Theatre Conspiracy 
Foreign Radical

Thursday, October 3rd | 7:30 PM (Sold Out)
Friday, October 4th | 2:00PM (Sold Out) & 7:30pm 
Saturday, October 5th | 2:00PM & 7:30 PM
Sunday, October 6th | 2:00PM & 7:30 PM

Alderney Landing Theatre

Co-presented with

Founded in 1995, Theatre Conspiracy is an experimental performance company and registered charity whose critical inquiry and aesthetic curiosity contributes to a public dialogue on vital contemporary themes in the international conversation. Their performances activate and encourage freedom of expression, diversity in identity and opinion, and challenges to the status quo. Based in Vancouver, BC, Theatre Conspiracy provides a platform for artists creating contemporary work for stage and media to investigate new directions in society, politics, and culture.

Foreign Radical

Foreign Radical invites 30 participants into an intriguing theatrical game that explores security, profiling, freedom of expression, and privacy in the age of cybersurveillance. Mobile throughout the performance, the participants collaborate, compete, investigate, debate, and spy on each other.

The Foreign Radical set is divided into four play areas where participants, depending on personal and group responses to various questions posed by the game’s ‘host’, witness different perspectives on the action. They are at times divided into groups or left all alone to gather evidence from dramatic scenes and documentary media that colour their views and how they play the game.

A recipient of a Jessie Award for Critics’ Choice Innovation, Foreign Radical is an interactive, multimedia experience with multilingual elements in English, Farsi, and Arabic. Each performance is unique in that the audience dynamic influences the outcome.

Foreign Radical is a devised co-creation by original team members Tim Carlson, Jeremy Waller, Kathleen Flaherty, David Mesiha, Aryo Khakpour and Milton Lim.Production.

Personnel

Gavan Cheema | Co-Artistic Director, Producer, Stage Manager
David Mesiha | Co-Artistic Director, Sound & Projection Designer, Technical Director, Production Manager
Mehdi Darvish | Performer
Anjela Magpantay | Performer

Tim Carlson | Writer, Producer
Jeremy Waller & Tim Carlson | Original Direction
Milton Lim, Aryo Khakpour | Original Performing Cast 
Cande Andrade | Video
Kyla Gardiner | Lighting Design
Kathleen Flaherty (Playwrights Theatre Centre) | Dramaturgy
Bruce Barton (Centre for Drama, University of Toronto) | Early Dramaturgy

Additional Show Information: 

Runtime 75 minutes, no intermission.
Moments of near darkness, loud sounds, momentary male nudity, and strobing light.

This is NOT a seated performance. Audience members will be asked to move throughout the space, and will be standing for the duration of the performance. Mobility aids are welcome. If you require seating, please email info@EasternFrontTheatre.com or call 902-466-2769.