorder

Into an eerie darkness enter the seven members of the Stipple family and their indentured servant. Their demeanor is proud but each of their steps is exact and cautious, as if the slightest deviation might prompt the audience to pass judgment on their secrets. So begins Terrible Things, a chronicle of the wealthy, prestigious and morally vacant Stipple family.

A feat of mischievously delightful ensemble storytelling, this collective creation is inspired by a few of history's most notorious characters and the works of author and illustrator Edward Gorey.

"It's not who you are, it's what people see. So though there is pain, always dignity. Which is why we take care to be well to do. The truth doesn't matter, except if they knew." - Terrible Things

Cast:
Eleanor Stipple: Rebecca Ananda
Mirella Stipple: Evangela Dueck
Edith the Maid: Gemma Isaac
Pastor Gritch: Daryl King
Lucy Stipple: Cat Main
Tawnon Stipple: Donna Soares
Dora Stipple: Stacie Steadman
Henry Stipple: Lee Vincent

Production Team:
Director: Craig Hall
Assistant Director: Tasha Faye Evans
Stage Manager: Naomi Sider
Dramaturg: Adrienne Wong
Assistant to the Director/Dramaturg: Leah Syskakis
Lighting Design: Itai Erdal
Marketing Photography: Carrie Richardson feat. the cast of Terrible Things
Production Photography: Itai Erdal

by David Greig

a Rumble Productions/Studio 58 co-production

October 6 - 23, 2005
at Studio 58, Langara College

"Director Norman Armour and his team deliver a handsome production. Craig Hall's set-a foreshortened bit of freeway leading to a rectangular opening that continually varies in size-is a lyrical piece of sculpture. In its articulate combination of airplane roars and spacy keyboard tinkling, Nick Powell's sound design is similarly hip and melancholy." - The Georgia Straight

San Diego is a lyrical and emotionally charged look at modern society and our universal longing for a sense of home, comfort and belonging. Scottish playwright David Greig weaves together a series of connecting and diverging stories that stretch around the globe into a single compelling narrative of tremendous scope: stories of illegal immigrants, of pilots, film stars and escort women, of the making of 'Band on the Run', and of Greig himself.

"Co-ordinated universal time - aeroplane time - is the only time we experience which never changes. The cabin of the aircraft is the only space where we can be certain that we belong. We have a ticket with our name on it. On the seat in front of us there is a map which shows us clearly where we are going. And we are going forwards." - San Diego

Cast:
Andrew, San Diego Cop, David B: Joshua Dixon
David Greig: Alexander Ferguson
Stewardess, Receptionist, Paul McCartney's Receptionist: Nicole Gordon
The Pilot: Allan Gray
Pious, David A, The Bedouin Tribesman: Patrick Keating
David: Daryl King
Marie: Cat Main
Amy, Mother Superior: Lissa Neptuno
Daniel: Stuart Pierre
Laura: Emma Slipp
San Diego Cop, Sarah: Kyla Read
The Counsellor: Hazel Venzon
Innocent, David C: Nathan Zeitner

Production Team:
Director: Norman Armour
Set Designer: Craig Hall
Costume Designer: Barbara Clayden
Lighting Designer: John Webber
Sound Designer: Nick Powell
Assistant Director: Kris Nelson
Voice Coach: Dale Genge
Photographers: David Cooper & Tim Matheson
Cutter: Patrice Godin
Special FX Make-Up: Patrice Godin
Front of House Manager: Samara Van Nostrand

A Rumble Productions/Eye of Newt/Radix Theatre/Rime co-production

September 2 - 4, 2005
Grandview Park, Commercial Drive at William Street, Vancouver

The 5th annual Silent Summer Nights offered three glorious evenings of the best in silent (and not so silent) film--with the thrilling accompaniment of original live music by Eye of Newt and special guests. A Labour Day classic.

The Man who Planted Trees (1987)

Screening: Friday, September 2

Winner of the Academy Award for “Best Short Film, Animated”, this cinematic gem is a true homage to nature—telling the story of one man who turns a desert into a forest. Featuring live accompaniment by Stefan Smulovitz (viola/laptop), Viviane Houle (voice), Pepe Danza (winds/percussion), and Peggy Lee (cello).

