HURRICANE MONA
Development History:
World Premiere November 2023 - Touchstone Theatre & Ruby Slippers Theatre
50th Banff Playwrights Lab
Recipient of Touchstone Theatre’s David King Prize
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts Workshop - Fall 2021 Supported by the BC Arts Council
Arts Club Theatre Company Emerging Playwrights Unit 2019/2020
Description:
Hurricane Mona is a fast-paced and absurdist dark comedy about an upper-middle class family at the literal center of a climate emergency.
‘Rebel environmental activist and elder millennial Mona is placed under house arrest after smashing a police car topless during a peaceful climate march. Forced to serve her term in her parent’s suburban home, tensions flare as Mona rails against the shopping habits of her Boomer parents and her Gen Z sibling’s apparent apathy in the face of looming catastrophe. But as Mona’s burning drive for her family to “do better” begins to turn the home on its head, an unimaginable disaster happens right in the middle of their living room, forcing them to reckon with themselves and a future in crisis.
A crazy mushroom trip, a giant talking frog, and catastrophic family dysfunction: Hurricane Mona is a hilarious and arresting cautionary tale for our times.’
The Mayor and The Chief: this is not reconciliation
Created and performed by: Kim Senklip Harvey and Pippa Mackie
Development History:
CanStage Mirco-Grant 2021
Cultch’s Grow-A-Show Artistic Residency 2020/2021
Description:
The Mayor and The Chief: This is Not Reconciliation is part cabaret, part lecture, part karaoke and all parts de-colonial comedy exploring the friendship of an Indigenous and a white woman. This is an 80-minute, audience interactive show that will guide us through some tough fuckin’ shit and make you laugh…mostly. This show will be created with the flexibility to travel, whether it be a local bar, remote location, digital sphere or a large theatre.
To find out more, read Kim Senklip Harvey’s BLOG HERE.
(photo credit: Kezia Nathe)
The Fucking Garden
by Kit Redstone (UK) and Pippa Mackie (Canada)
FULL LENGTH PLAY
A wickedly dark and impishly mischievous reclamation of the Adam and Eve story.
Follow their journey from creation to expulsion to life beyond paradise. A sibling-like relationship of games and power dynamics, Adam and Eve charter the messy, complex journey of getting to know each other and understanding the world around them.
Have we evolved since the first man and woman or are we still playing out the same old tired dance?
Warning: contains fucking and gardening.
Written and performed by multi-award-winning satirists Kit Redstone and Pippa Mackie.