Advance Theatre - From This Side of the End
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Wednesday January 29 2025
Approximate running time: 2 hours
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Ruby Slippers Theatre in association with The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and Playwrights Guild of Canada present The Advance Theatre Festival: Advancing the Radically Inclusive Stage. Five Staged Readings over Five Days
FROM THIS SIDE OF THE END
Playwright: Kate Besworth
Co-Creators: Kate Besworth, Ming Hudson, Charlie Gallant, Kaitlin Yott, Olivia Hutt, Baraka Rahmani, Agnes Tong
*READING OF PLAY ONLY*
From this Side of the End is a collaboratively-created play about four young people making their way across the Canadian landscape and facing almost every apocalyptic event possible (floods, fires, earthquakes, acid rain, zombies, etc) on their way to safety. The piece asks incisive questions about the world that they have left behind, and offers imaginings for what we can all seek to create in our future world together. It is a sobering, candid, and hopeful look at starting again, especially the way in which community love plays a necessary part in the rebirth of our societies.
Content Warning: From This Side of the End contains subject matter that include: climate disaster, nuclear disaster, pandemics, physical violence and sexual assault. No sexual assault occurs onstage.
BIOS of Co-Creators:
Kate Besworth (playwrite)
Kate Besworth (she/her) is a theatre creator, performer, and writer living on the unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-waututh people. Kate has performed leading roles across Canada, from Mirvish to the Shaw Festival, and from MTC to Bard on the Beach. Recently, Kate was commissioned to write Done/Undone, Bard on the Beach’s first feature film, about the relevance of Shakespeare in our current world. Playwright for ANTIGONE, Two Planks and a Passion, 2023 season; a one-woman show commission from Shakespeare in the Ruins, 2024 season; Done/Undone, Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, 2024 season.
Ming Hudson (co-director)
Ming is a Vancouver based artist who pays rent on the lands stolen from the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. For almost 20 years, she has worked as a freelance performer, devised theatre creator, collaborative director, independent producer, and teaching artist on the west coast, nationally, and internationally. Her specialisations are in physical theatre and the creation of new work as a collective ensemble. A graduate of the Advanced Devising Practice program at LISPA (now arthaus.berlin), Ming also holds a MA in Ensemble Theatre (Rose Bruford), and a BFA in Acting (UVic).
Ming has worked for Bard on the Beach, The Arts Club, UBC, Chemainus Theatre Festival, UVic, CCPA, Dell'Arte International, Gwaandak Theatre, TheatreOne, Two Planks and a Passion, Studio 58, Green Thumb Theatre, Theatre Replacement, Atomic Vaudeville, The Firehall, Boca del Lupo, Concrete Theatre, and Kaleidoscope Theatre. In addition, she has created ten new independent productions, which have been performed in five different countries.
Charlie Gallant (co-director)
Charlie is best known as an actor with 8 seasons at Bard On The Beach, 4 at The Shaw Festival, 2 at Stratford, and multiple performances at The Arts Club, Rumble, Greenthumb, Ruby Slippers, Mitch & Murray, Belfry, Citadel, RMTC, and more; voice-over work on Paw Patrol: the Movie and Netflix’s Scott Pilgrim Takes Off; and film/tv such as Percy Jackson & The Olympians, Good Witch, Fringe, and Murdoch Mysteries. Charlie is also a skilled and passionate acting coach, director, dramaturge, musician/composer, and photographer who is grateful to collaborate with this team to create new and inspiring theatre. Training: Studio 58, MacIlroy & Associates.
Kaitlyn Yott (performer)
Kaitlyn Yott (she/they) is a Queer mixed Nisga’a, Gitxsan, Nikkei Kanadajin and European Settler performer and storyteller. She has been an active participant in the resurgence of Indigenous Storytelling through the lens of Canadian Theatre. Her proudest credits to date are originating the role of Mikaya in Kim Senklip Harvey’s Kamloopa, and is currently in development, playing the role of Scarlett in Kim Senklip Harvey’s Break Horizons: A Rocking Indigenous Justice Ceremony. She has recently made a shift into Film and Television, having recently booked Principle and Leading roles on both the CW and Dreamworks. She is thankful to her team of mentors, family and friends who keep her driven to create safe storytelling practices for the current and following generations.