A Soldier's Tale (1918)

Screening: Friday, September 2

Igor Stravinsky's translation of the Faustian tale into a mundane context, where a soldier's experiences as he struggles with temptation are more like our own. This is a Faust we can feel sorry for! Featuring live accompaniment by Stefan Smulovitz (viola/laptop), Viviane Houle (voice), Pepe Danza (winds/percussion), Peggy Lee (cello), with naration by Andrew Laurensen.

Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

Screening: Saturday, September 3

Sweeping shots of nature clash with images of city grids, factories and cars flying down busy streets: modern life is out of balance. Godfrey Reggio collaborates with cinematographer Ron Frike (Baraka) to create a defining cinematic tale of life inside modern technology, our “beautiful beast.” Featuring live accompaniment by Chris Kelly (sax/laptop), Randall Schmid (guitar), Pete Schmitt (bass), Skye Brooks (drums)

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Screening: Sunday, September 4

Based on the 1905 failed uprising against tsarism in Russia, this landmark film dramatises the historical mutiny of Battleship Potemkin's malnourished crew. Director Sergei Eisenstein, master of metaphor and montage, captures the strength and the spirit of humanity in a symphony of images. Featuring live accompaniment by the SSN Monster Orchestra with conductor Coat Cooke and assistant conductors Giorgio Magnanensi and Stefan Smulovitz.

A Rumble Productions/Eye of Newt/Radix Theatre/The Celluloid Drugstore co-production

September 3 – 5, 2004
Grandview Park, East Vancouver

The 4th annual Silent Summer Nights presented three evenings of the best in silent (and not so silent) film—with original live music by Eye of Newt and special guests.

Winged Migration (2001)

Screening: Friday, September 3

Get ready to soar! Explore the mystery and beauty of flight, traveling with a myriad of birds through the saga of migration. Using air balloons, gliders, and a host of other cinematic tricks, the same filmmakers who brought you Microcosmos give you a rare chance to fly along with the flock. Featuring live accompaniment by Pepe Danza (percussion), Chris Kelly (saxophone and laptop), Stefan Smulovitz (viola and laptop) and Brad Turner (trumpet).

Modern Times (1936)

Screening: Saturday, September 4

Charlie Chaplin’s last ‘silent’ film. Watch as Charlie battles against the machine age and modern progress as he wrestles with a factory production line, gets selected for an experiment with an automatic feeding machine and lands himself in a mental institution — and that’s just half of it! This classic is suitable for Chaplin fans of all ages. Featuring live accompaniment by Brad Muirhead (trombone), Ben Wilson (drums & electronics), Tony Wilson (guitar) and Jesse Zubot (violin).

Enter The Dragon (1973)

Screening: Sunday, September 5

A weekend of great cinema wouldn’t be complete without the master of kung fu, Bruce Lee. Playing a Shaolin monk, Lee is recruited to infiltrate an opium ring responsible for the death of his sister and faces off against competitor after competitor in a tournament sponsored by a one-handed crime boss. A classic martial arts movie of grace and timelessness with a sensational new live score conducted by Coat Cooke and surprise guests and performed by the SSN Monster Orchestra.

January 14 – 31, 2004
Vancouver, BC

The second year of Rumble Productions/Touchstone Theatre’s PuSh International Performance Series featured four exciting contemporary works from Canada and abroad.

MAIN STAGE PRESENTATIONS:

Kaleidoskop Theatre (Copenhagen)

K.

Written/directed by Martin Tulinius

January 14 - 24
Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC

Winner of Denmark’s most prestigious theatre award, K. is a passionate and humanist portrayal of Franz Kafka, one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Copenhagen and Vancouver join forces in this new English translation that stars Patrick Keating, Karen Konval, Jamie Long and Allan Morgan. This unique international co-production is a PuSh initiative with Theatre at UBC.

Mammalian Diving Reflex (Toronto)

A Suicide Site-Guide to the City

Written by Darren O’Donnell
Directed by Rebecca Picherak

January 21 - 24
Firehall Arts Centre

A premier performance of a new work by one of Canada’s most beguiling creators.

