mar 23 - apr 2 | last 15 seconds

Some friends of PT are coming to town! Alan Sapp and Gary Kirkham were part of Theatre & Company in Kitchener, a sister company to PT that premiered REFUGE OF LIES (Alan played Simon Katzman), as well as Gary Kirkham's QUEEN MILLI OF GALT (with Miriam Brown in the title role). QMoG went on to productions at Chemainus (with Katharine Venour as QM) and, this fall, at Rosebud (Morris Ertman directing). T&Co is no longer with us, but those gentlemen and other original company members launched Lost & Found Theatre, still active today with programming much like Pacific Theatre's. They also work around town - and, apparently, around the country - on projects such as...

The Last 15 Seconds
Mar 23 - Apr 2
tue-sat 8pm + sat/sun 2pm mats | pay-what-you-can wed mar 30 2pm
at the Firehall Arts Centre

As things change they continue to stay the same. Yet we ask the why. This ground-breaking work explores the topic of terrorism starting with the tragic death of Syrian-American filmmaker Mustapha Akkad and his daughter Rima during a series of co-ordinated attacks that hit three prominent hotels in the Jordanian capital Amman in 2005. The work contructs an imagined physical and verbal dialogue between Akkad and Rawad Jassem Monhammad Abed, the suicide bomber and takes a look at the imagined lives and memories of both the victim and his killer at the time of the explosion.

An MT Space Theatre Production

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This project explores the topic of terrorism starting with the tragic death of Syrian-American filmmaker Mustapha Akkad and his daughter Rima during a series of co-ordinated attacks that hit three prominent hotels in the Jordanian capital Amman in 2005. Akkad is the director of two major films both starring Anthony Quinn, The message: the Story of Islam (1976) and Lion of the Desert (1982). Akkad saw these films as a way to bridge the gap between the Western and Islamic world. He was also the producer of the Halloween film series.

The work constructs an imagined physical and verbal dialogue between Mustapha Akkad and Rawad Jassem Mohammad Abed, the suicide bomber who carried the explosion that killed Akkad. The work also looks at the imagined lives and memories of both the victim and his killer at the time of the explosion.