31st Rhubarb! Festival Buddies in Bad Times Theatre 12 Alexander St, Toronto February 17-21, 2009 @ 8pm Conception and Direction: Jordan Tannahill Insurgency asks whether Generation Z, a cohort defined by many adults as apathetic and narcissistic, has the capacity for revolution. 5 pre-teen youth are filmed embarking on an urgent uprising, though the enemy is not immediately clear. Perhaps they are simply trying to conjure some distant memory of revolt. The footage is then screened behind them onstage while they attempt to answer the question: "What would you die for, in real life?" Press Articles for Insurgency:
Conception and Direction: Jordan Tannahill Six agents provacateurs enter the lives of the real-life residents of Neighbourly Lane, a sleepy subdivision in suburban Toronto, and begin uncovering their hopes, regrets, fears, and secrets. With flourishes of dark comedy, the loose narrative follows six residents over the course of one day and one night and how their respective longings and desires inextricably link them together. With Eddington’s evocative score and the piece’s imagistic multi-media design, Post-Eden creates amythology for this suburban crescent in which the residents’ lives converge with their depictions of paradise, and the wilderness reclaims what is rightly hers by night.
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