RESET
March 18-21
7:30 PM
Grotto
Four figures wake up in an isolated room, with no idea how they got there. Each has a clue. A single, fragmented memory, just beyond their grasp. As they cautiously begin to learn from one another, they soon realize the question is not who they are, but what they are. For only one of them is human. And in an AI world, being human can be dangerous.
Reset is an immersive theatre experience, an intimate puzzle where the audience is invited to solve a high-stakes mystery that changes every night. Watch closely. Even the actors don’t know the answer when each performance begins...
Cast:
Braden Griffiths
Jamie Konchak
Julie Orton
Mike Tan @miketanphoto
Bruce Barton: Writer & Director; Vertical City Co-Director @verticalcityperformance
K Hall: Stage Manager
Jason Mehmel: Associate Director & Producer; Sage Theatre Artistic Director
Dylan Lindsay: Associate Producer, Composer & Sound Designer
Emil Agopian: Filmmaker - Stream Designer
ABOUT SAGE THEATRE
Sage Theatre takes you on a bold, intimate, thoughtful journey exploring the human condition. We showcase talented Albertan artists and provide a platform for artistic growth and achievement.
ABOUT VERTICAL CITY
Vertical City Performance is an award-winning interdisciplinary performance hub lead by Co-Directors Bruce Barton and Pil Hansen, consisting of an evolving group of artists exploring the relationship between traditional theatrical performance and guided audience interaction. Drawing on a spectrum of approaches, including installation, spatial engineering, aerial movement, soundscape design, and intermediality, Vertical City works on a wide scale of proportions, from large architectural landscapes through immersive and/or participatory 1-2-1 encounters.
About Bruce Barton
Writer, Director
Vertical City Co-Director
Bruce Barton (https://brucewbarton.com) is a performance maker, research-creation scholar, and Co-Artistic Director (with Pil Hansen) of Vertical City (https://verticalcityperformance.com). He works extensively as a professional director, writer, and dramaturg of theatre and dance. As a playwright, his work has been performed across Canada, received multiple awards and nominations, and been anthologized. As a director and dramaturg, his work has been featured by major presenters and festivals across Canada, including Nuit Blanche, SummerWorks, and Rhubarb (Toronto), Nocturne (Halifax), Micro Performance (Vancouver), and the High Performance Rodeo (Calgary). He is the author or editor/contributor of seven books focusing on dramaturgy and artistic research, including Performance as Research: Methods, Knowledge, Impact (Routledge 2018), Mediating Practice(s): Performance as Research and/in/through Mediation (U of Winchester P, 2013), and At the Intersection Between Art and Research (NSU 2010). Bruce leads classes in performance-creation, interdisciplinary processes, practice-as-research and research methods at the University of Calgary’s School of Creative and Performing Arts. He is also a Board Member of Performance Studies international (PSi), where he is also a co-convenor of the Artistic Research Working Group.