dystopia

The Nether is a delightfully textured piece about catharsis, crime and how to navigate ethics and morality when reality isn’t reality any more. It will make you feel—disgust, temptation, anger, shock, love, sympathy, sadness, horror and pleasure; perhaps all at once—and it will make you think. Is this where we’re headed in our society? What would it mean for what we call our lives? Our identities? Is this “Nether” a blessing or a curse?

Written by Jennifer Haley, the Vancouver Fringe incarnation of The Nether was produced by Redcurrant Collective, a local company including many faces that will be familiar...

Based on a story by Robert J Sawyer and originally scripted by Jae Dunphy, director Alberto White’s dystopian near future may not be so far away from our present.  As he says in his program notes: “Humans are bad at change, like the frog in the pot of water brought to a boil, we don’t notice anything changing until it’s too late.”  

Terrance Hayman plays detective Andrew Walker with energy and nuanced assuredness.  His emotional range is as broad as it is deep as he’s called to respond to and deal with professional, family and external challenges in...

Genre Definition = Intense · Intellectual

Ryan M. Sero’s dystopic comedy A Modicum of Freedom (produced by make.art.theatre as part of SummerWorks) is set in an Orwellian future where the totalitarian government exerts complete control over the citizens. While the setting is far from original, the twist is new; the entire population is given day-to-day instructions on how to live their personal lives, as dictated by ministry-appointed writers and overseen by omnipresent security officers. Unfortunately this potential-heavy premise never quite manages to get off the ground, leaving the audience more preoccupied with imagining Sero’s world for themselves than attending the details put forth on stage....

A Modicum of Freedom