Marketing & Production Coordinator
Studio 58 Summer Career Placement, Naomi Sider

Administrative Internships
Jen Morris

Guest Artists
Theatre Replacement, Broken Spoke Theatre & SaBooge Theatre

Artists in Residence
The Chop

Producers in Residence
The Here Be Monsters Collective

Playwrights in Residence
Hiro Kanagawa & James Long

Pilots
Tom Pinkerton by Hiro Kanagawa & Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut by James Long

Marketing & Production Coordinator
Studio 58 Summer Career Placement, James Nesbitt

Administrative Internship
Capilano College Student Placement, Maria Jelavich

Guest Artist
Section 8 Productions

Artist in Residence
Kris Nelson

Playwright In Residence
Hiro Kanagawa

Pilots
Jillian Fargey, Hiro Kanagawa, Greg MacArthur

Marketing & Production Coordinator
Studio 58 Summer Career Placement, Kris Nelson

Administrative Internships
Capilano College Student Placements, Vic Ustare and Kirsty Munro

Guest Artist
Theatre Replacement

Artist in Residence
Richard Wolfe (Western Theatre Conspiracy, Artistic Director)

Pilots
Alex Ferguson, Manami Hara, Adrienne Wong

Marketing & Production Coordinator
SFU Summer Career Placement, Holly Sandulo

Administrative Internship
Capilano College Student Placement, Steve Duncan

Guest Artist
Theatre SKAM (Amiel Gladstone, Artistic Director)

Playwright in Residence
Aaron Bushkowsky

Pilots
Aaron Bushkowsky, Lynn Coady, Patti Fraser, Marcus Youssef

Marketing & Production Coordinator
SFU Summer Career Placement, Holly Sandulo

Guest Artists
Screaming Weenie (Ilena Lee Cramer, Artistic Director) and Section 8 (Craig Hall & Kevin MacDonald, Artistic Directors)

Playwright in Residence
Aaron Bushkowsky

Pilots
Frank Borg, Tim Carlson, Amiel Gladstone, Joy Russell and Maiko Bae Yamamoto

Administrative Internship
Michelle Olson

Production Internship
Brandy Corlet

Administrative Internship
Capilano College Student Placement, Tara Goerzen

Production Coordinator
Summer Career Placement, Tanya Marquardt

Guest Artists
Tandem Productions (Shane Droucker and Erin Wells, Artistic Directors)

Playwright in Residence
Marie Clements

Production Coordinator
Summer Career Placement, Andrea Donaldson

Administrative Internship
Capilano College Student Placement, Ilena Lee Cramer

Guest Artist
Maiko Bae Yamamoto

Production Coordinator
Summer Career Placement, Jannelle Bakker

Guest Artist
Adrienne Wong

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

September 1 - 2, 2007

Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill Junior (1928)

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.

Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)

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.

Celebrate the End of Summer in Style

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

September 1 - 3, 2006

Grandview Park, Commercial Drive at William Street, Vancouver

A Labour Day weekend, free-of-charge homage to the best in silent (and not so silent) cinema.  Park your blanket under the stars and enjoy great cinema, all to the thrilling accompaniment of original live music by Eye of Newt and special guests.

The Gold Rush

(1925) Friday, September 1, 2006

The film Charlie Chaplin most wanted to be remembered by - The Gold Rush is the quintessential Chaplin film, with a balance of slapstick comedy and pantomime, social satire, and moments of tenderness. A Lone Prospector, a valiant weakling, seeks fame and fortune in the mad rush for hidden gold in the Alaskan wilderness.

Featuring live accompaniment by Stefan Smulovitz (viola/laptop), Viviane Houl (voice), Pepe Danza (winds/percussion), and Peggy Lee (cello).

Three Monks

(1980) Saturday, September 2, 2006

Winner of a Golden Rooster and a Silver Bear, A Da's animated Three Monks is an adaptation of a Chinese folk proverb:

"One monk will shoulder two buckets of water, two monks will share the load, but add a third and no one will want to fetch the water."

