DRY LAND, BETTER ANGELS and BULL Set for 2016 Edition of TREMORS at Rumble Theatre

Rumble Theatre is thrilled to present the 2016 edition of Tremors, our festival of emerging talent. We've selected three outstanding scripts and assembled a company of emerging artists to direct, design and perform each show.

"Every second year is a Tremors year at Rumble," says Rumble Theatre Artistic Director Stephen Drover. "And with each Tremors we find ourselves inspired by the tidal wave of talent coming from our community of emerging artists. This year is certainly no exception. We are privileged to produce this event and delighted to share with our audiences the work of some truly remarkable young artists."

THE TREMORS 2016 PLAYS:
(Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel, Bull by Mike Bartlett, and Better Angels: A Parable by Andrea Scott)

Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel
Ester is a swimmer trying to stay afloat. Amy is curled up on the locker room floor. Dry Land dives into the lives of two teen girls and explores what happens in one high school locker room after everybody's left. Spiegel's play, her first full-length work, was a finalist for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2015.

For two weeks, these three plays will be performed simultaneously in different rooms of the Italian Cultural Centre. It's like a Cineplex of theatre...with a bar! Tremors runs August 11-20, 2016, with matinees on August 14 & 17.

Better Angels: A Parable by Andrea Scott

Bull by Mike Bartlett
Audiences get ringside seats as three coworkers fight to keep their jobs. Brutal and hard- hitting, Bull is an unflinching look at a toxic corporate culture from which no one escapes unscathed. Mike Bartlett is the Olivier Award-winning playwright of Cock, which Rumble produced in our 2015/16 season.

Rumble Theatre presents Tremors at Il Centro Italian Cultural Centre (3075 Slocan Street, Vancouver, BC), August 11 - 20, 2016. Tremors runs Tues - Sat evenings at 7pm, Wed & Sun matinees at 1pm. There will be two performances of each show per evening: Dry Land @7pm/9:15pm, Better Angels: A Parable @ 7:15pm/9pm, Bull @ 7:30pm/9:30pm. There will only be one performance per show for matinees: Dry Land @ 1pm, Better Angels: A Parable @ 1:15pm, Bull @ 1:30pm. (Approximate run times: Dry Land 90mins, Better Angels: A Parable 60mins, and Bull 60mins.) Tickets: $10 (matinees)/$15, or 2 for $25 (evenings). More information at www.rumble.org.

In 2007, Rumble created the Tremors Festival, originally a two-week run of plays created by emerging companies. In 2014 we devised a new model for Tremors that focussed on providing mentorship to individual emerging artists rather than emerging companies.

This year's professional mentors include Lois Anderson, Sarah Rodgers, and Jovanni Sy.

Rumble thanks The Georgia Straight, our media sponsor, for its generous support of our company and of Tremors.