“There are parts of this performance which would be best served if I were to shed some tears; some emotional segments that would be all that more effective if I were to be weeping. But, as I’ve mentioned, I feel dead these days, leaden, empty; I can barely feel my own flesh let alone the urge to burst into tears. Which explains the presence of this onion. I hope you will forgive me this one small deception.”— from A Suicide Site-Guide to the City

Trial & Eros (Montreal)

The Birds, Burnt Norton and Fuse

Choreographed by Deborah Dunn

January 28 - 31
Scotiabank Dance Centre

Theatre meets dance, meets Alfred Hitchcock in this trio of profound and witty new works by Montreal-based choreographer and performer, Deborah Dunn. Intrigued by the collision of past and present, Dunn uses striking visuals, stunning movement and a quirky sense of humour in this collection of work inspired by cultural icons of the modern era.

One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre (Calgary)

Sign Language: A Physical Conversation

Created and Performed by Denise Clarke

January 30 - 31
Scotiabank Dance Centre

Denise Clarke promises only to dance and talk about it after. Why? She mentions something about “salon performance,” defining it as an opportunity to communicate with her audience in the intimate confines of the theatre. She insists she’ll take questions afterwards. She says she will do anything she feels like. She wants to entertain. She wants to move people. She wants to dance. One Yellow Rabbit says why the heck not.

SATELLITE EVENTS:

ARTIST ROUNDTABLES

Ginger 62, Ramada Inn on Granville at Davie

Join us for an intimate discussion with our internationally acclaimed artists.

Martin Tulinius Friday, January 16 5PM
Darren O’Donnell Friday, January 23 5PM
Deborah Dunn / Denise Clark Friday, January 30 5PM

BRAVO!FACT

Scotiabank Dance Centre
January 19

An evening of the best and newest video productions from across Canada. Post-screening reception hosted by Judy Gladstone, Executive Director of Bravo!FACT.

LOSING YOURSELF

January 26 - 27

A creation workshop focusing on new forms of dramatic writing and performance in which character, plot and conflict take a back seat to community, history and experience. Lead by Darren O’Donnell author/creator of pppeeeaaaccceee, White Mice, Boxhead, Who Shot Jacques Lacan?, and Radio Rooster Says That’s Bad. Come prepared to move, talk, write and act.

STAGED READING OF THE TRIGGER

by Carmen Aguirre

Friday, January 2
Firehall Arts Centre

Catch a glimpse of PuSh 2005 with a provocative new work by one of Touchstone Theatre’s Playwrights in Residence, Carmen Aguirre (Chile Con Carne and The Refugee Hotel). This interdisciplinary work combines trapeze work and live music with Aguirre’s taut political text, in a deeply personal story about the ripples of a violation through time.

LECTURE DEMONSTRATION
The Work of Martin Tulinius

January 16
Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC

Tulinius is honoured with being the first theatre artist to win Denmark’s highest awards as both a director and set designer. From original theatre to innovative stagings for the music of Arnold Schoenberg and Eric Satie, to interdisciplinary creations and opera, Tulinius is both a striking and provocative example of a European scenographic tradition.
 

A Radix Theatre/Rumble Productions/The Celluloid Drugstore co-production

August 29 – 31, 2003
Grandview Park, East Vancouver

The 3rd annual Silent Summer Nights featured three fantastic evenings of the best in silent (and not sosilent) film. Park your blanket under the stars and enjoy cinema’s “Great Adventures,” with original live musical accompaniment by Stefan Smulovitz's brilliant Eye of Newt ensemble, The Ron Samworth Quartet and the SSN Monster Orchestra.

The Railrodder (1965) & Ashik Kerib (The Lovelorn Minstrel, 1988)

Screening: Friday, August 29

Buster Keaton does Canada in a one-man train car. The Railrodder is an endless series of inspired sight gags showing that the aging master could still cut it. Then travel east for Ashik Kerib – the suitor of a merchant’s daughter is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a thousand and one nights. Mesmerizing cinematic poetry. Featuring The Ron Samworth Quartet.

The Blue Planet – The Deep (2001) & Le peuple de l’herbe (Microcosmos, 1996)

Screening: Saturday, August 30

Come on in, the water’s fine. The Blue Planet – The Deep will take you a thousand metres down to a marine twilight zone that covers over half the Earth’s surface. Emerge to dry land for Le peuple de l’herbe. Close-ups, slow motion and time-lapse photography capture the trials and tribulations of the insect world in all its glory. Suitable for entomologists of all ages. Featuring Eye of Newt.

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

Screening: Sunday, August 31

A weekend of Great Adventures wouldn’t be complete without something Greek. The legendary hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers on a perilous quest for the treasured Golden Fleece. With guest conductor Coat Cooke and SSN Monster Orchestra.
 