Featuring live accompaniment by Stefan Smulovitz (viola/laptop), Viviane Houle (voice), Pepe Danza (winds/percussion), Peggy Lee (cello), with narration by Andrew Laurensen.

Metropolis

(1927) Sunday, September 3, 2006

Possibly the crowning achievement of silent cinema, Fritz Lang's blockbuster fuses the frenetic storytelling of twenties pulp fiction with Lang's personal fascination with the dark side of human nature. A vast towering city's exploited subterranean workforce threatens to overthrow the technocratic elite who callously rule them from above - even if it means destroying the city itself. Lang's dystopian vision of the future pits science against religion, love against death and revenge against redemption.

Featuring live accompaniment by Chris Kelly (sax/laptop), Randall Schmid (guitar), Pete Schmitt (bass), Skye Brooks (drums)

This event was supported by Black Dog Video, The Wise Hall, Artrageous, and Now Orchestra.

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

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.

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).

Visit www.buzzbuzzbuzz.ca for more information.

by Greg MacArthur

November 23 - December 9, 2006

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

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

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.

"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

Nominated for 6 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

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

TREMORS Main Stage Presentations:

The Headless Cowboy

Calgary's Broken Spoke Theatre
Performance Works, Granville Island
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

Directed by Eileen Sproule (generic theatre) and performed by Brad Payne, Kristine Nutting, Kyrsten Blair, Andrew Payne and Ian Manhire.

Fathom

Yu-Fo

Vancouver's Theatre Replacement
Performance Works, Granville Island
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." The Vancouver Sun

An exploration on themes of alienation and how far we humans can crawl into our own shells, Yu-Fo is directed by Amiel Gladstone (Theatre SKAM), written and performed by Yamamoto and James Long. The production will reunite the company with acclaimed local musician Veda Hille (Field Study, Return of the Kildeer), who has recently signed on as the company's in-house musician, and lighting designer Itai Erdal (The Empty Orchestra & Broiler).

TREMORS was produced in association with the Here Be Monsters Collective.

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

ALSO SHAKING AT TREMORS:

Salon Des Refusés Gallery

Performance Works, Granville Island
March 14-31
FREE with admission to any main stage presentation!

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)

Capri Hall
3925 Fraser St
March 19-27 

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)

Playhouse Production Centre
160 West 1st Ave
Hosted by SaBooge Theatre from Montreal
March 24, 10am-4pm

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, March17th
Screaming Flea
Friday, March 23rd and Saturday, March24th
Theatre Melee
Friday, March 30th and Saturday, March 31st
The Chop

Performances begin at 7:00pm and 9:30pm.  
Free!

St. Patty’s Day Psychobilly Hoedown!

Celebrate the end of summer with three evenings of film and live music, featuring Eye of Newt and invited guests. A Labour Day classic. Free of Charge.

Grandview Park, Commercial Dr. at William St.,
Vancouver, BC

Screenings begin at 8:15pm - FREE!

September 2, 2005

• EYE OF NEWT
  with Pepe Danza, Viviane Houle, Peggy Lee, Stefan Smulovitz
• THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES (1987) (L'homme qui plantait des arbres)
  Winner of the Academy Award for "Best Short Film, Animated", this gem is a true homage to nature as it tells the story of one man who turns a desert into a forest.
• A SOLDIER'S TALE (1918) (L'Histoire du Soldat)
  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! Narrated by Andrew Laurenson.

Saturday, September 3, 2005

• ADIOS
  with Skye Brooks, Chris Kelly, Randall Schmid, Pete Schmitt
• KOYAANISQATSI: LIFE OUT OF BALANCE (1983)
  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 cinamatographer Ron Frike (Baraka) to create a defining cinematic tale of life inside modern technology, our "beautiful beast."

