EDINBURGH FRINGE FIRST WINNER 2017
The line between security and tyranny has rarely been so stimulatingly debated. – The Guardian
✯✯✯✯✯ 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
FOREIGN RADICAL invites 30 participants into an intriguing theatrical game that explores security, profiling, freedom of expression, and privacy in the age of cyber-surveillance. Mobile throughout the performance, the participants collaborate, compete, investigate, debate, and spy on each other.
The Foreign Radical set is divided into quadrants 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 Farsi and Arabic. Each performance is unique in that the audience dynamic influences the outcome.
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.
Direction by Jeremy P. Waller & Tim Carlson
Script by Tim Carlson
Performed by Mehdi Darvish and Anjela Magpantay
Sound & Music by David Mesiha
Video by Cande Andrade
Lighting design by Kyla Gardiner
Dramaturgy by Kathleen Flaherty (Playwrights Theatre Centre)
Early dramaturgy by Bruce Barton (Centre for Drama, University of Toronto)
Associate Produced by Jack Paterson
UK Tour Fall Sept. 17 – Oct 13, 2018
September 17-19, 2018: New Theatre Royal Portsmouth – StageHouse (Portsmouth, UK)
September 21-22, 2018: Heads Up Festival (Hull, UK)
September 28-29, 2018: Paint the Town Festival (Medway, UK)
October 8-10, 2018: ArtsDepot (London, UK)
October 12-13, 2018: Strike a Light Festival (Gloucester, UK)