Foreign Radical draws participants into an intriguing theatrical game world exploring security, profiling and privacy in the age of cyber surveillance.
Date/Time: Feb 10 2017, 9:00 pm to 10:10 pm
Vancouver, Studio 1398 | Event calendarAge: 14+
Cost: $25.00
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Mobile throughout the performance, participants collaborate and compete, investigate and debate, gather evidence and spy on each other. Depending on personal and group decisions, they are at times in divided in groups to witness different perspectives on dramatic scenes.
Winner of the Georgia Straight "Critics Choice Innovation Award 2015"
“Top 10 theatre shows 2015 – The Georgia Straight and Vancouver Presents"
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“I spent more time thinking about this show than any other in 2015.” Mark Robins, Vancouver Presents
“This level of personal engagement is unusual in the theatre, and it’s stimulating, as is the fluidity of the event.” Colin Thomas, Georgia Straight
Testimonials
“I get grilled at the border almost every time I leave Canada and enter another Western country. As a brown man in a white country my privacy is invaded daily in the name of security and fears around terrorism. Foreign Radical is a show that captured my feelings and experience around this beautifully and made a statement that every immigrant community wants to make about our human rights / privacy. It’s a must see for everyone no matter what is your age, gender, culture.” Rohit Chokahni, Artistic Producer, Diwali Festival, Vancouver
"I can’t say enough about this performance piece by Theatre Conspiracy. It was on my mind for days after. Foreign Radical makes you take an active part in this game that is is being played with our rights and freedoms on the world stage. One second you are the victim; the next the interrogator. In the end you are left with a vast number of questions and a dark cloud of anxiety that looms overhead each time you click on a politicized link on the internet or when you cross a border. Essentially, Foreign Radical makes you feel like the entire Muslim world has felt since 9/11. – Tarique Qayumi, filmmaker, Targeting
Performances on February 7 are Pay What You Can at the door!
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Warnings: Brief scene of nudity. Course language. The audience will be mobile throughout the show. No latecomers!
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