Last Landscape
January 12 – 26, 2025
Recipient of the Ray Ferris Innovation and Sustainability Grant
A Bad New Days production in partnership with Common Boots Theatre
A theatrical meditation on environmental collapse.
A world premiere production from Bad New Days created and directed by Adam Paolozza imagines a future where we find alternative ways to reconnect with and remember nature.
In a sometime somewhere devoid of nature, posthuman ‘workers’ enter an empty space and assemble a series of artificial landscapes out of found objects, striving with their bodies to recreate the natural world from memory. But is it the deep past we see, or some genetically modified future?
Last Landscape blends Bad New Days’ signature brand of physical theatre with an eco-dramaturgical, DIY aesthetic to create a slowly transforming, imagistic meditation on extinction, ecological grief, and interspecies care, where colossal puppets of prehistoric megafauna roam free. On the brink of environmental collapse, the production offers hopeful possibilities for how we all might share this big green miraclemarble.
photography and treatment by Fran Chudnoff
Nada Abusaleh, Nicholas Eddie, Gibum Dante Lim,
Annie Luján, Adam Paolozza, and Kari Pederson // performers
SlowPitchSound //original music and live turntablism
Adam Paolozza // conceived and directed by
Victor Pokinko // creative producer
Ken Mackenzie // set design
André du Toit // lighting design
Roxanne Ignatius // scenic marionette design
Graeme Black Robinson, Clelia Scala, and Puppetmongers Theatre // original puppets
Valerie Calam // costume design
Ian Garrett // eco-dramaturgical consultant
Dylan Tate-Howarth // stage manager
Sunday, January 12 // 7:30PM (preview)
Tuesday, January 14 // 7:30PM (opening night)
Wednesday, January 15 // 7:30PM
Thursday, January 16 // 7:30PM
Friday, January 17 // 7:30PM
Saturday, January 18// 2PM (mask mandatory performance)
Saturday, January 18 // 7:30PM
Sunday, January 19 // 2PM*
Tuesday, January 21 // 7:30PM
Wednesday, January 22 // 7:30PM
Thursday, January 23 // 7:30PM
Friday, January 24 // 7:30PM
Saturday, January 25 // 2PM + 7:30PM
Sunday, January 26 // 2PM
*followed by a talkback conversation: A Conversation About Ecodramaturgy: How Sustainability and Storytelling Intersect
Common Boots Theatre is a Toronto-based theatre company that has been creating welcoming, engaging, and joyful theatrical events and experiences for 40 years. We prioritize the creation of new Canadian work that reflects the place and time in which we live, often in unexpected forms and non-traditional spaces like the outdoors. We value collaboration, care, and comedy in the way we engage both artists and the audiences we serve. Our boutique approach celebrates the intimate and intricate human connections we grow in our communities and into the broader world.
“At the intersection of Sustainability and Storytelling: A Conversation about Eco-Dramaturgy”
Join us after the matinee on Sunday, January 19 for a post-show discussion hosted by Common Boots Theatre and Bad New Days, and moderated by Ian Garrett, Associate Professor of Ecological Design for Performance at York University, and one of Canada’s most thoroughly engaged artist-academics on the subject of sustainability and art.
Featuring panelists:
- Lisa Woynarski, author of Ecodramaturgies: Theatre, Performance and Climate Change;
- Chantal Bilodeau, a playwright and translator whose work focuses on the intersection of science, policy, art, and climate change;
- and Adam Paolozza, creator and director of Last Landscape.
Since 2014, Bad New Days has established a unique presence in Canadian theatre creating visually bold and physically innovative theatrical works that explore the complexity of the human condition through a volatile blend of lightness and gravity, drawing from the theatrical traditions of the past and re-imagining them in a contemporary aesthetic context.
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Preview
January 12 7:30PM
Show Run
January 14 – 26
Tue – Fri 7:30PM
Sat 2PM + 7:30PM
Sun 2PM
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