Foreign Radical by Theatre Conspiracy

Theatre-game hybrid that explores security, profiling, freedom of expression, and privacy in the age of cybersurveillance. 
​Attended Summer 2015. 
Direction:  Jeremy P. Waller & Tim Carlson
Script : Tim Carlson
Performers:  Mehdi Darvish, Marilyn Perreault & Anjela Magpantay
Sound & Music:  David Mesiha
Video:  Cande Andrade
Lighting design:  Kyla Gardiner
Dramaturgy :  Kathleen Flaherty (Playwrights Theatre Centre)
Early dramaturgy: Bruce Barton (Centre for Drama, UofT)
Costume Design for The Host:  Sasha Schaepe (UK Tour 2018)

Foreign Radical was co-created by Tim Carlson, Jeremy Waller, David Mesiha, Kathleen Flaherty, Milton Lim, Aryo Khakpour, Florence Barrett and Cande Andrade. It was developed with the assistance of Playwrights Theatre Centre, The Cultch and Banff Centre, and premiered at The Cultch in 2015.
EDINBURGH FRINGE FIRST AWARD 2017

After five years of touring nationally and internationally, Foreign Radical will be presented for the first time in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto in a spring 2020 tour. The show will also be seen in French with a new translation by Lyne Barnabe.

FOREIGN RADICAL invites 30 participants into an intriguing theatrical game that explores security, profiling, freedom of expression, and privacy in the age of cybersurveillance. Mobile throughout the performance, the participants collaborate, compete, investigate, debate, and spy on each other.

The Foreign Radical set is divided into four play areas where participants, depending on personal and group responses to various questions posed by the game’s ‘host’, witness different perspectives on the action. They are at times divided into groups or left all alone to gather evidence from dramatic scenes and documentary media that colour their views and how they play the game.
A recipient of a Jessie Award for Critics’ Choice Innovation, Foreign Radical is an interactive, multimedia experience with multilingual elements in English, Farsi and Arabic. Each performance is unique in that the audience dynamic influences the outcome.

✯✯✯✯✯     It’s a show that gets under your skin. — The Scotsman
✯✯✯✯       Theatre Conspiracy has created a boundary-pushing new work in Foreign Radical. — The Skinny
✯✯✯✯       This is a clever, provocative show.  ... Foreign Radical is urgent, timely and necessary. — The List
✯✯✯✯       Relevant, provocative and disturbing. — Broadway World
✯✯✯✯       This thrilling interactive experience sticks close the soul. — A Younger Theatre

The line between security and tyranny has rarely been so stimulatingly debated. — The Guardian
Highly entertaining...and infinitely political. — VOIR, Quebec
Foreign Radical ... remains one of the most thought-provoking shows I have seen in a very long time. It works on multiple levels, with the most profound coming in the exploration of one’s own beliefs. — Mark Robins, Vancouver Presents
Tim Carlson introduces Foreign Radical — The Skinny
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