Full Description for THE 31ST RHUBARB FESTIVAL - WEEK TWO OVERVIEW

Week Two Feb 17 - 21

THE CABARET
8pm Hunting!
8:30pm Moustaches & Lipstick
9:00pm Headbangers

THE CHAMBER
8pm The Future of Theatre
8:30pm Insurgency
9:00pm Le Petit Mort
9:30pm she

Week Two special events
Week Two Kick-Off Bash: Wed, Feb 17,10pm, The Cabaret
I've Got My Own Thing Going On ®: Wed, Feb 10, 7:30pm - on, The Lobby
Panel: Live Performance: A Transaction of Risk, Sun, Feb 21, 4pm, Free

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WEEK TWO OPENING NIGHT BASH
Wed, Feb 17, Cabaret, 10pm
Betty Burke

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Hunting!
8pm, The Cabaret
Written and Performed by Rae Spoon
Animations by Jessica MacCormack

Rae Spoon traces his journey from growing up in a pentecostal church in Calgary to touring as a transgendered country singer and beyond with music, stories and animations.

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The Future of Theatre
8pm, Chamber B
by Jeremy Bailey

Jeremy Bailey will demonstrate innovative new software he has created specifically for the performing arts industry. Don't miss this exciting opportunity to witness the future of theatre.

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Moustaches & Lipstick
8:30pm, The Cabaret
Conceived and created by: Jonathan Seinen and Lindsey Clark
Performed by Lindsey Clark and Aubrey Laufer

Fusing live theatre and electronic music, Moustaches & Lipstick explores rhythm, gender, love, communication, escape, and sequins.

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Insurgency
8:30pm, Chamber A
Conceived and directed by Jordan Tannahill; Produced by Sarah Sherman
Performed by Melanie Barber, Simon Brand, Justine Kitteringham, Miya Strauss, Liam Sullivan
Original music composed by Katie Stelmanis

Five pre-teen youth are brought to an abandoned suburb where they launch a rebel insurgency against an unknown enemy. In the post-cause generation, what is there left to die for?

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Headbangers
9pm, The Cabaret
Conceived and directed by: Jonathan Heppner and Sasha Kovacs
Created with and performed by Andrya Duff, Tina Fushell, Kat Sandler, Rebecca Singh

Headbanger: A fan of heavy metal music.
Headbanging: A dance that involves violently shaking the head in time with music, most commonly rock music and heavy metal music.
Headbangers: A piece that finds the subversive in our everyday patterns of head-bobbing and head-butting through an unlikely group's descent into the world of metalheads and extreme hair.

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Le Petit Mort
9pm, Chamber B
Co-created by Ian Mozdzen and Mia van Leeuwen (out of line theatre)
Directed by Ian Mozdzen
Performed by Mia van Leeuwen

Le Petit Mort is based upon Georges Bataille's short story The Dead Man (or Le Mort).

Le Petit Mort ... our sloppy spin on Georges Bataille. Raw expressionistic erotic ... Mia wrestles with a divinely filthy heroine - Marie - a widow who nakedly flings herself into snatchety snatches, poo poo, and doo doo ... and she wrestles a dwarf, too.

"The audience was unsure if it should laugh or gag." (The Uniter)

outoflinetheatre.com

Le Petit Mort was created with the financial assistance of The Winnipeg Arts Council.

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she
part 1 of the she raw now trilogy
9:30pm, Chamber A
by d'bi.young, music by prymtym
dubnotic sound system featuring d'bi.young and prymtym

she is the first play in a new trilogy of biomyth-monodramas by d'bi.young entitled she raw now. a young black womban snew is enchanted with a pop icon. as her enchantment becomes obsession, what's real is make-believe and lines of fantasy and reality are possibly permanently blurred.

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Wednesday Lobby Performance, 7:30pm and on
I've Got My Own Thing Going On ®
Created and performed by Chris Dupuis, Celebrity Artist

Meet Chris Dupuis, Celebrity Artist! In 2007 Paris Hilton successfully trademarked her personal catch-phrase "That's Hot!" with the US Patents office. Following Hilton's lead, Dupuis has trademarked his own catch phrase "I've Got My Own Thing Going On". Meet Dupuis and learn how to use this handy phrase in everyday conversation.

Every Wednesday during the Festival

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Panel: Live Performance: A Transaction of Risk

Sun, Feb 21, 4pm, The Cabaret, Free

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