TBD
Beginning with your ‘death,’ this immersive, twenty-one day, performance infiltrates your life to offer a mediation on the nature of what meaning our life carries. Audience-participants attend special events solo and in groups, are met by strangers in their everyday lives, receive packages and text messages.
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Production Credits
Written and Created by: The Radix Collective (Jesse Garlick, Andreas Kahre, Andrew Laurenson, Billy Marchenski, Stefan Smulovitz, Emelia Symington Fedy, Paul Ternes and Robyn Volk) Cast (in alphabetical order): Kiki Al Rahmani, Daniel Borzillo, Evelyn Chew, Nneka Croal, Jesse Garlick, Tara Harris, Andrew Laurenson, Chelsea MacDonald, Billy Marchenski, Sean Marshall Jr., Dawn Petten, Stefan Smulovitz, Brahm Taylor, Jamie Taylor, Paul Ternes, Conor Wylie Production History
Radix Theatre: Vancouver, BC 25 October - 14 November 2015.
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Photo source: The Radix Collective
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Read more in PLAY: Dramaturgies of Participation: SNEAKY NINJAS, CONSENT, ACTING, US
TBD Demo from radix theatre on Vimeo.
Press
"A unique performance event inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the compelling, and at times witty, TBD will guide 100 adventurous audience members through a metaphorical process of death and rebirth. Every day for three weeks, Radix will connect with participants through unconventional and unexpected ways, transporting them on a deeply personal and moving journey as they imagine their own passage to re-incarnation." - Broadway World
"You can’t review a 21-day theatre experience the day after it ends. What I felt at the beginning changed so dramatically over the course of the experience that it has taken me five days to figure out how I feel about it now that it’s over." - Kelsey Klassen, Vancouver is Awesome
"Every day for 21 days, folks from the theatre company have some kind of contact with audience members. In the first podcast they sent, a voice guided me through my death from a brain aneurism. It was surprisingly peaceful. And there have been even cooler parts that I want to tell you about. About two weeks ago, I was parking my car in my underground garage. The garage door was closing when somebody yelled, “Hey!”. When I looked, I saw a guy in the alley. He popped down into push-up position and looked like he was going to scuttle underneath the door. I thought, “Who is fucking with me?" - Colin Thomas
"Audience members are guided over the course of three weeks through their own metaphorical process of death and rebirth, all the while interacting with cast members throughout their daily routine. Guided by a smartphone location app installed to each participant’s phone, actors engage with the audience through text messages, audio and video podcast, direct mail, and surprise encounters in the home.” " - Andrea Rabinovitch, Vancouver Observer
"I really like this dying thing." - Colin Thomas
"You can’t review a 21-day theatre experience the day after it ends. What I felt at the beginning changed so dramatically over the course of the experience that it has taken me five days to figure out how I feel about it now that it’s over." - Kelsey Klassen, Vancouver is Awesome
"Every day for 21 days, folks from the theatre company have some kind of contact with audience members. In the first podcast they sent, a voice guided me through my death from a brain aneurism. It was surprisingly peaceful. And there have been even cooler parts that I want to tell you about. About two weeks ago, I was parking my car in my underground garage. The garage door was closing when somebody yelled, “Hey!”. When I looked, I saw a guy in the alley. He popped down into push-up position and looked like he was going to scuttle underneath the door. I thought, “Who is fucking with me?" - Colin Thomas
"Audience members are guided over the course of three weeks through their own metaphorical process of death and rebirth, all the while interacting with cast members throughout their daily routine. Guided by a smartphone location app installed to each participant’s phone, actors engage with the audience through text messages, audio and video podcast, direct mail, and surprise encounters in the home.” " - Andrea Rabinovitch, Vancouver Observer
"I really like this dying thing." - Colin Thomas
Articles
The Radix Collective, TBD, Canadian Theatre Review 197 (Winter 2024): 94-103.
Photo credit: Tom Gould. Photo source: Radix Theatre.
Photo source: Radix Theatre.
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Graphic design: Andreas Kahre. Photo source: Radix Theatre.
Photo credit: Andrew Laurenson. Photo source: Raxis Theatre.
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