April 15 – 26, 2003
at Performance Works, Granville Island

 The finest in fresh, homegrown theatre. Rumble's The Young & The Restless showcased two daring young companies and premiered two original Canadian plays.

then she

by Adam Cowart

a Shifting Point Theatre production

Set in present day Vancouver, then she tells the story of a husband and wife who must come to grips with the disappearance and possible murder of their daughter, and the subsequent impact it has on their relationship with those around them, and to each other. Conversations between characters are replayed over and over again. Multiple strains of dialogue are intertwined together to create a disorientated state that gives expression to the nightmarish world these characters have been plunged into. The lines between reality, fantasy and memory blur as the playwright weaves together a play that examines loss, love, and the outer regions of justice and personal civility.

Cast:
Heather Hare: Andrea Johnston
Dave Hare/Bill Strix: Andrew Olewine
Jordan: Paulo Ribeiro
Anne: Toni Rozylo
Tom Wright: Brendan Stitchman
The Woman: Adrienne Wong

Production Team:
Direction: David Gram

Snowman

by Greg MacArthur

a Section 8 Theatre production

Snowman is a darkly comic journey into a frozen, emotionally-barren landscape of ice and snow. Set in a remote community at the edge of a glacial sheet, the play is a psychological investigation into the lives of four characters struggling with issues of isolation and identity. Told in a series of interwoven monologues, the story delves into the lives of a young couple in their 30s and their teenage friend, as they eek out a marginal existence - cutting wood, watching porn, building snowmen. Cut off from society (and from themselves) they are all stuck in their own isolating existence.

The production earned six Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nominations, winning in the category of Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Derek Metz).

Cast:
Jude: Kevin MacDonald
Marjorie: Judy-Kay Marklew
Denver: Derek Metz
Kim: Erin Monahan

Production Team:
Direction: Craig Hall
Sound Design/Live Accompaniment: Robert Perrault
Lighting/Set Design: Yvan Morissette

January 14 – 19, 2003 : Jimmy
January 28 – February 1, 2003: Shadows
March 26 – April 5, 2003: Dream Machine

Created by Rumble Productions and Touchstone Theatre, the PuSh International Performance Series is a collection of brave new works from Canada and beyond. Three internationally acclaimed artists in three Vancouver venues over three months.

MAIN STAGE PRESENTATIONS:

Infrarouge Theatre (Montreal)

Jimmy                                                                  

Created and performed by Marie Brassard

January 14 - 19
Studio 16, 545 West 7th Avenue                                  

Jimmy is an outstanding performance piece about love, desire and the pleasure of creation. Marie Brassard is best known as a long-time collaborator of Quebecois auteur Robert Lepage. Performances in both English and French.

William Yang (Australia)

Shadows

Created and performed by William Yang

January 28 – February 1
Roundhouse Community Centre

William Yang is a storyteller whose powerful images and ideas have moved audiences all over the world. Yang's performing style is understated, leaving room for the images to imbue the story with their humanity, and for the original instrumental and vocal music of Colin Offord.

One Yellow Rabbit (Calgary)

Dream Machine

by Blake Brooker and David Rhymer

March 26 – April 5
Vancouver East Cultural Centre

At the centre of the 1950s Beat circle, William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin worked tirelessly to build the enigmatic Dream Machine, a device that used flickering light to alter brain waves and plunge the user into a waking dream state, free from the influences of advertising and mass culture. Blending live and electronic music, haunting visuals and One Yellow Rabbit's trademark physicality, Dream Machine is a radical departure from both the traditional theatre musical and the conventional biopic.

 by Marie Clements

a Rumble Productions/Firehall Arts Centre presentation

April 23 – May 11, 2002
Firehall Arts Centre

This new commission by internationally acclaimed playwright Marie Clements (The Unnatural and Accidental Women) traces the journey of uranium rock from Northern Canada - embedded in Sahtu Dene - through water, over land, and into fire: the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. Both tragic and irreverent, Burning Vision weighs the burdens of our ancestors as they travel through time, across continents and in our genes to cast shadows on the present. Developed in partnership with the Banff playRites Colony and Playwrights' Workshop Montreal.

Burning Vision received five Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nominations, including one for Outstanding Production.

