For Immediate Release: May 11, 1998
thinking about sex all the time
The terrible but incomplete journals of John D.
A Rumble Production
Written by Governor General's Award-winning author Guillermo Verdecchia (Fronteras Americanas), The terrible but incomplete journals of John D. is a melancholy, funny, and musical look at the multifarious strains of a deception. A "regular, straight, white, fin-de-siecle kind of guy", a woman known only as M., and a cello are the central elements of this chamber piece built around the curmudgeonly introspections of the reluctant, quasi-EveryMan, John D. The terrible but incomplete journals of John D. is an invitation to listen, reflect, judge and maybe, just maybe, forgive.
June 4-14, 8:30pm at Performance Works on Granville Island. Tickets: $12/$10 Pay What You Can June 9&10.
Since its inception in 1990 Rumble Productions has been about possibilities. As a leading innovator in Canadian Theatre, Rumble continues to foster innovation and embrace collaborative approaches to the creation and dissemination of original Canadian work. Rumble also leads the pack in the exploration of transmedia art which is a new term referring to work by performing artists who have ventured from the stage into the use of different media including: compact disks, film, television, radio and book publishing.
Wireless Graffiti is a transmedia project initiated by Rumble Productions in 1993 with the goal of re-envisioning the theatrical possibilities of live radio and is now expanding into other media. The presentation of John D. is the first installment of a five-part millennial series of Wireless Graffiti's dynamic theatre radio events. Directed by Chris Gerrard-Pinker, starring Norman Armour as John D. and Peggy Lee on the cello, John D. will be broadcast on radio in the near future.
AND in the spirit of transmedia work, Rumble has produced a studio-recorded CD of The terrible but incomplete journals of John D. which will be released at a CD launch on June 11th, 7pm at Performance Works. The CD will tap into new audiences for the performing arts through international distribution via the campus and community radio network of North America.
AND in conjunction with Rumble's presentation of John D., Pacifc Cinematheque presents Terrible Voices: four days of films in ferocious first person. This is a four-day exhibition of independent, innovative, original cinema in frequently ferocious, always terrifyingly direct first-person featuring: Alan Williams' The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati, and Anne Clair Poirier's Tue as crie (Let Me Go).
AND in keeping up with Rumble's process for developing new work, a reading of the upcoming multimedia adaptation by Sally Clark of Chekov's Three Sisters will be held at Performance Works, in conjunction with the Arts Club Theatre.
AND Rumble Productions is now an active member in the Legacies Project. The Legacies Project is composed of cultural and educational institutions and involves the development of arts and public affairs programming which will be presented between 1998 and 2001. An information session about the project will be held at Performance Works June 12 @ 4pm.