Losing it at The End of The World
Preshow audio
Losing your life? Losing the planet? Losing your virginity?! Which is really the bigger deal here? Losing It at the End of the World comedically highlights the ever-growing disaster our world faces when it comes to climate change and asks “Is life worth living if everything smells like shit?!”
This play demonstrates that every person deserves a chance to experience the full breadth of the human experience, no matter how horny they are. Losing It speaks to the essence of life and all its terror, innocence, and love.
This play was first performed at Upintheair Theater’s rEvolver Festival 2022, in Canada, Vancouver, BC.
This audio is a pre-show description for the partially sighted and blind.
Emily Schoen – Playwright
Bailey Bates – Co-Director
Shea Heatherington – Co-Director
Best of
This video showcases some of the best moments from the various shorts/sketches I produced and performed for BCIT’s Evolution 107.9 YouTube channel.
Waves
Theatre
Pornhub In Practice
Pornhub In Practice is a confessional theatre piece combining sociology and dramatic arts. I created this piece in my 4th year at the University of Lethbridge. I started this project under the notion I may have had an addiction to porn, but soon realized I was not addicted. Porn instead, had greatly affected my sexual identity. This show is full of honest memories and recollections that culminate into my journey with porn and discovering my sexual identity.
The Duchess of Malfi
The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster, is a Shakespearean-like play that tells the story of the Duchess of Malfi entangled between 2 corrupt brothers. One is a clergyman that sins from left to right while the other is the Duke.
Duke Ferdinand constantly hovers over the Duchess in an almost sexual predatorial manner. He seeks to kill any potential lovers the Duchess may have so he can have her to herself…did I mention they are brother and sister!? Creepy right? I played this fanatical role of the Duke in the University of Lethbridge’s production of this chaotic tale
Survival Cycles
Survival Cycles was a devised theatre piece that was created by myself and everyone in it. The concept and direction of the piece was carried out by Tom Debello.
This piece was high-performance diving deep into trauma and the personification of it using intense movement and repetition. I was one of many characters in the production put on by the student-run theatre company: TheatreXtra that resides in the University of Lethbridge.
Weldon Rising
Weldon Rising, by Phyllis Nagy, is a show about a character named Natty Weldon, who is coming to grips with the death of his lover Jimmy. Jimmy was murdered in an alleyway by a homophobic man. Natty was there when it happened, but froze and was unable to help. Natty is haunted by his own regret and grief.
Due to Jimmy’s, death the temperature around the world is slowly rising to the point of it being inhospitable. It is almost as if the world itself had decided this murder is the last draw for humanity. I played the role of Jimmy, who constantly showed up in times of Natty’s grief and attempt to remind him that he needs to accept what happened and let go.
