Theatre Melee is a Vancouver based theatre company that creates darkly absurd comedy. Its members are Courtenay Dobbie, Erin Mathews, Juno Ruddell, Andrew McNee, Michael Rinaldi, and Craig Hall.

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Director – Eric Rose
Set and Lighting design – John Webber
Sound Design – Matthew Waddell
Costume Design – Deitra Kalyn
Starring – Clinton Carew and Ali Momen with Alexa Devine

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“The Last Days of Judas Iscariot makes most contemporary plays seem safe, timid and dull, and reminds us of what is missing not only from 99% of our drama but from 99% of our lives – a sense of spirituality and of mystery.” – The Telegraph

Halfway between Heaven and Hell, in a place called Hope, history’s most infamous sinner stands trial. In a court room that’s as much ghetto as gospel, the witnesses are called – Mother Teresa, Pontius Pilate, Sigmund Freud, a foul-mouthed Saint Monica, a high school football coach, a handful of Jesus’ disciples – to decide questions of forgiveness, mercy, and eternal damnation.

Wildly funny and scathingly provocative, this production was a full mounting of Pound of Flesh Theatre and Pacific Theatre’s critically acclaimed staged reading in 2009.

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“Believe the hype: this is one invisible robot that deserves to be seen.”

                                                      – Winnipeg Sun

Russel is a terminally shy young man who’s had one imaginary friend all his life. Unfortunately, that imaginary friend is a Giant Invisible Robot programmed to destroy. Join Russel as he attempts to find love, bury the past, and prevent his Giant Robot from destroying Earth’s cities one by one.

Winner of the Georgia Straight Critics’ Choice Award – Vancouver Fringe 2011

About Stars and Hearts

From London, Ontario, Jayson McDonald is the Artistic Director of Stars and Hearts and The Natural Broadcasting Company, as well as a founding member of alt-sketch group Fully Insured. He is the creator and writer of the long-running radio-noir parody The Boneyard Man, seen across Ontario on Rogers Television. He’s received a Special Merit award in the Theatre BC National Playwriting Competition, and five London Brickenden Theatre Awards.

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The setting for Endgame is a bare, partially underground room, serving as shelter for Hamm the master, Clov his servant, and Hamm’s father and mother, Nagg and Nell (who live in garbage cans). Hamm is in a wheelchair and makes Clov move him around the room, fetch objects, and look out the window for signs of life. Outside all seems dead and nothing happens. Inside, the characters pass the time mortifying each other and toying with fears and illusions of a possible change, all along sensing the inevitability of their end. Main Street Theatre continues their exploration of contemporary classics in intimate settings with their much-anticipated mounting of Beckett’s masterpiece.

About Main Street Theatre

Main Street Theatre is a Vancouver based theatre company dedicated to producing contemporary classic plays in an intimate environment with a focus on storytelling. With four hit shows and 11 Jessie nominations under their belt, the company is ready to surprise Vancouver audiences again.

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In 2004, video artist Candelario Andrade left his home in Mexico and set off in search of a new life. That same year, playwright Camille Gingras returned to Canada as a last resort. An intimate multimedia performance, A Last Resort explores the lengths two people will go for that perfect life just beyond the horizon.

A Last Resort is the newest work from the creators of the award-winning Tiny Apocalypse, which debuted at the 2008 Tremors Festival.

About Rough House Productions:

Rough House builds, produces and tours new interdisciplinary works for theatre that playfully reflect the absurdities of contemporary culture. They actively bring together emerging and established artists from diverse artistic disciplines and backgrounds to construct innovative, thought-provoking productions that engage audiences through the humanity of live performance.

A Last Resort is presented with the generous support of The Theatre Centre, Youssef-Warren Foundation, Koerner Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, BC Arts Council and City of Vancouver.

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