Foreign Radical
Drawn into a series of confessional games by a malevolent Host, mobile audience-players confess various illegal, controversial or simply embarrassing views and past actions. We engage in spying on others and experience surveillance ourselves, as we consider the governmental-judicial institutions that watch and control us.
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Production Credits
Co-created by: Tim Carlson, Jeremy Waller, David Mesiha, Kathleen Flaherty, Milton Lim, Aryo Khakpour, Florence Barrett and Cande Andrade. Directed by: Jeremy P. Waller & Tim Carlson Script by: Tim Carlson Produced by: Theatre Conspiracy Cast: Mehdi Darvish, Marilyn Perreault and Anjela Magpantay Sound and Music by: David Mesiha Video by: Cande Andrade Lighting Design by: 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) |
Photo credit: David Mesiha. Photo source: conspiracy.ca
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Production History
Théâtre aux Écuries: Montreal, QC, March 4-6, 2020
La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardins | Théâtre à Ottawa/le Théâtre du Trillium/Théâtre la Catapulte: Ottawa, ON 27-29 February 2020
New Theatre Royal Portsmouth – StageHouse: Portsmouth, UK 17-19 September 2018
Heads Up Festival: Hull, UK 21-22 September 2018
Paint the Town Festival: Medway, UK 28-29 September 28-29 2018
Arts Depot: London, UK 8-10 October 8-10 2018
Strike a Light Festival: Gloucester, UK 12-13 October 2018
High Performance Rodeo: Calgary, AB 17-20 January 2018
Edinburgh Festival Fringe: (UK premiere) Edinburgh, Scotland 2-28 August 2017
Carrefour international de théâtre festival: Quebec City, QC 9-10 June 2017
Studio 1398: Vancouver, BC 7-11 February 2017
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts: Burnaby, BC 14-16 July 2016
The Cultch: (world premiere) Vancouver, BC 7-25 April 2015
Banff Centre of the Arts (interdisciplinary residency): Banff, AB 22 February - 2 March 2015
Your Kontinent Film and Media Arts Festival: (in-process) Richmond, BC, 22-26 July 2014
University of Toronto: (in-process) Toronto, ON 24 May - 3 June 2014
Black Plastic (in-process): Vancouver, BC 20-21 December 2013
La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardins | Théâtre à Ottawa/le Théâtre du Trillium/Théâtre la Catapulte: Ottawa, ON 27-29 February 2020
New Theatre Royal Portsmouth – StageHouse: Portsmouth, UK 17-19 September 2018
Heads Up Festival: Hull, UK 21-22 September 2018
Paint the Town Festival: Medway, UK 28-29 September 28-29 2018
Arts Depot: London, UK 8-10 October 8-10 2018
Strike a Light Festival: Gloucester, UK 12-13 October 2018
High Performance Rodeo: Calgary, AB 17-20 January 2018
Edinburgh Festival Fringe: (UK premiere) Edinburgh, Scotland 2-28 August 2017
Carrefour international de théâtre festival: Quebec City, QC 9-10 June 2017
Studio 1398: Vancouver, BC 7-11 February 2017
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts: Burnaby, BC 14-16 July 2016
The Cultch: (world premiere) Vancouver, BC 7-25 April 2015
Banff Centre of the Arts (interdisciplinary residency): Banff, AB 22 February - 2 March 2015
Your Kontinent Film and Media Arts Festival: (in-process) Richmond, BC, 22-26 July 2014
University of Toronto: (in-process) Toronto, ON 24 May - 3 June 2014
Black Plastic (in-process): Vancouver, BC 20-21 December 2013
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Press
“The line between security and tyranny has rarely been so stimulatingly debated” - The Guardian
“This is a clever, provocative show. … Foreign Radical is urgent, timely and necessary” - The List
“This is a clever, provocative show. … Foreign Radical is urgent, timely and necessary” - The List
Photo credit: David Mesiha. Photo source: conspiracy.ca
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Photo source: thetheatretimes.com
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Awards
Winner of the Critics' Choice Innovation Award, Jessie Awards 2015
Winner of Top Ten Touring Shows of the Year, Quebec Critics 2017
Winner of the Edinburgh Fringe First Award 2017
Winner of Top Ten Touring Shows of the Year, Quebec Critics 2017
Winner of the Edinburgh Fringe First Award 2017
Script
Tim Carlson, Jeremy Waller, David Mesiha, Kathleen Flaherty, Milton Lim, Aryo Khakpour, Florence Barrett, and Cande Andrade, Foreign Radical, Canadian Theatre Review 175 (Summer 2018): 57-70.
Articles
Jenn Stephenson, “Autobiography in the Audience: Emergent Dramaturgies of Loss in Lost Together and Foreign Radical,” Theatre Research in Canada 43, no. 1 (2022): 81–95.
Jenn Stephenson, “Real Bodies Part 1: The Traumatic Real in Immersive Performances of Political Crisis and Insecurity—Counting Sheep and Foreign Radical,” Insecurity: Perils and Products of Theatres of the Real (U of Toronto P, 2019), 169–209.
Jenn Stephenson, “Real Bodies Part 1: The Traumatic Real in Immersive Performances of Political Crisis and Insecurity—Counting Sheep and Foreign Radical,” Insecurity: Perils and Products of Theatres of the Real (U of Toronto P, 2019), 169–209.