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Computer games, hot chicks, and surfing aimlessly at three in the morning—WAR TAPES is about intimacy and the blurred line that separates the physical from the digital. While contemplating a former romance, Kendra Christopherson learns that life can get pretty lonely in the networked age. The later the night gets, the harder it becomes to outrun your demons.
WAR TAPES
By: Christian Metaxas
Company: Cordwainer Productions
Company origin: Peterborough, Ontario/Toronto, Ontario
Director: Dane Shumak
Cast: Peter Naccarato, Bronte Germain, Margaret Keery, Conner Edmondson, Michael Lake
Warnings: Smoking, Sexual Content, Mature Language
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Show length: 60min.
Genre(s): Contemporary, Theatre
Show Times:
June 30th at 8:15 PM
July 2nd at 5:15 PM
July 4th at 10:45 PM
July 6th at 1:45 PM
July 7th at 11:00 PM
July 8th at 8:00 PM
July 9th at 9:45 PM
Company Bio:
Founded in Peterborough in 2014 by Dane Shumak, and now based in both Toronto and Peterborough, Cordwainer Productions is an emerging production company focused on developing talented, locally sourced artists in communities where there is little to no opportunity for professional artistic production on a large scale. Cordwainer productions seeks to be a venue for the development and experimentation of emerging and young professional artists specifically.
Cordwainer Productions seeks to perform non-traditional pieces of art that challenge audiences with themes that resonate with them, transcending the moment of beginning
and end. The material required to do this is often challenging for the artists involved as well, and the journey from the inception of the project until the completion of the project is, in turn, one that serves to inspire growth and development of the creators as well as the audiences.
Synopsis:
Kendra Christopherson is a loner – a true man of the internet age, he splits his time between sitting in front of his computer, barely making class, sleeping, and watching porn. Recently out of a relationship, Kendra can’t bring himself to really feel anything anymore, and so he’s stuck in a rut, doing the same thing each day – video games, scraping by at school, and banging his TAs to avoid intimacy. His friends are concerned, his mother is nagging, and his grandmother doesn’t get it. *
Taking place over the course of Kendra’s birthday, “War Tapes” is a biting multimedia exploration of what it means to have friendships, find your identity, and struggle to find what the line is between “real” and “virtual,” between “meaningful” and “fake,” and between “intimacy” and “avoidance.”
Photo: Matthew “Poki” McCorkle and nayana Fielkov. ©2016 Kai Hou.
2016-06-15
Fringe: War Tapes