Cast:
Nathan Dubois as Little Boy
Marcus Hondro as Brother Labine 2/The Miner/Stevedore
Hiro Kanagawa as Koji
Margo Kane as The Widow/The Japanese Grandmother
Kevin Loring as Brother Labine 1/The Dene Ore Carrier/Stevedore
Julie Tamiko Manning as Round Rose/Tokyo Rose
Allan Morgan as Fatman/ Captain Mike
Lisa C. Ravensbergen as Rose
Erin Wells as Radium Painter

Production Team:
Production: Norman Armour
Direction: Peter Hinton
Dramaturgy: Paula Danckert
Stage Management: David Kerr
Assistant Stage Management: Brandy Hanuse Corlett
Costume Design: Barbara Clayden
Props Design: Erinne Drake
Sound Design: Noah Drew
Technical Director: Ken Hollands
Set Design: Andreas Kahre
Lighting Design: John Webber
Administration: Ilena Lee Cramer

by Noah Drew and Adrienne Wong

September 5 – 16, 2001
The Firehall Arts Centre

A Tangled Tongues Performance production

A man moves into his lover's apartment ... China 'reunites' Tibet with the Motherland ... a young girl holds the belly-less carcass of a pigeon between her palms ... a hand is placed beneath a master's foot. Fiction wrestles with history, sexuality collides with cultural politics, and nations struggle for power in the story of one couple's jockeying for position on their west-coast futon.

Cast and Production Team:
Creation and performance: Noah Drew and Adrienne Wong
Direction: Camyar Chai
Design and Stage Management: Barbara Clayden, Andrew Hughes and John Webber
 

Written and directed by Johnathan Christenson and Joey Tremblay

A Rumble Productions/VECC presentation of a Catalyst Theatre (Edmonton) production

February 20 - 24, 2001
Vancouver East Cultural Centre

Part Greek tragedy, part black (Canuck) comedy, Vancouverites readily appreciated an allegory of the struggle to preserve cultural identity from the onslaught of our neighbours to the South.

Catalyst’s production won a prestigious Edinburgh Fringe First in 1999, and toured western Canada before returning to the U.K. in March. Written and directed by Jonathan Christensen and Joey Tremblay, The House of Pootsie Plunket is a weird and wonderful journey to the north. Pootsie and her baby brother Kirbus are trying to save their family heritage from being destroyed by their mother and her sleazy southern boyfriend. Inspired by by the story of Electra, this adult fairy tale is darkly funny, moving and magical, and has been described as a cross between Greek tragedy and Fargo.

"[a] fierce and angry play, a diatribe against the destruction of a nation." - Peter Birnie, Vancouver Sun

Cast and Production Team:
Creation and Direction: Jonathan Christensen and Joey Tremblay
Performers: Sian Williams, Julianna Barclay, Dov Mickelson and Joey Tremblay
Set/Costume/Lighting Design: Brette Gerecke
Sound Design: Jonathan Christensen

a showcase of new work by recent grads of Studio 58

Rumble Productions in collaboration with Langara College's Studio 58 presented Blueprints for Disaster, an evening of four original solo works by a new generation of Vancouver theatre-makers.

One Good Thing exposes the nightmare of a man who loves his mother to death, Saving Little Lizarb is a multi-layered movie that comes to life and recreates the dark and thrilling tale of a man and his dog. Thousand Mile Stare is a story about the friendship between a long term inmate and a young woman who begins to see the world through a convict's eyes. What Way Are You combines movement, text and lighting to illuminate and frame the regions of a women's love - lost and found.

Recipent of a 2001 Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nomination in the category of Significant Artistic Achievement for Erin Wells' conceptualization.

Cast and Production Team:

Created and Performed by: Scott Fee, Matthew Hunt, Erin Monahan, Erin Wells
Dramaturgy: Adrienne Wong
Lighting Design and Technical Direction: Shane Droucker
Production Stage Management: Nicoleigh Barnett
Producer: Andrea Donaldson
 

January, 1999
The Theatre Centre, Toronto

Artistic Associate Chris Gerrard-Pinker collaborates with performers Karen Bennedsen, Kairn Lechner and Daniel Wild and musicians Lori Freedman, Andreas Kahre and Tiina Kiik on a new work of dancetheatre.

