End of Greatness

Mainstage Presentation 

Duration: 75 mins

*This is a special in-development sharing of End of Greatness for HOLD ON LET GO. Audience members should be prepared to see the work, or parts of it, in progress, including some gentle experiments with the audience. 

End of Greatness is a new multidisciplinary performance by friends and longtime collaborators Veda Hille and Maiko Yamamoto. The show focuses in on microscopic intricacies such as mosses and mushrooms on the forest floor, and then zooms out to embrace cosmological concepts and gigantic systems, while always remaining centred on the human relationship at the heart of the piece. Through songs and music, dialogue, mythology, art objects, choreography and cake, End of Greatness attempts to ease the audience into acceptance of the current dire elements in our culture and asks them to hold hands and step forward into whatever is coming next.

 

Created and Performed by Veda Hille + Maiko Yamamoto, with members of Veda Hille Sisterhood, Thom Gill and Julia Chien

Landscape/Visual Design by Geoffrey Farmer

Textile Design by Hitoko Okada

Movement by Katarina Skår Lisa

Lighting Design by Jeff Harrison

Theatre Scientist Deb Chachra

Produced by Theatre Replacement and Veda Hille. Developed in collaboration with the National Creation Fund at Canada's National Arts Centre.

Photo Credit: Chelsea Stuyt