Sunday, September 4, 2005

• SSN MONSTER ORCHESTRA
  with guest conductors Coat Cooke, Giorgio Magnanensi, Stefan Smulovitz
• BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1925) (Bronenosets Potyomkin)
  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.

by David Greig

October 6 - 23, 2005
co-produced with Studio 58 @ Studio 58, Langara College

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

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

"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

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.

by Aaron Bushkowsky

Director: Norman Armour

Dramaturg: Rachel Ditor

Cast: Lois Anderson, Scott Bellis, Kathleen Duborg, James Long, Stephen E. Miller

Design Team: Barbara Clayden, Andreas Kahre, Tim Matheson, Stefan Smulovitz, John WebberPhoto by Tim Matheson Featuring Stephen E.Miller and James Long

Bob is a downtown developer with a lot on his mind. Darren is the lawyer Bob so desperately needs. Gerald has a personal interest in photography; he works for Bob, or so Bob thinks. Rachael works at a gallery and no longer finds Darren so amusing. And Claire? Well, she's a whole other story.

Rumble returns to the Frederic Wood Theatre after the 2004 co-production of K. Now with Soulless, join a cast of Vancouver's finest actors of the stage and screen - including noted Theatre at UBC Alumni - in a critically acclaimed work by one of the city's most treasured playwrights.

Nominated for six Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards including the Sydney Risk Prize for Outstanding Original Script, Soulless is a moving and often humourous tale of redemption at the crossroads of money, longing and contested ground.

"This show is so thrilling intellectually and aesthetically that I defy you not to be swept away by it." - Colin Thomas, Georgia Straight

"Bushkowsky's finest, most moving work." - Jo Ledingham, Vancouver Courier

a special presentation with Theatre at UBC
NOVEMBER 24 - DECEMBER 3 7:30 PM
Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC campus
Ticket prices $22/$18/$12
Theatre at UBC
Box Office 604.822.2678

International Performing Arts Festival

Launched in January 2003 in partnership with Touchstone Theatre, PuSh is Vancouvers very own annual, mid-winter, multidisciplinary festival showcasing critically acclaimed artists and their work. Take in groundbreaking theatre, dance and music from Corner Brook, Montreal, Calgary, London, Paris and Vancouver.

Highlights include the world premieres of Studies in Motion: the Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge, co-produced with the Electric Company Theatre and Theatre at UBC, along with a Chan Centre co-presentation of a new collaboration between the Kronos Quartet and Canadian throat singer Tanya Tagaq.

"The PuSh Festival is always out to push the envelope" Peter Birnie, Vancouver Sun

"Those attending PuSh performances can expect to have their senses challenged, comfort levels tested and preconceived notions of theatre artfully bashed around the room like a pinata." Jo Ledingham, Vancouver Courier

Photo by Edweard Muybridge, courtesy of Dover Publications

JANUARY 10 - FEBRUARY 4, 2006
Multiple venues
Festival Passes $64

Terrible Things

a Section 8 Productions collective creation
produced in association with Studio 58
APRIL 27 - MAY 6, 2006
Performance Works, Granville Island

Director: Craig Hall
Assistant Director: Tasha Faye Evans
Stage Manager: Naomi Sider
Dramaturg: Adrienne Wong
Assistant to the Director/Dramaturg: Leah Syskakis
Lighting: Itai Erdal
Cast: Rebecca Ananda, Evangela Dueck, Gemma Isaac, Daryl King, Cat Main, Donna Soares, Stacie Steadman, Lee Vincent
Marketing Photo: Carrie Richardson featuring the cast of Terrible Things
Production Photos: Itai Erdal

"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

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 Historys most notorious characters and the works of author and illustrator Edward Gorey.

"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

Pilots is Rumble's program for new writing. Associate Dramaturg Rachel Ditor works with this year's playwrights Alex Ferguson, Manami Hari and Adrienne Wong. Stay tuned for info on public readings this fall.

