“Unabashedly, hilariously gross.” – 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.

Cozy Catastrophe had its beginnings at Hive 2 and had undergone several incarnations: a workshop/performance at Caravan Farm Theatre, a run at Summerworks in Toronto and then finally a run in our 2010 TREMORS Festival.

Theatre Melee is a Vancouver based theatre company that creates darkly absurd comedy. Its members are Courtenay Dobbie, Erin Mathews, Juno Ruddell, Andrew McNee, Michael Rinaldi, and Craig Hall.

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

Wed Jan 18

• Breakfast with Jorge Vargas, 9:30AM

• Workshop with Peter Reder, 4 – 8PM

Thu Jan 19

• The Actor’s Director, 11AM – 5PM

Mon Jan 23

• Breakfast with Ross Manson, 9:30AM

Tue Jan 24

• The Designer’s Director, 11AM – 1PM

Wed Jan 25

• Day Workshop with Phil Soltanoff, 10AM – 2PM

Thu Jan 26 – 28

• Three-Day Intensive Workshop with Phil Soltanoff, 10AM – 5PM

Sat Jan 28

• Case Study of The Idiot and Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech, 11AM – 1PM

Thu Feb 2

• Breakfast with Michael Greyeyes, 9AM

Sat Feb 4

• A Conversation with Claude Poissant, 3:30PM – 5:30PM

PROGRAMMING DETAILS:

Attacks Lab Breakfasts

January 18, January 23, + February 2, 2012
Quality Hotel – Inn at False Creek
1335 Howe Street, Hotel Bar, Vancouver, B.C.

Lively and fast-paced introductions to the work and practices of three directors with shows that were featured at the 2012 PuSh Festival. Each of these directors’ work tackles social politics with an aim towards awareness and change. Light breakfast was provided.

Jan 18 at 9:30AM – Jorge Vargas, director of Teatro Linea de Sombra’s Amarillo. Moderated by Kendra Fanconi. Click here to RSVP

Jan 23 at 9:30AM – Ross Manson of Volcano Theatre (Toronto). Moderated by Stephen Drover and Rachel Peake. Click here to RSVP

Feb 2 at 9:00AM – Michael Greyeyes, director of Almighty Voice and His Wife and PuSh Assembly keynote speaker. Moderated by Mindy Parfitt and Diane

Workshop with Peter Reder

January 18, 2012, 4 – 8PM
Renegade Productions
125 East 2nd Avenue, Vancouver, BC

Guided Tour (2012) and City of Dreams (2011) director Peter Reder (London, England) focused on situational theatre and creating performance that examines and showcases quickly changing environments.

Admission was $25 and by application only. Resumes and 250-word letters of intent were submitted to Associate Curator Dani Fecko at dfecko@rumble.org

The Actor’s Director – Roundtable Conversation

January 19, 2012, 11AM – 5PM
Carousel Theatre Studio
1411 Cartwright Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC

Led by award-winning director Jennifer Tarver (The Theatre Centre, Toronto), Vancouver’s industry veterans discussed the intricacies of the actor/director dynamic, followed by a hands-on workshop.

Admission was free but required an application. Current resumes and 250-word letters of intent were submitted to Associate Curator Dani Fecko at dfecko@rumble.org

The Designer’s Director – Roundtable Conversation

January 24, 2012, 11AM – 1PM
Carousel Theatre Studio
1411 Cartwright Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC

Some of the country’s most progressive designers and local directors gathered to talk about the director/designer relationship. Moderated by Rumble Artistic Producer Craig Hall.

Workshops with Phil Soltanoff
Presented with Theatre Replacement

One-day Workshop: January 25, 2012, 10AM – 2PM
Three-day Intensive Workshop: January 26-28, 2012, 10AM – 5PM
Renegade Productions
125 East 2nd Avenue, Vancouver, BC

Designed for actors, directors, writers, designers and anyone else interested in making live performance. Award-winning director and hybrid artist Phil Soltanoff explored how we think about and work with elements of space and time in live performance.

Presented with Theatre Replacement as part of their International Intensive Series and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts Visiting Foreign Artists Program.

Admission for both the One-day and Intensive Three-day workshops were by application only. Resumes and 250-word letters of intent were submitted to Associate Curator Dani Fecko at dfecko@rumble.org

Fee for one-day Workshop: January 25 – $25

Fee for three-day Intensive Workshop: January 26-28 – $125

Case Study of The Idiot and Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech

January 28, 2012, 11AM – 1PM
Carousel Theatre Studio
1411 Cartwright Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC

A candid conversation with James Fagan Tait (director of The Idiot) and Toshiki Okada (director of Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech), about the way their pieces developed, how choices were made, where stumbling blocks arose and how things might have gone differently. Moderated by Maiko Bae Yamamoto.

A conversation with Claude Poissant

February 4, 2012, 3:30PM – 5:30PM
Performance Works
1218 Cartwright Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC

Claude Poissant, one of Quebec’s most celebrated theatre directors, discussed his work, his approach to scripts and how he finds balance between running a company (Théâtre PAP, Montreal) and his work as a freelance contractor. Moderated by Rumble Associate Artistic Producer Anita Rochon.

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Everything is Terribly Nice Here by David van Belle – produced by Ghost River Theatre in association with Rumble, was a politically charged play inspired by the murder of Danish film maker Theo van Gogh by Muslim extremist Mohammed Bouyeri. Three years in the making, Everything is Terribly Nice Here is viscerally intelligent theatre that challenges and unsettles assumptions about free speech, fundamentalism and the limits of tolerance.

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Wildly funny and scathingly provocative, this production was a full mounting of Pound of Flesh Theatre and Pacific Theatre’s critically acclaimed staged reading in 2009.

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Winner of the Georgia Straight Critics’ Choice Award – Vancouver Fringe 2011

About Stars and Hearts

From London, Ontario, Jayson McDonald is the Artistic Director of Stars and Hearts and The Natural Broadcasting Company, as well as a founding member of alt-sketch group Fully Insured. He is the creator and writer of the long-running radio-noir parody The Boneyard Man, seen across Ontario on Rogers Television. He’s received a Special Merit award in the Theatre BC National Playwriting Competition, and five London Brickenden Theatre Awards.

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About Main Street Theatre

Main Street Theatre is a Vancouver based theatre company dedicated to producing contemporary classic plays in an intimate environment with a focus on storytelling. With four hit shows and 11 Jessie nominations under their belt, the company is ready to surprise Vancouver audiences again.

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A Last Resort is the newest work from the creators of the award-winning Tiny Apocalypse, which debuted at the 2008 Tremors Festival.

About Rough House Productions:

Rough House builds, produces and tours new interdisciplinary works for theatre that playfully reflect the absurdities of contemporary culture. They actively bring together emerging and established artists from diverse artistic disciplines and backgrounds to construct innovative, thought-provoking productions that engage audiences through the humanity of live performance.

A Last Resort is presented with the generous support of The Theatre Centre, Youssef-Warren Foundation, Koerner Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, BC Arts Council and City of Vancouver.

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