March 18 – April 5, 2008
at Performance Works, Granville Island
Legoland
by Jacob Richmond
An Atomic Vaudeville production
Co-presented by Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad
March 18 – 22
“An offbeat charmer not to be missed.” – Vancouver Courier
Legoland is the story of the infamous Lamb siblings, extradited to Canada after a brutal attack on one of America’s most beloved pop stars. In this award-winning production, the duo gives a presentation of the harrowing odyssey at their high school. A contemporary Vaudeville routine with ukulele, puppets and gangster rap.
Cast:
Ezra Lamb: Amitai Marmorstein
Penny Lamb: Celine Stubel
Production Team:
Direction: Jacob Richmond and Britt Small
Design: Janis Ward
Sound Design: Jacob Richmond and Britt Small
Stage Management: Britt Small
Penny Dreadful: A Tale of Devilish Infamy
Created by the Zuppa Circus Theatre Collective
A Zuppa Circus Theatre Production
March 25 – 29
“[Halifax’s] most innovative theatre company. Zuppa Circus does things that haven’t been done before… weird, wonderful and enigmatic.” - The Coast Weekly
1863. Mice are gathering under the floorboards on a wealthy Halifax estate. In the servants’ quarters, Charlie is setting traps while Adelaide, the drunken scullery maid, has delusions of sainthood. The two servants become the fascination of their employer’s wayward son, home with stories of travels in strange lands. A love triangle develops, driven by greed, temper and a perverse sense of destiny, culminating in a violent murder and public hanging.
Minimally staged, with an intimate audience/performer relationship and a live musical score, Penny Dreadful is a tale of revelation and love in the age of syphilis.
Cast:
Adelaide: Susan Leblanc-Crawford
Charlie: Ben Stone
Harry: Stewart Legere
Musician: Claire Gallant
Production Team:
Direction: Alex McLean
Music Composition: David Christensen and Jason MacIsaac
Dramaturgy: Bruce Barton
Costume Design: Leesa Hamilton
Lighting Design: Louisa Adamson
Tiny Apocalypse
By Camille Gingras
A Rough House production
With the assistance of Theatre Replacement
April 1 – 5
Tiny Apocalypse follows the rise and fall of Rita, an obsessively organized office worker who finds herself caught in a daily repetitive loop. Within the narrow, grey hallways of the Company, an institutional landscape of mindlessly humming photocopiers, she is normally as regular in her body as she is at her work. But for the past six weeks, nothing has happened. No period- period. Then one day, whilst standing by the photocopier, something happens: an extraordinarily tiny event, which causes her carefully ordered world to spiral wildly out of control.
Darkly comic and playfully irreverent, Tiny Apocalypse scrutinizes the surreal banalities and submerged hysteria of office life in a world shaped and monitored by surveillance.
Garnered six Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nominations and a win for John Webber in the category of Outstanding Lighting Design.
Cast:
Rita: Cherise Clarke
Production Team:
Direction: James Fagan Tait
Choreography: Dana Gingras
Video Design: Candelario Andrade
Set Design: David Roberts
Lighting Design: John Webber
Sound Design: Mike Bernard
Stage Management: Samara Van Nostrand
Also Shaking at TREMORS
TREMORS Gallery & Lounge
March 18 – April 5
Grab a drink and stroll around our unique and freak gallery—before or after the main stage shows. Feature some of Vancouver’s most talented emerging visual artists.
Foreshocks & Aftershocks
March 21 – 22: Theatre Bagger
March 28 – 29: TigerMilk Collective
April 4 – 5: Theatre Bombus
Inspired by the performance installation extravaganza HIVE, Rumble offers three hot emerging companies six days to create an intimate performance.
Carnival Exorcism Dance Party
March 22
Join us for a wicked night of live music from Victoria, BC’s Meatdraw, one of the best carnival exorcism dance bands in the world. The fierce, raging joy with which they transport and delight their audiences is rock music, amplified by horns, saw, accordion and intricate musicianship. Stomp-gospel dirges, post-apocalyptic crooner ballads, mythic power anthems and ghostly car-chase jazz suites are channeled through these talented deviants.
A Party of Devilish Infamy
March 29
Come and overindulge your villain/villainess self at A Party of Devilish Infamy. With decadent drinks and treats with symphonies of incandescent electronic pop (sounds by Montag, www.montag.ca), the night is sure to be rife with scandal and intrigue. Join Rumble in partnership with the Magnetic North Theatre Festival in celebrating the richness of Art, festivals and the “beau monde”.
Show-Off: High School Edition
April 5
Teams of high school students from around the Lower Mainland gather to participate in this exciting, ten-minute play creation contest. This fun and imaginative event includes mentorship from professional artists and gives students the opportunity to strut their stuff in a professional venue.