Our 15th Anniversary Season marks the beginning of an exciting new Commissioning Circle. We invite you to donate and support the creation of new plays by Jillian Fargey, Hiro Kanagawa and Greg MacArthur. Contact us for more details on how to become a Commissioning Circle Member.Residencies and Internships are integral to each and every Rumble season. This year Kris Nelson and Section 8 Productions come on board, while Playwright in Residence, Hiro Kanagawa, works on a new play entitled Trouble and Joy.

transmissions is our annual publication on "theatre, art and ideas." Look for the next issue due out in November, as it explores the "art" in artistic directorship with guest editor Craig Hall and contributing writers.Rumble Productions presented The Young & The Restless with the world premiere of Theatre Replacement's Broiler was a one-person show about a little chicken. A demonstration of how an individual sidesteps the truth in every situation. In fact, the only thing that seems honest about this fellow was the broiler chicken he was preparing for the audience to eat. There is a reality underlying the facade, however - a very difficult one. As bits of it emerge things become more intimate, perhaps even uncomfortable. Kind of like the truth.

(Performance Works, Granville Island, April 21 - 30, 2005).

Broiler

Rumble Productions presented The Young & The Restless with the world premiere of Theatre Replacements Broiler.

Broiler was a one-person show about a little chicken. A demonstration of how an individual sidesteps the truth in every situation. In fact, the only thing that seems honest about this fellow was the broiler chicken he was preparing for the audience to eat. There is a reality underlying the facade, however a very difficult one. As bits of it emerge things become more intimate, perhaps even uncomfortable. Kind of like the truth.

(Performance Works, Granville Island, April 2130, 2005)

Rumble and Touchstone Theatre presented the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, the third annual airlift of brave new works from Canada and beyond.

(Various Venues, January 11 February 12/2005)

By Colleen Wagner

A West coast premiere presentation of

Rumble Productions and felix culpa. The next thing you know Im being tried for war crimes. Makes me laugh. If war is a crime, why do we keep having them?

The Monument

An unnamed country. A young soldier convicted of war crimes. A middle-aged woman who is both his saviour and tormentor.

Colleen Wagners Governor Generals Award winning play is a brutal and timely testament to the passions of ordinary people in not so ordinary circumstances. In unflinching detail, The Monument dissects the roles of victim and perpetrator, leaving us with the question of how, and at what price, do we honour those who suffer civil and ethnic strife.

Directed by David Bloom, starring Stuart Pierre and Linda Quibell, designed by Barbara Clayden, Noah Drew, Andreas Kahre, Del Surjik

(Performance Works, November 11 - 27, 2004)

Press Release

November 11 - 27 8pm $24/$20 at Performance Works on Granville Island

An unnamed country. A young soldier convicted of war crimes. A middle-aged woman who is both his saviour and tormentor. Colleen Wagner's Governor General's Award winning play is a brutal and timely testament to the passions of ordinary people in not so ordinary circumstances. In unflinching detail, The Monument dissects the roles of victim and perpetrator, leaving us with the question of how, and at what price, do we honour the victims of civil and ethnic strife.

The Monument is directed by David Bloom and stars Stuart Pierre and Linda Quibell. Designed by Barbara Clayden, Noah Drew, Andreas Kahre and Del Surjik. Stage Management by Joanne P.B. Smith with technical direction by Craig Hall. The production team of The Monument is joined by Studio 58 production intern Joel Etkin (assistant stage manager). A See Seven show.

Felix Culpa and Rumble Productions gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver - Office of Cultural Affairs, BC Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation - Granville Island, Studio 58, Georgia Straight, RBC Foundation, and our individual donors, members and volunteers.

by Aaron Bushkowsky

Bob is a downtown developer with a lot on his mind. Darren is the lawyer Bob so desperately needs. Gerald has a personal interest in photography; he works for Bob, or so Bob thinks. Rachael works at a gallery and no longer finds Darren so amusing - but Bob, well that's another matter entirely. Claire? Well, being homeless can make you somewhat of an irritant. Set in present-day Vancouver, Soulless is a tale of redemption at the crossroads of money, longing and contested ground.

