“I’ve never seen anything like it. And I loved every minute of it.” – Vancouver Courier

Haruki Murakami is the West’s favorite Japanese novelist. His work has been translated into forty different languages, so perhaps it is unsurprising that he has spent much of his adult life away from his homeland. In 1995 two disasters struck Japan: the lethal earthquake in Kobe and the deadly poison gas attacks on the Tokyo subway. Spurred by these tragic events, Murakami abandoned his life abroad and returned home to confront his country’s grief. after the quake is a collection of short stories set in the months that fell between the earthquake and the subway attack presenting a world marked by despair, hope, and a kind of human instinct for transformation.

Renowned American Writer/Director Frank Galati’s adaptation of After the Quake takes its audience on a journey where magic and realism collide, in an exploration of disrupted realities. Junpei, a gentle, caring writer, loses the love of his life, Sayoko, when his aggressive best friend, Takatsuki, marries her. They have a child, Sala. He remains close friends with them and becomes even closer after they divorce, but still cannot bring himself to declare his love for Sayoko. Sala is traumatized by the quake and Junpei concocts a wonderful allegorical tale to ease her hurt. To give himself courage he crafts a tale of a bank loan officer’s struggle to distinguish between what is real and what is not, when six foot tall 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.

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“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

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.

Winner of the Innovation Award (sponsored by the Vancouver Sun) at the 26th annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards.

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Continuing with our tradition of mentoring emerging theatre companies, Rumble collaborated 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.

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“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

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.

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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 travelers.

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