For Immediate Release: March 2, 1996
Who's afraid of the FUTURE? Vancouver East Cultural Centre & Rumble Theatre, Vancouver's "most alarming theatre company", present
Two New Plays For the Millennium
April 3 & 4 @ 8pm
Amidst a world that increasingly asks the questions "where does our humanity lie in the twilight of this century?" and "what is the connection between our public lives and private history?", Rumble Theatre dares to show us the world we live in, in all it's contradictions, what it was and what it might still be.
Tattoos
A potent and tormenting blur of fact and fiction, tattoos is a new multi-media play about identity, chance, and memory. Drawing from a personal hope chest of post-cards, 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. Performed by Ruth McIntosh. Written and directed by Chris Gerrard-Pinker. With projection by Tim Matheson.
Truth, or The Terrible But Incomplete Journals of John D.
Excerpts from a new work by 1993 Governor General's Award winner Guillermo Verdecchia. Truth is a bitterly comic reflection on contemporary life as we approach the end of the 20th Century, and the mass media's distortion of contemporary social, political and economic reality. A personal document, a chronicle, an indictment, read by Norman Armour.
Since 1991 Rumble Theatre has become known for it's interdisciplinary approach to the development of new Canadian plays. Tattoos and Truth continue the company's lyrical exploration of the incidentals of everyday life.
"an honest dynamic between actor, text, and audience"
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