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
In a sometime somewhere devoid of nature, clownish ‘workers’ enter an empty space and assemble a series of artificial landscapes, striving to recreate the natural world from memory. But are we seeing the deep past? Or some genetically modified future? The world premiere of Last Landscape employs Bad New Days’ signature brand of physical theatre, offering a playful meditation on extinction, ecological grief and interspecies care, where colossal puppets of prehistoric megafauna roam free. On the brink of environmental collapse, it offers brave new possibilities for how we 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 // perfromers
SlowPitchSound //original music and live turntablism
Adam Paolozza // conceived and directed by
Victor Pokinko // creative producer
Ken Mackenzie // set designer
André du Toit // lighting design
Roxanne Ignatius // scenic marionette designer
Graeme Black Robinson, Clelia Scala, and Puppetmongers Theatre // original puppets
Ian Garrett // eco-dramaturgical consultant.
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
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.
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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