CALL FOR SUBMISSION Symbiotic: Untrue Stories Live
Submissions due August 4th, 2023
Rumble is accepting submissions for its first Cabaret of the 2023-24 season.
Past Shows & Events
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The Company Project
June 6 – 8, 1991
A unique, collaborative exploration of Samuel Beckett’s novella Company.
Manipulations
September 10 – 19, September 23 – 27, 1992
The laboratory is life – habitual behavior and the use/abuse of power are the subjects.
The Concise History of Drumming
November 17 – 20, 1993
A Concise History of Drumming is a playful and melancholy journey through a percussionist’s mind.
Two Small Bodies
September 12 – 19, 1993
A small but intimate psycho drama based on a true story about missing children
Wireless Graffiti
June 8 – 22, 1993 at 8pm
Over 30 performers and artists conspired together to create visual Radio with two special live broadcasts hosted by the Vancouver East Cultural Centre.
Strains
October 18 – 29, 1994
Set against the backdrop of the 20th Century, Strains investigates social and political morality in conflict with the human heart.
TABS
December 6 – 9, 1995
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……
True Lies
September 9 – 17, 1995
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.
Tattoos
March 21 – 24, 1996, April 3 – 4, 1996
Max Rose explores her relationship to some of the indelible human legacies that one generation bequeaths to the next.
Terrible but Incomplete Journals of John D.
June 4 – 14, 1998
The terrible but incomplete journals of John D. is an invitation to listen, reflect, judge and maybe, just maybe, forgive.
Transmedia Forum
October 14, 1998
a one-day celebration and exploration of performing artists who have ventured from the stage into the use of other media.
Kaleidography Workshop
March 1 – 5, 1999
Newfoundland theatre artist Jillian Keiley conducted a five-day workshop on her creative process, kaleidography.
Other Women
September 10 – 18, 1999
Having cheated on her white husband with an Asian man, a half-Chinese woman flees to the vacant home of her grandparents Wong.
Restless Prayers
January, 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.
War of the Worlds
November 26 to December 5
a multi-media spectacle which explores the circumstantial meeting of three characters
Blueprints for Disaster
a showcase of new work by recent grads of Studio 58
I Am Your Spy (a day in the life of Mordechai Vanunu)
April 2000
This one man show depicts Vanunu’s isolation and anguish, and his struggle between hope and pessimism, for himself, and for humankind.
Three in the Back, Two in the Head
November 2 – 18, 2000
The life – and death – of Canadian ballistics innovator Gerald Bull, inventor of the “supergun”.
Under Wraps: A Spoke Opera
January 25 – 29, 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 … Read more Under Wraps: A Spoke Opera