Vancouver East Cultural Centre – Vancouver, BC
Flop
A new ensemble creation from Electric Company Theatre
Produced by Electric Company Theatre
Presented by The Cultch
World Premiere: Jan 26-Feb 2, 2002- The Cultch, MST Territories/Vancouver
If you set out to fail, what does success mean?
Welcome to the world of Flop: a tragicomic tale of ambition, inspiration, idealism, and the bungling, fumbling, belly-flopping attempt to express it. Trace the visions of an eccentric recluse as she builds her dream home from the inside out. Follow her three talented, young architects, shaken to their foundations in the grotesque shadow of human endeavour. Watch in horror as the collaborative process is pushed to its breaking point — and beyond! Audiences embark on a high-voltage journey, filled with the physical and visual vocabulary of live theatre, performed by a group famous across Canada for their “dizzying theatricality”. A celebration of failure, Flop is belated applause for the pipe dreams and ill-fated visions that characterize our best and worst moments as mothers of invention. Come experience a harrowing night of theatre, balancing precariously on the brink of disaster; a maze of unexpected twists and turns, hidden stairwells, and unmarked trip-wires.
Credits
Directed by
Katrina Dunn and Electric CompanySet Design by
Electric Company and Adrian Muir, with Marianne Otterstrom and Rick HollowayCostume Design by
Christine Reimer with Kirsten McghieSound Design by
Electric CompanyLighting Design by
Adrian MuirChoreography by
Wendy GorlingStage Management by
Kelly OCast
Kim CollierCast
David HudginsCast
Kevin KerrCast
Jonathon YoungMedia
“If the risks taken are a measure of a company’s worth, the Electric Company’s shares are rocketing… An hour and 45 minutes of witty, polished performance seldom passes as entertainingly as this show from the extraordinarily inventive minds of this young company.”
“At times I felt I was watching the adventures of Buster Keaton, at others the angst of Samuel Beckett. Ultimately, I left the Cultch feeling I might be in some vibrantly artistic European city like Paris or Prague, not little old Vancouver. (…) If you are not already looking out for the Electric Company, you should be.”