Olivia Hutt (performer)
Olivia Hutt is a Canadian actor living in Vancouver. She is honoured to play and engage as a settler on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. As a theatre artist she has worked for companies such as Bard on The Beach, ITSAZOO Productions, The Cultch, Green Thumb Theatre and YPT- A Jessie Richardson Award winner, a collaborator, dramaturg, and lover of constructively decolonizing theatre today.
Baraka Rahmani (performer)
Baraka (She/Her) is an Arab-Canadian actor who moved to Vancouver from Jordan in 2010 to pursue her BFA in performance at Simon Fraser University. She has since performed on renowned stages across the country including The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, The Arts Club, and The Grand Theatre Film credits include Incendies (Denis Villeneuve), Slasher (Adam MacDonald) and The Alleys (Bassel Ghandour).
Agnes Tong (performer)
Agnes Tong was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario but now calls Vancouver home. The West Coast mountains and fresh air persuaded Agnes to stay after she graduated Studio 58 theatre school. Before Studio 58, Agnes was working as a professional dancer on Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, B.A.D. dance company in San Francisco, and freelancing in Toronto. Some of her favourite theatre credits include: carried away on the crest of a wave, The Great Leap, The Shoplifters, King Charles III, 4000 Miles (Arts Club Theatre), The Ones We Leave Behind (VACT), and Kim's Convenience (Chemainus Theatre). Some film and tv highlights include: The Good Doctor (ABC), Under Wraps (Disney), Charmed (CW), and The Romeo Section (CBC).
Location: Room 103
All tickets $15.00
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Purchase 3 different “Shadbolt Presents” shows for the same Patron and receive a special subscription price of $5.00 off per ticket . Available by phone only. Arts Club on Tour, Jazz @ the Bolt and shows $25 and under can be included as one of the three required for subscription however they will not receive the $5.00 discount. Not included: Arts Club on Tour and Jazz @ the Bolt
Please contact the Box Office if you require accessible seating or have ticketing or subscription questions. 604.205.3000
No refunds on tickets. 2.00 fee per ticket for exchanges
FROM THIS SIDE OF THE END
Playwright: Kate Besworth
Co-Creators: Kate Besworth, Ming Hudson, Charlie Gallant, Kaitlin Yott, Olivia Hutt, Baraka Rahmani, Agnes Tong
*READING OF PLAY ONLY*
From this Side of the End is a collaboratively-created play about four young people making their way across the Canadian landscape and facing almost every apocalyptic event possible (floods, fires, earthquakes, acid rain, zombies, etc) on their way to safety. The piece asks incisive questions about the world that they have left behind, and offers imaginings for what we can all seek to create in our future world together. It is a sobering, candid, and hopeful look at starting again, especially the way in which community love plays a necessary part in the rebirth of our societies.
Content Warning: From This Side of the End contains subject matter that include: climate disaster, nuclear disaster, pandemics, physical violence and sexual assault. No sexual assault occurs onstage.
BIOS of Co-Creators:
Kate Besworth (playwrite)
Kate Besworth (she/her) is a theatre creator, performer, and writer living on the unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-waututh people. Kate has performed leading roles across Canada, from Mirvish to the Shaw Festival, and from MTC to Bard on the Beach. Recently, Kate was commissioned to write Done/Undone, Bard on the Beach’s first feature film, about the relevance of Shakespeare in our current world. Playwright for ANTIGONE, Two Planks and a Passion, 2023 season; a one-woman show commission from Shakespeare in the Ruins, 2024 season; Done/Undone, Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, 2024 season.
Ming Hudson (co-director)
Ming is a Vancouver based artist who pays rent on the lands stolen from the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. For almost 20 years, she has worked as a freelance performer, devised theatre creator, collaborative director, independent producer, and teaching artist on the west coast, nationally, and internationally. Her specialisations are in physical theatre and the creation of new work as a collective ensemble. A graduate of the Advanced Devising Practice program at LISPA (now arthaus.berlin), Ming also holds a MA in Ensemble Theatre (Rose Bruford), and a BFA in Acting (UVic).
