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Innovative Vancouver Theatre Company puts the "Theatre" back in DRIVE-IN |
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| COMING SOON.... to your festival or event? |
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Radix Theatre wants your help in bringing our performance, Half a Tank, to your community or event!
Half a Tank provides local performers aged 18 and up, an opportunity to perform innovative and original theatre with a professional Vancouver company. |
“…if you think of it as performance art, you might not take the whole family, and kids will love it!” -The Georgia Straight
“Truth be told, with a set-design concept this cool, the company could get away with nothing more than driving in circles and talking trash, but the play has multiple levels.” --The Province |
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| About the Show |
Radix Theatre's Half a Tank is a post-modern hybrid of performance art and drive-in theatre. The show takes place in a large parking lot where audience members who bring their cars park in a circle, creating a performance space. |
The audience tune their car radios to 88.1 FM CKAR, broadcasting on location to commemorate an historic occasion: a 1978 Dodge Diplomat is about to pass it's 500,000 mile mark. Good lookin' carhops serve hotdogs and pop; a posse of clown mechanics performs unwanted maintenance of vehicles; and celebrity driver Cameron Shaft tries to run over remote-controlled vehicles operated by audience volunteers during the "Darwinian Derby". CKAR's Bob Piston hosts a celebration of theatrical pomp and circumstance that slowly transcends from trumped-up media opportunity into chaotic circus of mishaps.
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 Ultimately, the show serves up a reflection on the automotive dream; an interior space where notions of public and private meet, and an opportunity to explore the many faucets of cars, the road, and why we love being driven.
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Watch a short mpeg video-demo of the performance
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| How You Can Make This Event Your Own |
 The show requires 18 to 20 performers, male and female, to support our 3 principal leads. These roles are not merely bit parts, but fully integral to the performance with plenty of stage-time. Local young performers could experience 5 days working on a professional theatre production as part of a unique and inspiring performance!
Half a Tank comes "out of the box" entirely prepared. It requires only the local performers, an empty parking lot, a few local arrangements, and some media coverage. |
Besides obvious thematic ties to "road trip", the Half a Tank show has a low overhead, simplicity, and accessability on its side. |
 What we are offering communities and organizations is the chance to play host to a fun, inventive and socially relevant performance/event geared towards the entire  family. Guaranteed to attract media attention while filling two fun filled evenings, the unique staging of Half a Tank combined with its socially relevant content and the inclusion of local artists is bound to create a night of theatre which the whole town will want to be a part of! |
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The Half a Tank show would be a great addition for festivals, and for communities with cultural initiatives with an interest in creating opportunities for young local performers. Communities like yours!
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About Radix
Based in Vancouver, Radix Theatre has been producing innovative and socially relevant performance events since 1988. Engaged in an ongoing experiment with both form and content, Radix focuses on interdisciplinary pieces that incorporate physical theatre, visual imagery, sound-scape and site-specific locations that experiment with the audience's role within the performance.
Half a Tank was critically acclaimed in Vancouver and Toronto, and received much local and national coverage in many newspapers across the country. Although created in a "performance art" vein, the show was a surprising hit with families, offering entertainment for all ages (the kids had permission to honk the horn all night).
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Please don't hesitate to contact us with any questions. You can reach either of our project managers; Sean Q. Lang at sqlang@telus.net or Kristina Egyed at kristinaegyed@telus.net .
Kristina's phone is 604.240.6611
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| Sean's phone is 604.916.6976 |
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| click here for a slideshow from a previous run of Half a Tank
"Empty Space is where all Theatre Begins"-Peter Brook
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