A Rumble Productions presentation
in association with the Here Be Monsters Collective
March 14 - 31, 2007
Performance Works, Granville Island
TREMORS Main Stage Presentations:
The Headless Cowboy
by Brad Payne
Broken Spoke Theatre (Calgary)
March 14 - 17
RAUNCHY ROCKABILLY SATIRE
Rock, revenge and an alien named Ginger With Knives!
The Headless Cowboy is a rockabilly satire merging music and performance with the visual strengths of theatre, dance and video bringing a fresh, comedic look at a heart-breaking tragedy in a multi-disciplinary performance by three of Alberta's most sought-after artists. The Headless Cowboy explores the nature of belief in a compelling tale. The titular Cowboy seeks revenge against Dead Man who shot off his head and kidnapped his girl - Cry Baby. Meanwhile, the alien Ginger with Knives is collecting sperm samples to start a human petting zoo.
"Manages to combine art, science, environmentalism and vampiric catholics into a smart sixty-minute satire." - Beyond Robson
Cast and Production Team:
Direction: Eileen Sproule
Performers: Brad Payne, Kristine Nutting, Kyrsten Blair, Andrew Payne and Ian Manhire
Fathom
by Jodi Essery and SaBooge Theatre
SaBooge Theatre (Montreal)
March 20 - 24
GROTESQUE PHYSICAL THEATRE
Convicts, Tasmania and an earth-shattering secret!
SaBooge transports us beyond the seas to the sun-parched tedium of Hobart Town, an infant colony farther from civilization than the moon. When a traveling naturalist discovers the colony's incredible secret, a convict mother and her extraordinary son break their silence, taking on the local gentry, its fundamentalist bigots, and the naturalist's earth-shattering claim, in an attempt to save the lives they have worked so hard to keep hidden. Fathom is a mesmerizing and engrossing tale of expectation and tragedy set in colonial Tasmania, a god-forsaken land that time and progress have long forgotten.
- WINNER—BEST PRODUCTION, ESB DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2004
- WINNER—BEST TEXT, MONTREAL ENGLISH CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD (MECCA) 2004
- WINNER—OVERALL PRODUCTION & TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT, TALKIN' BROADWAY 2005 SUMMER THEATRE FESTIVAL CITATION
"A marvellous piece of stagecraft." - The Georgia Straight
Cast and Production Team:
Performers: Attila Clemann, Patrick Costello, Kayla Fell, Adrienne Kapstein and Andrew Shaver
Sound Design & Music Composition: Jeff Lorenz
Production & Lighting Design: Simon Harding
Stage Management: Audrey Finkelstein
Yu-Fo
by James Long and Maiko Bae Yamamoto
Theatre Replacement (Vancouver)
March 27 - 31
HAUNTING MUSICAL STORYTELLING
A mysterious hitchhiker, a BC highway and a really juicy peach!
YU-FO is a new creation by Theatre Replacement that brings together an exciting group of collaborators to further the company's artistic practice and creation methodology. Conceived and written by Theatre Replacement's artistic director Maiko Bae Yamamoto, Yu-Fo follows the interactions one fateful night between a Canadian man and the mysterious Japanese woman he encounters at a side-of-the-road diner off the breathtaking Sea-to-Sky highway in BC.
"Yu-Fo is so deliberately, deliciously strange and so wildly off the wall that this is decidedly not the week for fans of conventional theatre to be haunting Performance Works." - Vancouver Sun
Cast and Production Team:
Performers: James Long, Maiko Bae Yamamoto and Veda Hille
Direction: Amiel Gladstone
Musical Composition and Direction: Veda Hille
Music Performance: Mark Petersen
Movement Direction: Sarah Chase
Lighting Design: Itai Erdal
Stage Management: Kelly Barker
ALSO SHAKING AT TREMORS:
Salon Des Refuses Gallery
March 14 - 31
Performance Works, Granville Island
The Here Be Monsters Collective present the Tremors Monster Bar and "Salon Des Refusés" Gallery. Featuring some of Vancouver's most respected (and rejected) low-brow artists! Join us for a drink and a stroll through our unique and freaky gallery.
"Olympia Binewski" by Andrea Lynn TuckerBootCamp (Workshop)
March 19 - 27
Capri Hall, 3925 Fraser St
This intensive workshop with John Turner (Smoot of “Mump & Smoot”) is designed to be a catalyst for a more expansive concept of what clown is and how it can be used. Using various writing and development techniques and exercises to evoke both left and right brain involvement, the participants explore their own unique approach to the creation of material and performance.
Waking The Clown (Workshop)
March 24
Playhouse Production Centre, 160 West 1st Ave
Hosted by SaBooge Theatre
Brought together by their training at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, SaBooge Theatre is a critically acclaimed ensemble whose filmic, image-based physical performances combine rigor, pedagogy, and a boundless collective imagination. Waking The Clown will explore clown-based character creation through games and exercises exploring hierarchy, identification and development of theme and simplicity of play. Through improvisation we will discover how to have immediate contact with your audience, how to expose the ridiculous in yourself and how to become a channel for the unexpected.
(Photo by J.J. Titzou, featuring Andrew Shaver & Attila Cleman)
Show-Off: Foreshocks & Aftershocks
A theatre company, a line of text, an image, a sound byte, and a limited time to create a short show. You may have heard of this recipe before, but you’ve never seen it like this! Inspired by Show Off: Theatre Under the Gun and HIVE, 3 hot emerging companies will be given six days to create a performance that will take place in and around Performance Works — anywhere except the stage, because why make it easy?! Arrive early, grab a drink at the Monster bar and witness the mayhem!
Friday, March 16th and Saturday, March 17th
Screaming Flea
Friday, March 23rd and Saturday, March 24th
Theatre Melee
Friday, March 30th and Saturday, March 31st
The Chop
St. Patty’s Day Psychobilly Hoedown!
March 17
Performance Works, Granville Island
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day and join us for a wicked night of live music with the Cryptomaniacs, the notorious Psychobilly band from Calgary!