For Immediate Release:
August 15, 2001
Rumble Productions in association with the Firehall Arts Centre presents
Foreign Bodies & Footfalls
The Firehall Arts Centre,
280 East Cordova Street, Vancouver
September 5- 16, 2001, Tuesday-Sunday, Tickets $12
Preview, September 5, 9:30PM
Opening, September 6, 7:00PM
A See Seven Show.
The Firehall Arts Centre braces itself for the arrival of not one, but two emerging companies at the forefront of a new generation of theatre-makers. Tangled Tongues Performance (Noah Drew & Adrienne Wong) creates physical theatre that slices through the skin of social and political relationships to see what really makes the heart beat. Tandem Productions (Shane Droucker & Erin Wells) is decidedly avante-garde- devoted to a theatre composed from a web of spoken, gestural and visual associations.
Foreign Bodies
Tangled Tongues Performance
A man moves into his lover's apartment... China 'reunites' Tibet with the Motherland... a young girl holds the belly-less carcass of a pigeon between her palms... a hand is placed beneath a master's foot. Fiction wrestles with history, sexuality collides with cultural politics, and nations struggle for power in the story of one couple's jockeying for position on their west-coast futon. Created and performed by Noah Drew and Adrienne Wong (Other Women). Directed by Camyar Chai of NeWorld Theatre, with design by Barbara Clayden and John Webber.
Footfalls
By Samuel Beckett
Tandem Productions
A woman paces a stretch of now threadbare carpet. The voice of her mother - real or imagined - hangs in the air. Footfalls is a glimpse into a ghostly, spiritual halfway house illuminated briefly by the interplay of time, shadow and light. Pure Beckett. Pure theatre. Pure poetry. Featuring Elizabeth Dancoes and Erin Wells. Directed by Rumble Artistic Associate Chris Gerrard-Pinker, with design by Shane Droucker and Enigma Arcana.
This is the third installment in Rumble's Youth Mentorship Program, preceded by Blueprints for Disaster (2000), and Other Women (1999). Rumble Productions creates risky, thought-provoking work that crackles with wit and imagination. Innovation is our trademark. Founded in 1990, the company collaborates with visionary artists from Vancouver and beyond to produce and present for the theatre and other media.