Dedicated to the Revolutions
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A performance about the seven scientific revolutions someone said changed the world.
And their effects on our lives.
Gutenberg | Copernican | Newtonian | Industrial | Darwinian | Nuclear | Information
With whiteboards, unrehearsed questions and answers, songs, and demonstrations,
Small Wooden Shoe demonstrates the difficulty of demonstrating the effects of progress on our lives.
Created by:
Frank Cox-O’Connell, Chad Dembski,Ame Henderson, Erika Hennebury, Aimée Dawn Robinson, Trevor Schwellnus, Erin Shields, Evan Webber, Jacob Zimmer
Six performers, not in any way experts in science and not apologizing for that, attempt to understand and question our notions of progress and knowledge and share that with an audience using things they found around the house.
Some of the most remarkable of Toronto’s new generation of theatre and dance artists collaborate with Artistic Director Jacob Zimmer and Artistic Producer Erika Hennebury. Conceived by Zimmer and directed in collaboration with Ame Henderson (Public Recordings) Dedicated to the Revolutions is created with Dora and Harold winning designer Trevor Schwellnus (Aluna) and performers Frank Cox-O’Connell (One Reed Theatre, Boy Who Say No), Aimée Dawn Robinson (Up Darling), Chad Dembski (surprise performance), Erin Shields(Groundwater), Evan Webber (One Reed Theatre).
Intimate, fun, vulnerable and smart, Small Wooden Shoe engages with the world in an honest, informal way while maintaining the need to step up and entertain. Absurd and delightful with a critical eye and a casual formalism, Small Wooden Shoe tries to help – and believes live performance might just be the best way.
Here’s what some other people said about the show:
And if you saw it, we’d love to hear from you.
“Instead of offering a realistic overview of scientific progress, Dedicated to the Revolutions is the creative interpretation of how change occurs.” – Walrus Blog
“Charmingly insistent on the right of non-experts and artists to grapple with what science means for how we understand progress, the world around us, and how we understand ourselves.” – Nora Young on CBC’s Spark Blog
“the point of the show isn’t so much to give the audience a useful lesson about Copernicus or Darwin, but to explore how normal people relate to science on a daily basis. Also, it’s very funny.” – Torontoist
“[Dedicated to the Revolutions] isn’t amenable to the orthodox rules.” – The National Post
“thought-provoking and aesthetically interesting, but most importantly, [...] a sense of fun.” – The Globe and Mail Preview
“Dedicated To The Revolutions is the kind of fun show that’ll appeal to those who don’t usually go to the theatre. While it’s not a conventional, well-made play, it offers thoughtful, well-made entertainment.” – NOW Weekly Review
“I’ve rarely seen productions as good-humoured, as teasingly intriguing, as these.” – NOW Weekly Preview
“It’s an effort to think through paradigm shifts and how they affect our lives, an attempt to make the ghost of C.P. Snow just a little happier, and also a shot at having some serious-minded but light-hearted fun.” — Carl Wilson on Zoilus
“Six of Toronto’s most exciting theatre artists mix live demonstration, ukulele singalongs and a Staples catalogue worth of whiteboards” – EYE Magazine Preview
Interviews: “Art and science (and many other fields) share such basic values, and yet mostly they are separated.” – Jacob Zimmer on MaRS Blog
“I think this work in particular is an attempt to get past some of my issues with the hard lines and to generate proposals and engagement instead of only critique and pulling apart.” — JZ in Time and Space
“I should leave my computer more often, since it’s turned into a giant procrastination machine.” — JZ under One Big Umbrella
“It feels more like hosting a dinner party than performing” — Frank Cox-O’Connell in Torontoist
“We’re talking back to the list, and asking questions, and thinking about how that story makes our lives what they are.” — Evan Webber on Theatre is Territory
Produced by Small Wooden Shoe with assistance of One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo, Calgary’s International Festival of the Arts
And in association with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.
Dedicated to the Revolutions has been developed since 2006 with the additional collaboration of: Daniel Arcé,Brendan Gall, Misha Glouberman, Harbourfront Centre, Dustin Harvey, Brendan Healy, Sasha Kovacs, Tim Maly, Laura Nanni, Evalyn Parry, Kilby Smith-McGregor, Theatre Passe Muraille and Jacob Wren.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of:
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