LOVE+HATE (2015)
Produced by
Presented by
The SummerWorks Performance Festival
Director: Emma Ferrante
Music: Claude Marquis
Lyrics: Claude Marquis
Playwright: Scott Irving
Venue
Run
August 7th, 2015 – August 16th, 2015
Synopsis
Deep. Dark. Danceable! And delivered with stunning pop panache. In the spirit of “doomsday meets jazz hands”, larger-than-life art band The PepTides serves up an arrestingly provocative collection of musical numbers from their acclaimed companion albums LOVE QUESTION MARK and FOR THOSE WHO HATE HUMAN INTERACTION. Using the sounds and imagery of SCIENCEreligionSEXmoneyMEDICINEwar, the nine-member ensemble critically unpacks some of humanity’s most instinctive yet perplexing impulses. In dazzling five-part harmony. With a four-piece band.
Tragedy. Industry! Prehistory? Interwoven with the musical numbers is a series of loosely connected dramatic sketches portraying civilization in its tragicomic unravelling: A precocious girl on a visit to the eye doctor. An alarmingly seductive pharmaceutical company. A retired primatologist with a primordial insight. The question at the heart of LOVE+HATE is “Something seems dreadfully wrong on this planet—could it be us?” And so we are taken on a musical journey into avant-guardedly existential territory—but never without a touch of humour and irony, dahhhling.
“[The PepTides] defy any genre or description. One must simply see them to believe them.” MuchMoreMusic (summerworks.ca)
Cast
| Olexandrea Pruchnicky | Performer |
| Andrew Burns | Performer |
| Claude Marquis | Performer |
| Alex Wickham | Performer |
| Scott Irving | Performer |
| DeeDee Butters | Performer |
| Rebecca Noelle | Performer |
| Dale Waterman | Performer |
| Juan Miguel Gomez Montant | Performer |
Creative Team
| Emma Ferrante | Director |
| Claude Marquis | Music |
| Claude Marquis | Lyrics |
| Scott Irving | Playwright |
| Seth Gerry | Lighting Designer |
| DeeDee Butters | Costume Designer |
Production
| Matt Hertendy | Stage Manager |
| Marilena Gaudio | Production Manager |