Restless Prayers is a fugue-like series of interconnected meditations on fate, sacrifice and innocence lost. A workshop presentation in collaboration with Toronto's Theatre Centre.
 

by Guillermo Verdecchia

June 4 - 14, 1998
Performance Works, Granville Island

Written by Governor General’s Award-winning author Guillermo Verdecchia (Fronteras Americanas), The terrible but incomplete journals of John D. is a melancholy, funny, and musical look at the multifarious strains of a deception. A “regular, straight, white, fin-de-siecle kind of guy”, a woman known only as M., and a cello are the central elements of this chamber piece built around the curmudgeonly introspections of the reluctant, quasi-EveryMan, John D. The terrible but incomplete journals of John D. is an invitation to listen, reflect, judge and maybe, just maybe, forgive.

This production earned three Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards nominations (1998-1999).

Cast and Production Team:
Writer: Guillermo Verdecchia
Director: Chris Gerrard-Pinker
Performer: Norman Armour
Composition/Cello: Peggy Lee
Sound and Design: Andreas Kahre
Producer: Michel D. Bisson

Written and directed by Chris Gerrard-Pinker

March 21 - 24, 1996
Open Space New Theatre Series, 510 Fort St., Victoria

April 3 - 4, 1996
Vancouver East Cultural Centre

A potent and tormenting blur of fact and fiction, tattoos is a multimedia play about identity, chance, and memory. Drawing from a personal hope chest of postcards, photographs, letters, 8mm film, and taped messages, a women by the name of Max. Rose explores her relationship to some of the indelible human legacies that one generation bequeaths to the next.

This is the final installment of the Monstar Trilogy (including Manipulations and STRAINS) on power history and the family.

Cast and Production Team:
Writing and direction: Chris Gerrard-Pinker
Performer: Ruth McIntosh
Projection: Tim Matheson

December 6 - 9, 1995
Vancouver East Cultural Centre

TABS is an investigation into the world of the "twenty-something" generation; allegiances, dreams, and political "tudes".

TABS is about taking stock, while falling through the cracks at the speed of light.

TABS is what we owe them and what they owe us.

The time is 1995 and the place is a waiting room near a hospital where one of their "own" has inexplicably lapsed into a coma. The action is ANGRY......

Collaborators:
Kristina Agosti, Norman Armour, Camyar Chai, David Cooper, Chris Gerrard-Pinker, Melissa Ketler, Susan McKenzie, Cheri Maracle, Marnie Perrin, Ingrid Turk, John Webber and Marcus Youssef

by Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef

a Rumble Theatre and Zababwa Theatre presentation

September 9 - 17, 1995
Vancouver East Cultural Centre as part of the 1995 Vancouver Fringe Festival

Music, shadows, close-ups, loss, aerial surveillance, video cameras, testimonies, confessions and phone calls. Three lives, various photographs, one day, many memories. Three men: one in a hotel room, working out of town; the second an actor preparing for an audition; and the third a photographer who no longer photographs.

TRUE LIES bends the line between fiction and non-fiction until it breaks and then pokes you in the eye with the stubby bit that remains. TRUE LIES is rigorous, anarchic, fast, fearsome theatricality.

Cast and Production Team:
Performers: Norman Armour, Camyar Chai and Marcus Youssef
Direction: Guillermo Verdecchia
Live music: Amir Koushkani
Video projections: Gary Coward
Production stage management and technical direction: Michel Bisson, David Cooper, and John Weber

(Also performed at the Firehall Arts Centre, 1997 and High Performance Rodeo in Calgary, AB, 1998)
 

Wireless Graffiti was a transmedia project initiated by Rumble Productions in 1993 with the goal of re-envisioning the theatrical possibilities of live radio. The project parallelled a renewed international interest in radiophonic expression by bringing together artists from a variety of disciplines. Exploring the medium while playing with its conventions, form and style, Rumble's past creations include four dynamic, unique live-to-air broadcast events.

Rumble Productions, Vancouver Pro Musica and Vancouver Co-operative Radio (102.7 fm) joined forces in a rediscovery of an “old and familiar” medium: RADIO.

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June 8 - 22, 1993 at 8pm
Vancouver East Culture Centre

Over 30 performers and artists conspired together to create visual Radio with two special live broadcasts hosted by the Vancouver East Cultural Centre.

Playwright Gordon Armstrong, directors Andrew McIlroy and Diane Brown, actor Ian McDonald and comedian Gina Bastone joined photographer Daniel Collins, interdisciplinary specialist Stephen O’Connell, choreographers Jennifer Mascall and Andrew Olewine to test the limits of broadcasting.

