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A Suicide-Site Guide to the City
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A Suicide-Site Guide to the City is a strongly personal solo show which plays with autobiography to explore life as a performance - where despair, compassion, wit and sensuality are seen as reactions to evil, framed as abuses of the power imbalances inherent in differences in wealth, race, sex and age. Credits Written and performed by Darren O’Donnell A Suicide-Site Guide to the City is produced by Naomi Campbell, directed and dramaturged by Rebecca Picherack, with sound by Nick Murray, lights by JP Robichaud, set by Trevor Schwellnus. Originally co-produced by the PuSh International Performance Festival it was presented at the Firehall Theatre in Vancouver, at The Belfrey by Victoria’s Intrepid Theatre, at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, Scotland and as part of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s mainstage season in March 2005. It was published by Coach House Books in a volume called Social Acupuncture in April 2006. Press "...sheer lucid genius. Darren O'Donnell doesn't take prisoners." "Wow. Darren O'Donnell has created a beautifully written, wonderfully inventive abstract show that challenges some of the basic concepts of theatre. This is an amazing experience. ...His understanding of the boundaries or limitlessness of theatre is dazzling. With no real beginning, middle or end, the stream of consciousness still takes the audience on a journey by challenging the way art conceives the world. It is an awesome piece of work." "Darren is a strange fruit, his show is a (Molotov) cocktail - 1 part anarchy, 2 parts love, 1 part suicidal tendencies and a dash of talking street cars. It's a beautiful performance both controversial and clever. Home video and soundscapes weave us into his kaleidoscopic world where he searches desperately for the link between himself today and his past self and for any beauty in an increasingly inhibited and suffocating world, ultimately looking for a reason to stay alive. He is searching for a heart of gold, I just hope he finds one to match his own." |
