FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 9th, 2002
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
with Rumble's 2002/03 Season
Fasten your seat belts. Rumble's 2002/03 season promises to push the envelope. We'll be screening films with original live music, premiering Canadian plays, taking a new look at a trusted classic, and launching an international performance series.
Silent Summer Nights
August 30 - September 1
at Grandview Park
Celebrate the Labour Day weekend in style with this free-of-charge homage to the best in silent (and not so silent) cinema. Sit on a blanket under the stars in Commercial Drive's Grandview Park and enjoy Charles Chaplin's City Lights (1931), George Méliès' Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon, 1902), Werner Herzog's Lektionen in Finsternis (Lessons in Darkness, 1992), and Ishioro Honda's legendary Mosura tai Gojira (Godzilla vs. Mothra, 1964). Charmingly co-presented with The Celluloid Drugstore, Radix Theatre and the Eye of Newt Collective (who accompany the films with live music nightly).
Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen adapted by John Osborne
November 30 - December 7
at Vancouver East Cultural Centre
Co-presented with the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Rumble takes a turn with Henrik Ibsen's startling view into one woman's personal and marital entrapments. Featuring Vancouver luminaries Camyar Chai, Bernard Cuffling, Patricia Drake, David Marr, Wendy Noel and Donna White. A new interpretation by director Norman Armour and dramaturg Rachel Ditor, from an adaptation by John Osborne (Look Back in Anger).
PuSh
January - April at various venues
Rumble teams up with Touchstone Theatre to import a collection of brave new works from across Canada and beyond in PuSh, our new International Performance Series.
JIMMY Infrarouge Theatre (Montreal),
January 14-19, 2003
at Studio 16
Created and performed by Marie Brassard, JIMMY is an outstanding performance piece about love, desire and the pleasure of creation. Marie Brassard is best known as a long-time collaborator of Quebecois auteur Robert Lepage. Performances in both English and French.Shadows William Yang (Australia),
January 28 - February 1, 2003
at the Roundhouse Community Centre
Original photography is combined with spoken-word and live music to delicately reveal the stories of two peoples - the Australian Aborigines and the migrant Germans in South Australia.The Dream Machine One Yellow Rabbit (Calgary),
March 26 - April 5, 2003
at VECC
Remember Kerouac and Ginsberg? What about their Canadian collaborator Brion Gysin? His enigmatic Dream Machine was designed to induce a vision of reality uncluttered by the pernicious effects of big business and advertising.
The Young & The Restless
April 15 - 26, 2003
at Performance Works
The finest in fresh, homegrown theatre. Rumble's The Young & The Restless showcases, in repertory, two daring young companies and the premiere of two original Canadian plays. Part of the See Seven subscription series. Supported by VanCity Credit Union and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation - Granville Island.
then she by Adam Cowart
(Shifting Point Theatre)
Another girl is missing, another parent's nightmare: then she is an unsettling skip across fantasy and reality to the outer regions of justice and personal civility.Snowman by Greg MacArthur
(Section 8 Theatre)
A spit of a town on the edge of a glacial sheet. Snowsuits, German porn and cocaine. Simple people simply scraping by. One dead body and your whole life can change.
Pilots & Artist Residencies
Led by dramaturg Rachel Ditor, Pilots is a unique program that fuels the creation of new writing for the theatre. On board this season are Frank Borg, Tim Carlson, Amiel Gladstone, Joy Russell and Maiko Bae Yamamoto. Guest Artist Residencies enable Ilena Lee Cramer from Screaming Weenie Productions, and Craig Hall and Kevin MacDonald of Section 8 Theatre to stock up on new skills, expertise and other supplies. Playwright-in-Residence Aaron Bushkowsky (The Dead Reckoning, Strangers Among Us) is commissioned for a new play inspired by archival photos of Vancouver at the turn of the century.
transmissions
Published annually, transmissions is Vancouver's only publication on "theatre, arts and ideas." Aaron Bushkowsky edits the fall edition, with contributions from the Pilots' writers.
ABOUT RUMBLE
Founded in 1990, Rumble Productions collaborates with visionary artists from Vancouver and beyond, to produce and present for the theatre and other media. Since its inception, Rumble has presented the work of over 200 Canadian performing artists, developed ten original plays, and received 23 Jessie nominations and five Jessie awards.
Rumble's 2002/03 season explores the limitless art of storytelling. Look for the venerable and the up and coming. Anticipate the inventive, the arresting, and the darkly comic. Expect the unexpected.
"So few dare to challenge their audiences so rigorously." - Georgia Straight
For more information, call 604.662.3395 for our 2002/03 Season Brochure
Rumble Productions gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Department of Canadian Heritage, Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, City of Vancouver - Office of Cultural Affairs, VanCity Credit Union, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation - Granville Island, and the Georgia Straight.