100% Vancouver

100 ‘ordinary’ Vancouverites are chosen to embody census data with each person representing one percentile of the city. Answering autobiographical questions, they arrange themselves on stage in living data visualizations.

Production Credits

Produced by: Theatre Replacement, Rimini Protokoll
Directed by: Amiel Gladstone
Casting and Dramaturgy by: Tim Carlson
Stage Manager: Rebecca Craster
Casting Assistants: Donna Soares, Xanthe Faulkner, Sara Bynoe
Production Manager and Technical Director: James Foy
Set and Lighting Design by: Adrian Muir
Video Design by: Tim Matheson
Sound Design and Video installation by: Candelario Andrade
Musical Direction by: Ron Samworth
Musicians: André Lachance, Evan Arntzen, Ron Samworth

Photo credit: Tim Matheson. Photo source: rimini-protokoll.de

Production History

Presented at PuSh International Performing Arts Festival (Vancouver, British Columbia) in September 2011.

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Articles

Jenn Stephenson, “Real People Part 2: Insecurity and Ethical Failure in the Encounter with Strangers--100% Vancouver, Rare, and Polyglotte,” Insecurity: Perils and Products of Theatres of the Real (U of Toronto P, 2019), 48–90.

Tim Carlson, “Matter of Protokoll,” Rimini Protokoll, 21 January 2011, rimini-protokoll.de/website/en/text/matter-of-protokoll.

Richard C. Windeyer, “Petri Dish Deceptions: A Search for 100% Veracity in Rimini Protokoll’s Statistical Portrait of Montreal,” Canadian Theatre Review 175 (Summer 2018), 29–34.

Keren Zaiontz, “Performing Visions of Governmentality: Care and Capital in 100% Vancouver,” Theatre Research International 39, no. 2 (2014): 101–19.

Photo credit: Tim Matheson. Photo source: rimini-protokoll.de