In Kitt & Jane: An Interactive Survival Guide to the Near-Post-Apocalyptic Future, two grade eight students present to an audience as part of a school assembly. Soon however, the students go off-script, barring the doors and hijacking the presentation in order to deliver an important message: They will be dead in an hour, the apocalypse will occur in five years, and they’re here to train you how to survive.
Kitt & Jane is the stand-alone sequel to Little Orange Man, one of 2011’s Vancouver Fringe Festival smash hits. That year, Little Orange Man won the Playhouse Award, Volunteer’s Choice, and Pick of The Fringe.
[Kitt & Jane; photo by Jam Hamidi]
At the heart of the show is a poignant exploration of the world today’s youth are inheriting, and what they’re prepared to do about it. Kitt & Jane first premiered at the Belfry Theatre’s SPARK Festival in 2012, and was created with the support of the Belfry Incubator Project.
I interviewed Snafu Dance’s Ingrid Hansen ahead of her 2011 performance, smack in the middle of the Kids Market on Granville Island. She’s a creative wiz and I’m sure this new production will deliver an equally impressive, off-the-cuff story to Fringers.
Little Orange Man saw Kitt as a twelve-year-old loner who creates homegrown technology to unlock the hidden messages in our dreams. Kitt & Jane picks up the story two years later, when Kitt teams up with a boy (having the unfortunate nickname ‘Jane’) to train the audience to survive the looming real-world apocalypse.
Curious? You should be! Check out the creative team of Ingrid Hansen, Kathleen Greenfield, and Rod Peter Jr. in this new production.
Kitt & Jane: An Interactive Survival Guide to the Near-Post-Apocalyptic Future
Dates: September 5, 8:45 pm
September 7, 3 pm
September 8, 9:40 pm
September 9, 10 pm
September 10, 5 pm
Venue: The Cultch, 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver
Tickets: $10 weekday/$12 weekend (plus one-time $5 Fringe Festival membership); available online or at the Box Office, 1398 Cartwright Street on Granville Island.