Soulless is directed by Norman Armour, with dramaturgy by Rachel Ditor, and features Lois Anderson, Kathleen Duborg, James Long, Stephen E. Miller and Ian Tracey. Design by Barbara Clayden, Andreas Kahre, Tim Matheson, Stefan Smulovitz and John Webber. Stage management by Joanne P. B. Smith. The production team of Soulless is joined by Studio 58 students Kris Nelson (assistant director) and Raelynne Gagnon (assistant stage manager).

(Performance Works April 7-24, 2004)

The Wedding Pool

Rumble's legendary showcase for new and emerging artists returns with Victoria's Theatre SKAM and The Wedding Pool: a dangerous comedy concerning the lives of four people and their struggles with death, taxes - and yes, the probability of marriage. Written and directed by SKAM's Artistic Director, Amiel Gladstone and starring Lara Gilchrist, Lucas Myers, Matthew Payne and Camille Stubel.

(Performance Works, March 18-27, 2004)

January 14 - 31, 2004

Rumble teamed up with Touchstone Theatre for the second annual airlift of brave new works from Canada and Denmark. PuSh included four major works:

K.

From Kaleidoskop (Copenhagen), a look at the end of Franz Kafka's life. Recipient of Denmark's prize for best new drama, this new English translation starred Patrick Keating, James Long, Norman Armour, Karin Konoval and was written and directed by Martin Tulinius.

A Suicide Site-Guide to the City

A premier performance by by Mammalian Diving Reflex (Toronto),one of Canada's most beguiling creators (White Mice, pppeeeaaaccceee, Who Shot Jacques Lacan?). Written and performed by Darren O'Donnell, directed by Rebecca Picherack; produced by Naomi Campbell.

The Birds, Burnt Norton and Fuse

by Deborah Dunn (Montreal)

The Dance Centre and PuSh join forces for the presentation the much-anticipated West Coast premiere of choreographer Dunn's Hitchcock-inspired work, The Birds. Rounding out the program were Burnt Norton, an exploration of the first of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, and the four-minute gem, Fuse.

Sign Language: A Physical Conversation

by Denise Clarke (Calgary)

Imagine creating a work from the accumulated effect of 50 improvisations witnessed by a single observer. Imagine it being inspired by Radiohead's "Fitter, Happier" litany on the OK Computer album. Imagine it being danced in the nude, and later a salon style conversation with the audience.

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

(Shifting Point Theatre)

Another girl is missing, another parent's nightmare: then she is an unsettling skip across fantasy and reality to the outer regions of justice and personal civility.

Snowman

by Greg MacArthur

(Section 8 Theatre)

A spit of a town on the edge of a glacial sheet. Snowsuits, German porn and cocaine. Simple people simply scraping by. One dead body and your whole life can change.

(Performance Works April 15 - 26, 2003)

Critically acclaimed Canadian and international artists touch down in Vancouver for performances and workshops. An exciting new joint initiative with Touchstone Theatre. PuSh is part of a Canadian network of presenters. The PuSh series is presented in partnership with High Performance Rodeo (Calgary), Six Stages Festival (Toronto), and Usine C (Montreal).

Infrarouge Theatre (Montreal),

Created and performed by Marie Brassard, 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. (Studio 16, January 14-19, 2003)

William Yang (Australia),

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. (Roundhouse Community Centre, January 28 to February 1, 2003)

One Yellow Rabbit (Calgary)

by Blake Brooker and David Rhymer. At the centre of the 1950s Beat circle, Burroughs and 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 OYR's trademark physicality, Dream Machine is a radical departure from both the traditional theatre musical and the conventional bio pic. (VECC, March 26 April 5, 2003)

by Henrik Ibsen adapted by John Osborne

Co-presented with the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Rumble took a turn with Henrik Ibsen's startling view into one woman's personal and marital entrapments. Featuring Vancouver luminaries Camyar Chai, Bernard Cuffling, Patricia Drake, David Marr, Wendy Noel and Donna White. A new interpretation by director Norman Armour and dramaturg Rachel Ditor, from an adaptation by John Osborne (Look Back in Anger).

