Roots + Wires at Rhubarb!
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Many of performances in this year’s Rhubarb festival rub elbows with some of our general interests…
Please see program below….
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre presents
THE 29th RHUBARB FESTIVALFestival Director Erika Hennebury
Evening Pass $15 / Week Pass $20 Box Office 416-975-8555
artsexy.ca
WEEK TWO LINE-UP: FEB 27 – MAR 2, 2008
roots + wires
8pm, The Chamber
Created and Performed by Vancouver’s the memelab: Jesse Scott and Mirae Rosner
“Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd.”
(Deleuze et Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: p. 3)
Currently based out of Vancouver, BC, the memelab is an artistic collaboration between Mirae Rosner, Jesse Scott, and the peoplings and groupings that we encounter along our way. Together, we traverse the micro-politics between movement, media, noise, and theory. roots + wires is an ongoing process: becoming-animal, becoming-nomad, becoming-sorcerer.
“I didn’t think anyone could make Deleuze and Guattari funny” –anonymous
A Minor Symphony in Bees
8pm, Tallulah’s Cabaret
Created and directed by Christopher Stanton
Co-Created and performed by Tara Beagan, Margaret Evans, Geoffrey Pounsett and Aaron Talbot
A Hive presentation
Scientists are struggling to explain a mysterious collapse in global honeybee populations. A world without bees is a scary place, as they play a primary role in pollinating virtually all human food sources. So why are they disappearing? Why the same situation the world over? And why am I always yelling into my cellphone?
Lichtenstein’s an 8: A New Formula to Quantify Artistic Quality
8:30pm, Tallulah’s Cabaret
Co-created and directed by Norman Lup-Man Yeung
Co-created by Kathy Moretton, Featuring Laura Nordin, John Rowe and Aaron Kopff
So now we can apply science to better understand art. But what artist would agree to their work being assigned a numerical value like a pH rating? A hybrid of scientific lecture, artistic rabble-rousing, subversive slideshow, lo-fi cinema, and toy glockenspiel, this environmental-theatre-happening exposes how science and art are siblings, whether they like it or not.
post-democracy
9:15pm, Tallulah’s Cabaret
Written by Hannah Moscovitch, Directed by Natasha Mytnowych
Set and Lighting Design Kim Purtell, Featuring Matt Edison & David Storch
post-democracy takes you behind the barbed wire at the World Economic Summit, where a CEO of an international corporation desperately tries to keep one of his Executive’s sexual indiscretions from jeopardizing a multi-million dollar deal. A voyeuristic glimpse inside disaster capitalism.
amateur track and field
9:45pm, The Chamber
conceived & performed by sean macmahon
music by space mountain (steve marsh & sean macmahon)
It’s a Matter of Scale: The Nuclear Revolution
Dedicated to the Revolutions Part Six
presented by Small Wooden Shoe
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Fri Feb 29, 10:30pm, The Chamber
Created and performed by Frank Cox-O’Connell, Chad Dembski, Sasha Kovacs, Brendan Healy, Aimee Dawn Robinson, Evan Webber and Jacob Zimmer
Small Wooden Shoe tries to answer some questions about how very small things make very big changes. And about how both the very big and very small effect medium sized things, such as humans. With white boards, transcription and maybe some singing.
Round Two: The Young Creators’ Unit
Helga by Alisha Stranges and Squashed by Jordan Tannahill
Sat Mar 1, 7pm
Buddies supports the development of young artists in a variety of ways. With The Young Creators’ Unit, four queer artists under the age of 25 meet weekly with Evalyn Parry and Edward Roy to develop their work in a supportive and challenging creative atmosphere. Come early at 7pm and check out what they’ve been up to.
MINI-STAGE AND SOLO-STAGE PERFORMANCES
Open Nightly from 8:30 – 9:45pm, in The Ante Chamber
Wed, Feb 27
MINI-STAGE:
Famous Gestures
by Trevor Schwellnus
An up-to-the-minute audiovisual anthropology of a few favorite gestures, explored by repainting them live with light upon the bodies of those who love them.
SOLO-STAGE:
How to Recognize an Invert
by Alistair Newton, Production design by Matt Jackson, Featuring Andrew Bathory, Kaitlyn Regehr and Julia Cameron
Do you have a preference for particular smells? Are you a good whistler? As a child did you develop an interest in theatre and the arts? If so, you may be an Invert. Do not despair! Herr Doktor is in and we are here to help; a German Expressionist appointment with 19th century psychotherapy.
THURS, FEB 28
MINI-STAGE
Israel Eats Itself
by Tobaron Waxman, performed by Adam Paolozza
Incorporating an interview with a PTSD afflicted veteran of 5 wars, this tableau vivant uses the body as an analogue to landscape, land occupation, and ‘Holy Land’, to interrogate Jewish concepts of ‘purity’, nation state, and Middle East border conflict.
SOLO-STAGE
What’s Your Problem?
by The Problem Guy
Got a Problem? Call the Problem Guy. 1-800-PRO-BLEM All Problems Solved in 5 Minutes or Less. Guaranteed.
FRI, FEB 29
MINI-STAGE
Performance Amnesia
Created and performed by Sam Stedman and Alexis Butler
A remembrance of the forgotten performance experiments of the past. Is contemporary, cutting-edge experimentalism simply an incessant reinvention of a one hundred year old wheel?
SOLO-STAGE
A Mechanical Life
by Ken MacKenzie & David Oiye
Are you just going through the motions? Have you lost all control of the choices in your life? We offer you the chance to see what it’s like to make decisions, really big decisions, that can affect a really tiny life. Turn a crank, pull a lever and watch the possibilities unfold.
SAT, MAR 1
MINI-STAGE
Applause
written and performed by David Bateman, directed and performed by Nick Probst
A fast ride through the memory of a phone sex relationship based on artifice, auto-eroticism, and the sound of two hands clapping.
SOLO-STAGE
Dream Interpretation
by Shannon Cochrane
Drop in for Dream Interpretation and other odd stories. This time you tell me what it means.
SUN, MAR 2
MINI-STAGE
Untitled 2008
by JP Robichaud
Hot Chocolate. Have some.
SOLO-STAGE
The Dead Texan Colour Shitter
by Sherri Hay
And her dark material.
The 29th Rhubarb Festival
Festival Director Erika Hennebury
Feb 20 – Mar 2, 2008
Tickets $15 Evening Pass/$20 Week Pass
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre
12 Alexander Street, Toronto ON
Box Office 416-975-8555
www.artsexy.ca
