About the Event

A featured event in the 2008 Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Vancouver, HIVE 2 took over 2 warehouse spaces at the Digital Media Centre for a 9-day marathon of perspective-rocking, intimate, outrageous, and eclectic performances by 11 independent BC theatre companies. Building on the success of the original HIVE, the member companies of Progress Lab were commissioned by the Festival through a grant from Arts Partners in Creative Development. Veda Hille curated 9 bands for the after-show party each night, and Glenn Alteen of Grunt Gallery brought some seriously live artists to the cabaret space.

Rumble collaborated with Theatre Melee, a company-in-residence, on our Hive 2 offering, The End is Here!

The End is Here!

Four survivors in a post-apocalyptic world face an uncertain future. Should they try to fight back? Repopulate the planet? Or just get to know each other better?

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About the Show

In the summer of 2005 actor/writer James Long salvaged a collection of seven photo albums and travel journals from an alley near his East Vancouver home. The collection, complete with detailed captions and letters, documents a family’s history between 1950 and 1987, and includes everything from birth notices to a full eulogy for the archivist’s Pomeranian, Mandy. In the fall of 2007, a team of collaborators went in search of the origins of these books and ran into multiple questions surrounding the legality and morality of working with found materials. What started as a simple trip to the country carried the creators on narrative jags across propriety, oceans, and beyond. Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut uses fact, fiction, video, interviews, a rabbit suit and anything else required to make sense of the found materials and the many lives interrupted along the way.

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About the Show

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.

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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.

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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.

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About the Show

Ray confronts a hidden past when Una arrives suddenly at his office in David Harrower’s explosive play, Blackbird. Guilt and raw emotions turn poisonous as they recollect a passionate but disastrous affair they had 15 years earlier. As tensions rise, we are left to question: where is the line between love and abuse? And can we ever break free from the shackles of the past?

Winner of three 2007/08 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards:

Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role, Small Theatre for Russell Roberts
Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Lead Role, Small Theatre for Jennifer Mawhinney
Outstanding Direction, Small Theatre for Norman Armour

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About the Show

Horrific events are overwhelming the entirety of human civilization. Four strangers must decide what to do with what could be their final hours. Should they pray? Fight back? Repopulate the earth? Or just get to know each other a little better? Cozy Catastrophe is a dark comedy about ordinary folks bound together by extraordinary circumstance.

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“I’ve never seen anything like it. And I loved every minute of it.” – Vancouver Courier

About the Show

Haruki Murakami is the West’s favorite Japanese novelist. His work has been translated into forty different languages, so perhaps it is unsurprising that he has spent much of his adult life away from his homeland. In 1995 two disasters struck Japan: the lethal earthquake in Kobe and the deadly poison gas attacks on the Tokyo subway. Spurred by these tragic events, Murakami abandoned his life abroad and returned home to confront his country’s grief. after the quake is a collection of short stories set in the months that fell between the earthquake and the subway attack presenting a world marked by despair, hope, and a kind of human instinct for transformation.

Renowned American Writer/Director Frank Galati’s adaptation of After the Quake takes its audience on a journey where magic and realism collide, in an exploration of disrupted realities. Junpei, a gentle, caring writer, loses the love of his life, Sayoko, when his aggressive best friend, Takatsuki, marries her. They have a child, Sala. He remains close friends with them and becomes even closer after they divorce, but still cannot bring himself to declare his love for Sayoko. Sala is traumatized by the quake and Junpei concocts a wonderful allegorical tale to ease her hurt. To give himself courage he crafts a tale of a bank loan officer’s struggle to distinguish between what is real and what is not, when six foot tall Frog asks for help to fight off Giant Worm for the future of Tokyo. Together, these stories explore the emotional aftershocks of disaster, and offer a message of hope and healing.

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“A powerhouse of wit and hard-learned wisdom as performed by an actor in a rabbit suit.” – Realtime Australia

“Clark and I proves that some human communication is still beyond the bounds of copyright – even other people’s memories.” – Toronto’s Eye Weekly

In the summer of 2005, James Long salvaged seven photo albums and travel journals from an alley near his East Vancouver home. The collection, complete with detailed captions and letters, documents a family’s history between 1950 and 1987, and includes everything from birth notices to a full eulogy for the archivist’s Toy Pomeranian, Mandy. Two years later, a team of collaborators traveled in search of the origins of these books, and ran into some serious questions surrounding the legality and morality of working with found materials.

Clark and I uses fact, fiction, video, interviews, a rabbit suit and anything else required to make sense of these found materials and the many lives interrupted along the way.

Winner of the Innovation Award (sponsored by the Vancouver Sun) at the 26th annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards.

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Written by Courtenay Dobbie, Craig Hall, Andrew McNee, Erin Mathews, Michael Rinaldi and Juno Ruddell
Director – Courtenay Dobbie & Craig Hall
Featuring – Andrew McNee, Juno Ruddell, Erin Mathews and Michael Rinaldi
Sound Design – Michael Rinaldi
Fight Choreography – Kevin James

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