(VECC, November 30 - December 7, 2002)

A Labour Day weekend free-of-charge homage to the best in silent (and not so silent) cinema. Presented in Commercial Drive's Grandview Park the films included Charles Chaplin's City Lights (1931), George Mlis' Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon, 1902), Werner Herzog's Lektionen in Finsternis (Lessons in Darkness, 1992), and Ishioro Honda's legendary Mosura tai Gojira (Godzilla vs. Mothra, 1964).

Charmingly co-presented with The Celluloid Drugstore, Radix Theatre and the Eye of Newt Collective (who accompany the films with live music nightly).

(Grandview Park, August 30 - September 1, 2002)

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 is directed by Peter Hinton (120 Songs for the Marquis De Sade)

Presented by Rumble Productions and the Firehall Arts Centre

(Firehall Arts Centre, April 23 - May 11, 2002)

White Mice was nominated for six Dora Mavor Moore awards, including Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Production and Outstanding Design. A black comedy about the white race, White Mice tells the tale of two white-furred mice, Robert and Douglas, as they come to terms with their own whiteness. Written and directed by Darren ODonnell, it features the author and Bruce Hunter as Robert and Douglas.

Presented by Rumble Productions, Mammalian Diving Reflex and the VECC

(Vancouver East Cultural Centre, February 5-9, 2002)

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. Created and performed by Noah Drew and Adrienne Wong (Other Women).

Directed by Camyar Chai (NeWorld Theatre).

Samuel Beckett's Footfalls is a glimpse into a ghostly, spiritual halfway house illuminated briefly by the interplay of time, shadow & light. Featuring Elizabeth Dancoes and Erin Wells.

Directed by Chris Gerrard-Pinker.

Presented by Rumble Productions, Tangled Tongues Performance, Tandem Productions and the Firehall Arts Centre

(Firehall Arts Centre, September 5-16, 2001)

Rumble and the Vancouver East Cultural Centre co-presented Edmonton's Catalyst Theatre with The House Of Pootsie Plunkett, described by Vancouver Sun reviewer Peter Birnie as a "fierce and angry play, a diatribe against the destruction of a nation." 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.

Presented by Rumble Productions, Catalyst Theatre and the VECC

(Vancouver East Cultural Centre, February 2001)

HOTEL received a special screening and press conference February 2001 at Vancouver's Holiday Inn downtown. An anthology of six short films about one fine July day in a Vancouver hotel, the project was conceived by Rumble's Artistic Assoicate Chris Gerrard-Pinker as a serialized look at the theme of transience. The six stories take place in the present, and explore the peculiar dilemmas of people caught between one place and another - between closure and some undisclosed life crisis. Funding for HOTEL, was generously provided by Bravo!FACT (Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent) and the British Columbia 2000, Arts and Heritage Fund.

(Various Film Festivals and Bravo TV, 2001/2002)

a play by Jason Sherman

As a Star Wars missile defense system returns to front-page news, one is reminded of the life - and death - of Canadian ballistics innovator Gerald Bull, inventor of the "supergun". It's the enigma of this renegade genius that provides the inspiration for one of the most gripping plays of the last decade - Jason Sherman's Governor General's Award winner, Three in the Back, Two in the Head.

Presented by Rumble Productions and Pi Theatre

(Roundhouse Theatre, November 2000)

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.

