FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 8, 2003
BRACE YOURSELF!
for Rumble's 2003/04 Season
This year is not for the faint of heart. With over 50 live performances, you will encounter spontaneous evenings of film and live music, theatre and dance that defy definition, stories that test the improbable, spine-tingling premieres, and high velocity performances.
Silent Summer Nights, 8:15PM August 29 - 31, Grandview Park (Commercial at William)
Celebrate the end of summer in style. Saunter into Grandview Park after dark for three enchanting evenings of film and original live music by Eye of Newt and invited special guests. A Labour Day Classic. Presented with Radix Theatre and The Celluloid Drugstore. Free of charge!
Friday, August 29 - The Ron Samworth Quartet.
The Railrodder (1965) Buster Keaton & Gerald Potterton
Ashik Kerib (The Lovelorn Minstrel, 1988) Dodo Abashidze/Sergei Parajanov
Saturday, August 30 - Eye of Newt.
The Blue Planet - The Deep (2001)
Le peuple de l'herbe (Microcosmos, 1996) Claude Nuridsany & Marie Pérennou
Sunday, August 31 - Guest Conductor Coat Cooke and the SSN Monster Orchestra.
Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Don Chaffey
PuSh International Performance Series
January 14 - 31
Rumble teams up with Touchstone Theatre for the second annual airlift of brave new works from Canada and beyond.
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Kaleidoskop (Copenhagen)
January 14 - 24, Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC
Franz Kafka, hovering between life and death, observes his own story. Nothing is as it seems, fiction and reality merge in fevered imaginings of conflicting dreams and desires. Recipient of Denmark's prize for best new drama, this new English translation stars Patrick Keating, Jamie Long and Allan Morgan. Written and directed by Martin Tulinius. A PuSh initiative with UBC's Theatre, Film, and Creative Writing Department. For tickets call UBC at 604.822.2678.
A Suicide Site-Guide to the City,
Mammalian Diving Reflex (Toronto)
January 20 - 24, Firehall Arts Centre
The premier performance by one of Canada's most beguiling creators (White Mice, pppeeeaaaccceee, Who Shot Jacques Lacan?). Written and performed by Darren O'Donnell. Live accompaniment by sound innovator Murr (da grass roots, LAL). Directed by Rebecca Picherack; produced by Naomi Campbell. For tickets call Festival Box Office at 604.257.0366.
The Birds, Burnt Norton and Fuse,
Three works by Deborah Dunn (Montreal)
January 28 - 31, Scotiabank Dance Centre
The Dance Centre and PuSh join forces for the presentation the much-anticipated West Coast premiere of choreographer Dunn's Hitchcock-inspired work, The Birds. Rounding out the program are Burnt Norton, an exploration of the first of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, and the four-minute gem, Fuse. For tickets call Festival Box Office at 604.257.0366.
Sign Language: A Physical Conversation,
Denise Clarke (Calgary)
January 30 - 31, Scotiabank Dance Centre
Imagine creating a work from the accumulated effect of 50 improvisations witnessed by a single observer. Imagine it being inspired by Radiohead's "Fitter, Happier" litany on the OK Computer album. Imagine it being danced in the nude, and later a salon style conversation with the audience. You are beginning to imagine the latest work by Denise Clarke. For tickets call Festival Box Office at 604.257.0366.
To purchase a PuSh Series Pass - $60 for all 4 events - call Touchstone at 604.709.9973.
The Young & The Restless
March 18 - 27, Performance Works
"The joy of Theatre SKAM's The Wedding Pool is its sheer theatricality, in the fresh and inventive way it has been put together."
- The Toronto Star ****
"So back to younger guys. Sex becomes like an All You Can Eat buffet: It wasn't great, but at least the portions were large."
- Amiel Gladstone, from The Wedding Pool
Rumble's legendary showcase for new and emerging artists returns with Victoria's Theatre SKAM and The Wedding Pool: a dangerous comedy concerning the lives of four people and their struggles with death, taxes - and yes, the probability of marriage.
Written and directed SKAM's Artistic Director, Amiel Galstone and starring Sarah Manninen, Lucas Myers, Matthew Payne and Camille Stubel. Only eight fearless performances! Supported by VanCity Credit Union and CHMC - Granville Island. For single tickets and See Seven subscriptions, call Festival Box Office, 604.257.0366
Soulless
by Aaron Bushkowsky
April 7 - 24, Performance Works
Bob is a downtown developer with a lot on his mind. Darren is the lawyer Bob so desperately needs. Gerald has a personal interest in photography; he works for Bob, or so Bob thinks. Rachael works at a gallery and no longer finds Darren so amusing - but Bob, well that's another matter entirely. Claire? Let's just say everybody, including Bob, is having a hard time pinning her down. Set in present-day Vancouver, Soulless is a tale of redemption at the crossroads of money, longing and contested ground.
For this premier by local playwright and poet Aaron Bushkowsky (One Last Kiss, Mars is for Poems, The Dead Reckoning, Strangers Among Us), projections wizard Tim Matheson and composer extraordinaire Stefan Smulovitz join Rumble's award winning design associates Barbara Clayden, Andreas Kahre and John Webber. Directed by Norman Armour, with dramaturgy by Rachel Ditor, and featuring Lois Anderson and Jamie Long. Made possible by the generous support of the Vancouver Foundation. For single tickets and See Seven subscriptions, call Festival Box Office, 604.257.0366.
Pilots & Artist Residency
Lead by Associate Dramaturg Rachel Ditor, Pilots is a unique partnership with the Playwrights' Theatre Centre program that fuels the creation of new writing. On board this season are local writers Aaron Bushkowsky (Soulless), Lynn Coady (Make Me), Patty Fraser and Marcus Youssef (The Cool Market). Guest Artist Theatre SKAM touches down, re-fuels and charts new destinations.
transmissions
Published annually, transmissions is Vancouver's publication on "theatre, arts and ideas." Rachel Ditor edits the fall edition, exploring the meaning of sacrifice, with contributors Manami Hara, Bill Millerd, Margeret Specht and Max Wyman. Due out November 15.
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 28 Jessie nominations and five Jessie awards.
Rumble's 2003/04 season celebrates artists and audiences of the independently minded persuasion. Plan for the ingenious, the audacious and the delightfully mischievous, as Rumble once again takes it to the edge
Rumble gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Department of Canadian Heritage, Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, City of Vancouver - Office of Cultural Affairs, Vancouver Foundation VanCity Credit Union, CHMC - Granville Island, BC Gaming Commission, The Printing House and the Georgia Straight.
Media Contact
Ellie O'Day
O'Day Productions
604.731.3339
ellie@oday.org