Radio regulars Hank Bull and Patrick Ready from the Western Front’s HP Radio Show brought over ten years experience in alternative Radio. Meanwhile established Vancouver new music composers Hidegard Westercamp, Susan Frykberg, and Mark Douglas activated a new sonic language, thus adding to our experience of Radio.

THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF RADIO WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.

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The Return of Wireless Graffiti

Tuesday March 1st from 9 to 11PM
Live at the Glass Slipper (2417 Prince Edward Ave); Heard over CO-OP Radio (102.7FM)

In less than one year after the historical June broadcasts, Wireless Graffiti returned to the stage with another invigorating live radio show. Rita Bozi, the host of Wireless Graffiti, led listeners on a sonic adventure marked by laughter, tears, offbeat commentary, “on-the-edge” sound making, and an inside glimpse into the battery powered magic of the Grand ‘AA’ Ensemble. The broadcast was experienced live in person at the Glass Slipper on March 1st as part of the 7th Annual Sonic Boom Festival of Composers. Or, it was heard live over CO-OP Radio 102.7 FM from 9 to 11 PM.

As a kick off to Sonic Boom’s five night celebration of new music, Wireless Graffiti paid tribute to artists familiar and unfamiliar to followers of this long standing contemporary music extravaganza. Featured artists included Francesca Benadetti, Dead Voices on Air, Mark Douglas, Martin Gotfrit, Andreas Kahre, John Korsrud, Ian Ross McDonald, and Earle Peach.

conceived and directed by Chris Gerrard-Pinker

October 18 - 29, 1994
Station Street Arts Centre, Vancouver

strains (v), ... to press to extremes ... hold out with difficulty under pressure ... distort from true intention or meaning

Five Characters. Six Interconnecting Episodes. This production, set against the backdrop of the 20th Century, investigates social and political morality in conflict with the human heart.

STRAINS is part two and the keystone of Rumble's ambitious Mostar Trilogy focuses on the conflicting claims of mind, body and emotions and the tension between differing demands of the individual and the community. Part fable, part history and daringly theatrical.

(Also performed at Playwrights Theatre Centre, 1994 and High Performance Rodeo, Calgary, 1995)

Cast and Production Team:
Chris Gerrard-Pinker, Norman Armour, Rita Bozi, Marie Humber Clements, Patrick Keating, Shawn Macdonald, Ruth McIntosh, Shaun Phillips, Darren Copeland, Andreas Kahre, Tim Matheson, Susan McKenzie, Ingrid Turk and John Webber

by Neal Bell

September 12 - 19, 1993
Video In, 1965 Main Street as part of the 1993 Vancouver Fringe Festival

"When you don't feel tender toward naked flesh it starts to look like meat." - from Two Small Bodies

A small but intimate psycho drama based on a true story about missing children, Two Small Bodies is a funhouse of very serious games that go bump in the night. The play takes a ruthless journey from murder to domesticity, from adulthood to childhood, from missing persons to missing identities.

Cast and Production Team:
Performers: Norman Armour and Diane Brown
Direction: Chris Gerrard-Pinker
Stage Management: Ingrid Turk
Technical Direction: George Scott

based on the novella by Samuel Beckett

June 6 - 8, 1991
Arcadian Hall, Vancouver

A fully equipped, studio laboratory (with actors, designers, a choreographer and director) set the stage for a unique, collaborative exploration of Samuel Beckett's novella Company. Set, lighting, sound, text and movement theatricalized one of the most challenging works of the enigmatic Irish author of Waiting for Godot.

The COMPANY Project brought together a group of well-established artists from various disciplines in an attempt to find a more collaborative way of working towards theatrical presentation. All production elements were fully integrated from the outset, with designers, actors, and production personnel working together to uncover images in the text. The audience was invited to be a part of this alternative showing which broke with the traditional boundaries between designer, performer, and audience.

Cast and Production Team:
Direction: Chris Gerrard-Pinker
Collaborators/Presenters: Norman Armour, Louise Bentall, Borja Brown, Grant Gregson, David Hay, Rebekah Johnson, David Joyce, Andreas Kahre, Megan Leitch, Jud Martell, Peter Ryan, Tom Stroud and Phillip Tidd