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Slowpoke
The Russian Hall
Vancouver, BC
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Slowpoke
Radix Theatre launches their 25th season with the world premiere of Slowpoke. The powerful work is performed and created by Billy Marchenski and Alison Denham, with direction by James Fagan Tait, and uses theatre, dance, and projections to tell the sometimes harrowing-sometimes humorous story of a journey inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Vancouver theatre and dance artist Billy Marchenski was inspired to create the exploratory work after visiting the Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum in 2010. In the fall of 2011 he and his partner Alison Denham, also a highly acclaimed performing artist, packed their cameras and bags to visit the Exclusion Zone and develop Slowpoke.

Performed in the intimate Russian Hall, the narrative plays out on two levels: the first recounts Billy and Alison's trip to the zone itself. The second meditates on the enormous time scale the incident plays out on and what it means for humanity to possess the power to alter the environment so drastically. The work's title is both a nod to this timeline and a reminder of Canada's connection to nuclear energy as manufacturers of the Slowpoke reactor, built in the 1960's and still in use in parts of Canada today.

Tickets also available at the door.

Location

The Russian Hall (View)
600 Campbell Ave
Vancouver, BC V6A 3K1
Canada
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Arts > Performance

Kid Friendly: No
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

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