Flashing Lights (2017)

Produced by

Ahuri Theatre and Bad New Days Performing Arts and Flashing Lights Collective

Playwright: Guillermo Verdecchia
Creators: Adam Paolozza and Liz Peterson and Miranda Calderon and Dan Watson
Director: Adam Paolozza

Venue

The Theatre Centre – BMO Incubator

Run

October 7th, 2017 – October 22nd, 2017

Synopsis

FLASHING LIGHTS tells the tale of Peter, an unremarkable guy who inexplicably becomes famous. His dizzying rise and fall effects everyone around him, in particular his family; his savvy wife Shannon and their child Ter. What starts off as a portrait of contemporary family life quickly unravels into a meditation on the borders between digital and physical existence and the future of this brave new world being created.

FLASHING LIGHTS combines a fantastical absurdist narrative with a highly physical theatrical style using technology like smart phones and tablets as puppets, masks, light, and sound sources. Drawing on the ideas of Marshall McLuhan, Sherry Turkle, Jean Baudrillard and other theorists, FLASHING LIGHTS speaks to the growing anxiety about the future and to the vertiginous feeling that time itself is speeding up. Will humankind’s frail, flesh and blood selves be able to keep up? (theatrecentre.org)

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Cast

Liz Peterson	Performer
Miranda Calderon	Performer
Dan Watson	Performer
Adam Paolozza	Performer
Guillermo Verdecchia	Performer

Creative Team

Guillermo Verdecchia	Playwright
Adam Paolozza	Creator
Liz Peterson	Creator
Miranda Calderon	Creator
Dan Watson	Creator
Adam Paolozza	Director
Ken MacKenzie	Set Designer
Ken MacKenzie	Lighting Designer
Melissa Joakim	Projection Designer
Matt Smith	Sound Designer

Production

Dylan Tate-Howarth	Stage Manager
Tim Lindsay	Technical Director
Navid Amini	Crew
Sarah “Pip” Bradford	Crew
Micah Champagne	Crew
JP Faienza	Crew
Samantha Gignac	Crew
Yoan Holder	Crew
Gord Simmons	Crew
Francesca Chudnoff	Graphic Designer

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