NOW PLAYING
Return of the Megafauna
At The Kick and Push Festival
August 17-20, 2022
Tickets, schedule and showtimes
AUDIO COMPONENT
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Return of the Megafauna
produced by Bad New Days
presented by The Kick and Push
credits
concept, direction, production, puppetry // Adam Paolozza
dramaturgy, puppetry // Kari Pederson
large sloth performer // Sebastian Reimer
puppetry // Seymour Irons
outisde eye, puppet coaching, sound design // Nick di Gaetano
production assistant // Phil Fernandez
large sloth suit designer and builder // Graeme Black Robinson
large sloth suit building assistance, costumer // Allie Marshall
tiny sloth puppet designer and builder // Clelia Scala
special thanks to Liam Karry and the whole Kick and Push team
Return of the Megfauna acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
NEWS: APRIL/MAY 2022
Bad New Days brings ITALIAN MIME SUICIDE to The Theatre Centre after a critically acclaimed, smash-hit run in Montreal at Théâtre Aux Écuries, earning a “Top Ten Shows of 2021” by the Montreal Gazette.
With an imagistic aesthetic reminiscent of the kitsch iconography of clowns, mimes and world-weary circus acrobats, ITALIAN MIME SUICIDE sensitively explores the levity within tragedy, creating a funny, poetic meditation on melancholy, the acceptance of failure and the usefulness of art in troubled times.
ITALIAN MIME SUICIDE marks Bad New Days’ return to Toronto stages to ask why do we make art, why is it important, and why now?
“Italian Mime Suicide features four marvellous mimes accompanied by a turntable musician who fuses jazz, electro and traditional polyphonic singing. Through different vignettes, always funny, sad and touching at the same time, the characters depict what could have caused the despair of this mime and pushed him to end his life. […] isn’t that precisely the magic of mime? To offer only poetry and beauty, even if it is a question of interpreting the greatest tragedies…?” –Sophie Jama, pieuvre.ca
COMING SOON to The Theatre Centre
@thetheatrecentre
April 21st - May 1st
All Tickets are on a Pay What You Can Afford sliding scale, available at:
https://theatrecentre.org/event/italian-mime-suicide/
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poster photo by Omar David Rivero
background photo by Najim Chaoui
teaser by Sandrick Mathurin
NEWS: FALL/WINTER 2021
Quebecois Premier of Italian Mime Suicide
Makes Montreal Gazette's Top 10 of 2021 List
Based loosely on the true story of an Italian mime who jumped off a building claiming no one appreciated his art, Italian Mime Suicide is a (mostly) silent play about Mime.
Using a lyrical, physical, comedic style - imagine Robert Wilson meets Cirque du Soleil - and a visual aesthetic indebted to Picasso’s paintings and the kitsch iconography of world-weary mimes, clowns, and acrobats, Italian Mime Suicide is a poetic, philosophical meditation on themes of mental health, dignity in failure, and the usefulness of art in troubled times.
Italian Mime Suicide returns to Toronto this April at The Theatre Centre, stay tuned for more information!
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