Perhaps in a Hundred Years
Small Wooden Shoe brings back the tender science fiction
that first brought together (now) long time collaborators.
Small Wooden Shoe has been asked to bring Perhaps in a Hundred Years to Montreal and we need your help to get there.
We’re going to Montreal to be part of OFFTA – a great curated program that happens alongside the Festival TransAmériques. It’s an amazing opportunity. There will be tons of artists and presenters there from around the world. It’s a chance to have our work seen by a bunch of people who otherwise we can’t reach which can lead to good things in the future for not only this show but for Small Wooden Shoe and Jacob, Chad and Ame. It will also be a chance for our Montreal friends to see this show that we love and think is pretty special (and others agree – see the reviews below)
While OFFTA provides us with space and an incredible, unique context, they don’t have anything in the way of money for us.
We need $3,000 to cover the time, travel and expenses for us to get ourselves and the show to Montreal and take advantage of this rare chance.
Any amount helps and we’ve got some nice, homemade show appropriate perks to go along with the charitable tax receipt you’ll get.
Read what others said here
Six years after their first collaboration Jacob, Ame and Chad return to the show they love.
In 2005, unbeknownst to almost everyone, theatre and dance artists Ame Henderson, Chad Dembski, Jacob Zimmer spent a summer in Hub 14 making a play. Now, six years and more than a dozen more shows and events together, national and international tours, they return to the show they love.
Perhaps in a Hundred Years is a tender science fiction story about three friends stuck in outer space, waiting for the future to arrive. They tell stories, sing songs, pass notes, and try to answer some questions about communism, candy bars and parties. Dancing, lip syncs and quiet beauty fill the space. Our heroes are surprisingly optimistic, given the conditions outside, armed as they are with cheerful pop songs and over a millennium worth of utopias. Despite an almost overwhelming pessimism for the long term future, which many of us share, Perhaps in a Hundred Years endeavors to keep it upbeat, or at least tenderly, militantly, hopeful.
Perhaps in a Hundred Years mixes space-rock show with confessional, talk show with theatre to create performance for the future from the past (or at least from 2005.)
“Broadcast #1 We are in space. That much is clear. We seem to have forgotten how we got here. Or perhaps we never knew. We don’t know if we are on our way to some distant planet, or on our way home. We don’t know what year it is, or how many have passed. Perhaps a hundred, perhaps more. So we speculate. We consult palm readers and the bottom of vodka bottles. We don’t remember who we were before. I think I may have been a printer. Chad has a hunch he won the Tour de France seven times after a bout with cancer. Ame is still undecided, but suspects she left children behind.”
conceived by: Jacob Zimmer
created and performed by:
Chad Dembski, Ame Henderson and Jacob Zimmer
in collaboration with:
Kilby Smith-McGregor
Production History: 2005:
August: Hub 14 – Toronto October/November: Hub 14 – Toronto; Khyber Centre for the Arts – Halifax, Nova Scotia; Third Space Gallery – Saint John, New Brunswick; Cafe Esperanza – Montreal, Quebec**
*Perhaps in Hundred Years was created in partnership with Candid Stammer Theatre with the support of the Toronto Arts Council.
** With the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Inter-Arts Section.