Some Light Undergroun’

Written by Lisa Martens

A staged reading presentation by Theatre Incarnate

The 2120’s Oil and Water Wars have swept the prairies. Rayann’s surrogate family lives outside the law in the close quarters of a fortified basement in Winnipeg’s North End. Surviving under the Corporate Government’s radar, these peaceable urban insurgents struggle through the details of love, friendship and discipline without transforming the pressures they face into internal violence.

Featuring:

Rose Condo Jeremy Bowkett Nan Fewchuk Tony Hart Ivan Henwood

Kendra Jones Lisa Martin Ken Rudderham Joan Suzuki Claire Therese

Direction by Brenda McLean & Christopher Sobczak

Special acknowledgements to :
Open Sky Aikikai Aikido Dojo, Eric Bossé, Mia van Leeuwen, Richard Kellie
and the staff and crew at PTE.

Playwright Lisa Martens was a member of a peace team, for four years, in Iraq, Colombia, and Asubpeeschoseewagong (Grassy Narrows First Nation), Lakota country in the U.S.A., and Puerto Rico. She now works in Winnipeg with recent newcomers to Canada. Martens wrote Some Light Undergroun’ to explore themes of peace, violence and community living, and to imagine a possible version of Winnipeg after “peak oil”.

8 PM, Friday May 21st 2010
At the Carol Shields Festival of New Works
Followed by an audience talkback with the playwright

Colin Jackson Studio Theatre
Prairie Theatre Exchange
3rd Floor, Portage Place
393 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg

Admission is free, but support to a “pass the hat” donation is appreciated.
Rush seating is in effect.