Rumble Theatre showcases innovative Tremors Festival, May 18 to 28

Event hosted every two years returns with five stunning works

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Firas Nassri, Sasha Theodora, and Jonathan Hardy’s The ghosts within us/les fantômes qui nous habitent.

Rumble Theatre is hosting their biennial Tremors Festival live at Progress Lab 1422 from May 18 to 28. With a focus on exploring new visions for live connection through the arts, this year’s festival will present five multidisciplinary works from across Canada.

Mainstage performances will take place from May 18 to 20, with a unique vibe that emulates an art party meets night market. The pieces resonate with interconnectedness, and delve into the impact of spirit across world views.

Samantha Walters’s Order of the New Hyphae is an immersive, devised performance that reconstructs ecological thought and post-human spiritualities through the lens of an apocalyptic fungi cult.

Combining scripted material and improvisation, Jeff D’Hondt’s The Knoll is a ghost story and therapy simulation in which a son remembers his father, Norfolk County’s most infamous mischiefmaker. The semi-autobiographical performance contrasts Indigenous and non-Indigenous understandings of being haunted by people and places we miss.

From the creative mind of B’atz’ Recinos bursts TAOS (The Art of Storytelling), a new multidisciplinary work infusing Indigenous (Abya Yala) traditions with current cultural aesthetics. The piece brings audiences on a theatrical journey through allegory and myth.

In The Fresh Prince of Egypt, David Kaye paves the way with an irreverent mash-up of Jewish tradition and hip hop storytelling.

David Kaye in The Fresh Prince of Egypt. Photo by Zuckermann Wong

Last but not least, duo Firas Nassri, and Jonathan Hardy’s The ghosts within us/les fantômes qui nous habitent delves into ancestral folklore, mythologies, and histories—combining them with traditional rhythms, contemporary electronic production techniques, and folk singing.

Over the second weekend of May 26 to 28, Rumble Theatre will partner with the National Arts Centre, Chromatic Theatre, Gwaandak Theatre, lemontree creations, TODOS Productions, and Undercurrent Creations for a special presentation of Stages of Transformation’s Spring Showcase.

The multi-year project is a culmination of research, rumination, creative exploration, and conversation. Bringing together theatre artists, arts workers, and creative communities from across Canada, the work explores how abolition and transformative justice can impact theatre-making in process, content, form, and dissemination.

Stages of Transformation’s Spring Showcase will feature performances by Raven John, Keira Nolting, Sobia Shaheen Shaikh, Kris Vanessa Teo Xin-En (张欣恩), and Ravyn Wngz.

Tickets to the Tremors Festival and more information is available at Rumble Theatre.

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