5 EASY STEPS (TO THE END OF THE WORLD)
2010
“It is the night of the end of the world, and three friends isolate themselves in the cluttered basement of a pawnshop. Determined to go out with a bang, they conjure an evening that is both a dance party and a painful meditation on the past, future and the ever-elusive present.”
‘This is how we celebrate. This is what happened. This is what we did when the world was ending.’
Five Easy Steps (to the end of the world) opened at the Chapter Centre for the Arts in Cardiff, Wales and has subsequently been performed in Halifax and in Ottawa at the 2011 Magnetic North Theatre Festival.Five Easy Steps (to the end of the world) was developed as an expansion of a one-act precursor titled Very Secret Ceremony. The one-act version was presented at the 2009 Cooking Fire Theatre Festival in Toronto and at the 2009 Queer Acts Theatre Festival in Halifax.
Performance Text by the Company
Directed by Alex McLean and Anne Marie Kerr
Dramaturgy and Devising Collaboration: Bruce Barton
Set and Lighting Design by Louisa Adams
Technology Design by Brian Riley
Performed multiple locations: Halifax, Toronto, Ottawa (Magnetic North Festival), Cardiff (Wales)
Sample Review: http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/5-easy-steps-to-the-end-of-the-world/Content?oid=1978611
Awards: 3 Robert Merritt Awards (Nova Scotia): Production, Performer (Sue Leblanc-Crawford) and Lighting Design (Louisa Adams)