Ming has worked for Bard on the Beach, The Arts Club, UBC, Chemainus Theatre Festival, UVic, CCPA, Dell'Arte International, Gwaandak Theatre, TheatreOne, Two Planks and a Passion, Studio 58, Green Thumb Theatre, Theatre Replacement, Atomic Vaudeville, The Firehall, Boca del Lupo, Concrete Theatre, and Kaleidoscope Theatre. In addition, she has created ten new independent productions, which have been performed in five different countries.
Charlie Gallant (co-director)
Charlie is best known as an actor with 8 seasons at Bard On The Beach, 4 at The Shaw Festival, 2 at Stratford, and multiple performances at The Arts Club, Rumble, Greenthumb, Ruby Slippers, Mitch & Murray, Belfry, Citadel, RMTC, and more; voice-over work on Paw Patrol: the Movie and Netflix’s Scott Pilgrim Takes Off; and film/tv such as Percy Jackson & The Olympians, Good Witch, Fringe, and Murdoch Mysteries. Charlie is also a skilled and passionate acting coach, director, dramaturge, musician/composer, and photographer who is grateful to collaborate with this team to create new and inspiring theatre. Training: Studio 58, MacIlroy & Associates.
Kaitlyn Yott (performer)
Kaitlyn Yott (she/they) is a Queer mixed Nisga’a, Gitxsan, Nikkei Kanadajin and European Settler performer and storyteller. She has been an active participant in the resurgence of Indigenous Storytelling through the lens of Canadian Theatre. Her proudest credits to date are originating the role of Mikaya in Kim Senklip Harvey’s Kamloopa, and is currently in development, playing the role of Scarlett in Kim Senklip Harvey’s Break Horizons: A Rocking Indigenous Justice Ceremony. She has recently made a shift into Film and Television, having recently booked Principle and Leading roles on both the CW and Dreamworks. She is thankful to her team of mentors, family and friends who keep her driven to create safe storytelling practices for the current and following generations.
Olivia Hutt (performer)
Olivia Hutt is a Canadian actor living in Vancouver. She is honoured to play and engage as a settler on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. As a theatre artist she has worked for companies such as Bard on The Beach, ITSAZOO Productions, The Cultch, Green Thumb Theatre and YPT- A Jessie Richardson Award winner, a collaborator, dramaturg, and lover of constructively decolonizing theatre today.
Baraka Rahmani (performer)
Baraka (She/Her) is an Arab-Canadian actor who moved to Vancouver from Jordan in 2010 to pursue her BFA in performance at Simon Fraser University. She has since performed on renowned stages across the country including The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, The Arts Club, and The Grand Theatre Film credits include Incendies (Denis Villeneuve), Slasher (Adam MacDonald) and The Alleys (Bassel Ghandour).
Agnes Tong (performer)
Agnes Tong was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario but now calls Vancouver home. The West Coast mountains and fresh air persuaded Agnes to stay after she graduated Studio 58 theatre school. Before Studio 58, Agnes was working as a professional dancer on Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, B.A.D. dance company in San Francisco, and freelancing in Toronto. Some of her favourite theatre credits include: carried away on the crest of a wave, The Great Leap, The Shoplifters, King Charles III, 4000 Miles (Arts Club Theatre), The Ones We Leave Behind (VACT), and Kim's Convenience (Chemainus Theatre). Some film and tv highlights include: The Good Doctor (ABC), Under Wraps (Disney), Charmed (CW), and The Romeo Section (CBC).
Location: Room 103
All tickets $15.00
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Purchase 3 different “Shadbolt Presents” shows for the same Patron and receive a special subscription price of $5.00 off per ticket . Available by phone only. Arts Club on Tour, Jazz @ the Bolt and shows $25 and under can be included as one of the three required for subscription however they will not receive the $5.00 discount. Not included: Arts Club on Tour and Jazz @ the Bolt
Please contact the Box Office if you require accessible seating or have ticketing or subscription questions. 604.205.3000
No refunds on tickets. 2.00 fee per ticket for exchanges