(Vancouver Fringe, September 2000)

(a day in the life of Mordechai Vanunu)

For thirteen years Mordechai Vanunu has been in solitary confinement for blowing the whistle on his country's secret nuclear weapons program. A technician at Israel's Dimona Nuclear Facility, Vanunu supplied the London Sunday Times with photographs of its operations. The Israeli government, with the help of a female Mossad agent posing as an American tourist, lured Vanunu to Rome, kidnapped him and illegally took him back to Israel. There he was tried as a traitor, and sentenced to eighteen years in prison. This one man show depicts Vanunu's isolation and anguish, and his struggle between hope and pessimism, for himself, and for humankind. Co-produced with NeWorld Theatre. Read the bio's

(Performance Works, April 2000)

Under Wraps, an original work by Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, is, on the surface, a story of unrequited love between a gay man and his straight best friend. That's on the surface. But what about the sixteen-person chorus under a huge sheet of parachute cloth? This shape-shifting chorus functions as set, musical accompaniment, and as the hero's conscience, repeatedly mocking his motivations in this funny, vibrant, and visually stunning show.

(Vancouver East Cultural Centre, January 2000)

Press Release

For Immediate Release: January 10, 1999

A magical theatrical experience Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland's Under Wraps: A Spoke Opera

Vancouver audiences will have their first opportunity to experience a stunning new theatrical style that has taken east-coast audiences by storm when Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland's Under Wraps: A Spoke Opera comes to the Vancouver East Cultural Centre.

Under Wraps is, on the surface, a story of unrequited love between a gay man and his straight best friend. That's on the surface. But what about the sixteen-person chorus under a huge parachute cloth? This shape-shifting chorus functions as a set, musical accompaniment, and as the hero's conscience, repeatedly mocking his motivations in this funny, vibrant, and visually stunning show.

Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland's Artistic Director, Jillian Keily, has created a startingly original staging style called kaleidography, which transforms the entire cast and stage into a unified image of patterns and shapes, constantly flowing into new images as smoothly as if one were looking through a kaleidoscope. The basis of this concept is a precisely timed grid style of choreography that has a central rhythmic structure on which all sight and sound are based. The resulting symphony of colour, movement and sound can only be described as theatre at its most spectacular.

Under Wraps is a collaboration between playwright-performer Robert Chafe, composer/musical director Patricia Bromley, and director Jillian Keily, who in 1997 was awarded the Canada Council's prestigious John Hirsch Prize for innovation in theatre directing.

Under Wraps is co-presented by the Vancouver East Cultural Centre and Rumble Productions, and runs at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre Tuesday, January 25 to Saturday, January 29. Following the performance on Wednesday, January 26, director Jillian Keily and the cast will invite audience members behind the scenes for a closer look at their techniques.

Under Wraps:
A Spoke Opera
January 25-29, 2000 $24/$18
Vancouver East Cultural Centre
1895 Venables Street (at Victoria)
Co-presented by the Vancouver East Cultural Centre and Rumble Productions

by Alex Ferguson and Peter Hannan
In collaboration with Langara College's Studio 58

Written by Vancouver playwright Alex Ferguson, War of the Worlds featured a cast of six, accompanied by the new music ensemble Standing Wave, vocalist Jennifer Scott and composer Peter Hannan on the theremin.

In the play the pervasive promise of technological innovation, mass media's conflation of history and myth, and the nature of time are explored through the events surrounding the legendary 1938 CBS broadcast. These themes are theatricalised through a variety of stylistic innovations that include deconstructed realism, action poetry, songs, theremin solos, extended instrumental sections for the whole ensemble and the narrative device of a journalist character. Show bios.

(The Roundhouse Community Centre, Nov/Dec 1999)

by Alex Ferguson and Peter Hannan
In collaboration with Langara College's Studio 58

Having cheated on her white husband with an Asian man, a half-Chinese woman flees to the vacant home of her grandparents Wong. Thirty years earlier, in the same house, an immigrant couple's life is disrupted when the man's first wife unexpectedly arrives from China... and moves in. The play delved into the stories of three generations of Chinese Canadians, emerging Vancouver playwright Adrienne Wong examined the pain and wonder of straddling two cultures. Betrayal, love, and confounded identity in a moving and magical piece of storytelling.

