Revelations

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About the Show

"Survival can be dicey. Maximize your chances with Revelations Consulting."

Based on interviews with real disaster “preppers,” Revelations begins seemingly as an at-home escape room kit (which have become mega-popular over the pandemic). But after starting from home over walkie talkies, it soon grows into a live interactive game and culminates in a profound communal event. The project takes participants on a journey from isolation to connection, zooming out from the individual to a neighbourhood and eventually to the cross section of a city—ultimately redefining the idea of The End of the World.

Apocalypse: noun; from the Greek “ἀποκάλυψις”, meaning “revelation.”

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Photos

Performer Angela Magpantay drops a box and walkie talkie on a porch. She's wearing coveralls, a pink tutu, pink sunglasses on her head, and a gas mask around her neck. She holds a clipboard.
A man speaks into a walkie talkie on a residential street. A small figure across the street watches.
A family engages curiously with the productions game kit and walkie talkie around their living room table.
Several figures are silhouetted in a circle outdoors at night, lit by flashing red and blue lights. There are different coloured balloons and pylons around, and three figures address the crowd from one end of the circle.
Three people lean over a silver spray-painted kiddie pool light in multicolours. They have just thrown several large foam novelty dice inside the pool and are anxiously looking for the result mid-throw.
A group of people exhults in celebration around a kiddie pool full of novelty foam dice. They are in an intriguing underground parking lot with thick stucco ceiling and lit by multicoloured LEDs.
Several figures are silhouetted in a circle outdoors at night, lit by flashing red and blue lights. A large black scoreboard is framed at one end of the circle. There are different coloured balloons and pylons around, and three figures address the crowd.
A group of people walks toward a brightly lit underground parking lot, dramatically framed by a dark structure and foliage.
A man in a hazmat suit stares at the camera, holding a beautifully-wrapped present. Behind him is house, with fireworks and fiery explosions in the distance. By Anahita Dehbonehie, Griffin McInnes & Aidan Morishita-Miki
A theatre poster with dates and crediting overlaid on the image of a man in a hazmat suit stares at the camera, holding a beautifully-wrapped present. Behind him is house, with fireworks and fiery explosions in the distance.
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Production History

Revelations first received a workshop residency with Kingston’s Kick & Push Festival in Summer 2020. It was then selected from a national call by Vancouver’s Upintheair Theatre for their inaugural UpDrafts Commission in 2021, receiving dramaturgical support and a full-scale first production in Vancouver, partnered with Rumble Theatre and The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

Press

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Awards

Apocalyptic ‘good time’: New interactive play aims to put fun back in disaster preparedness

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Shawn Conner

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Vancouver Sun

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Disaster preparedness comes into play in interactive Revelations

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Gail Johnson

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Stir

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Revelations asks us to confront our own approach to the end of the world; it offers us valuable lessons in collective care that can be applied easily to our real world.

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Charlotte Dorey

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Dramaturgies of Participation

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Cast & Creative

  • Created and Directed by Anahita Dehbonehie, Griffin McInnes and Aidan Morishita-Miki
  • Dramaturgy by David Geary
  • Performed by Edwardine Van Wyk, Angela Magpantay and Mack Gordon
  • Produced by Daniel Martin, David Mott and Pippa Mackie
  • Stage Management by Kayleigh Sandomirsky
  • Technical Direction by Taylor Janzen
  • Outreach Consultation by Amy Amantea
  • Lighting Design by Jono Kim
  • Sound Design by MJ Coomber
  • Publicity by Zoe Quinn

Presented by The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Produced by Upintheair Theatre

In Association with Rumble Theatre