Other Women was Rumble's 1999/2000 season opener, offering rich poetry, family anecdotes, historical research and sensuous physicality woven together in an intricate web of memories and fantasies, half-truths and possibilities.

(Vancouver Fringe, September 1999)

Director, innovator, collaborative creator, writer, Artistic Director of Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, Artistic Associate of the Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre Company and 1998 winner of the Canada Council's John Hirsch Prize for emerging directors... the list goes on. Jillian Keiley came to Vancouver from the east coast for a week-long workshop on her creative process:

(Russian Hall, March 1999)

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.
Bios

(Theatre Centre,Toronto, January 1999)

Rumble Productions and the Dance Centre hosted a one-day celebration and exploration of performing artists who have ventured from the stage into the use of other media such as compact discs, film, television and book publishing and the internet. Artists and industry representatives joined in a forum for idea sharing and the showcasing of innovative new works.

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(Vancouver East Cultural Centre, October 1998)

The Terrible But Incomplete Journals of John D. is the first installment of Wireless Graffiti's dynamic theatreradio events. Written by Governor General's Award-winning author Guillermo Verdecchia (Fronteras Americanas), John D. explores the fragile nature of love through intimate dispatches spanning a year in the life of a freelance journalist. John D. is a bitterly comic reflection of contemporary life as we approach the end of the 20th century. You can purchase an audio CD of the John D performance.

(Performance Works on Granville Island. June, 1998)

TRUE LIES: 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.

(Vancouver Fringe Festival, 1995, Firehall Arts Centre, 1997, High Performance Rodeo, 1998)

tattoos is an inquiry into the indelible legacies that one generation bequeaths to the next. tattoos takes specific aim at conflicts of the heart and the family through a quasi-documentary style, using postcards, photographs, letters, archival film footage, newspaper clippings, taped messages and conversations. tattoos is part 3 of the Mostar Trilogy.

(Vancouver East Cultural Centre and Open Space Gallery, 1996)

tattoos is an inquiry into the indelible legacies that one generation bequeaths to the next. tattoos takes specific aim at conflicts of the heart and the family through a quasi-documentary style, using postcards, photographs, letters, archival film footage, newspaper clippings, taped messages and conversations. tattoos is part 3 of the Mostar Trilogy.

(Vancouver East Cultural Centre and Open Space Gallery, 1996)

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.

(Playwrights Theatre Centre, Station Street Arts Centre, 1994 and High Performance Rodeo, Calgary, 1995)

A Concise History of Drumming is a playful and melancholy journey through a percussionist's mind. A sublime creation from Rumble Associate Artist Andreas Kahre, Drumming is a combination of storytelling, cultural commentary and invented history that spans 500,000 years.

(The Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 1993)

"The name's Brann, Mrs. Maloney... mind if I ask a few questions." Like a film noir hall of mirrors, Two Small Bodies is a funhouse of very serious games that go bump in the night - a ruthless journey from murder to domesticity, from adulthood to childhood, from missing persons to missing identities.

(Vancouver Fringe Festival, 1994)

Wireless Graffiti is a transmedia project initiated by Rumble Productions in 1993 with the goal of re-envisioning the theatrical possibilities of live radio. The project parallels 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. Read more.

(Vancouver East Cultural Centre/Co-op Radio, 1993, 1994, 1995)

Manipulations, part of the Mostar Trilogy, examines the notion of how we construct our identities. Manipulations uses a dash of quantum physics, habitual behaviour, comedy, drama and the strategies of love and hate, to expose the effects of power on the human condition.

(Vancouver Fringe Festival and Firehall Arts Centre, 1992)

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.

(Arcadian Hall, 1991)