Intrepid Theatre

Adams… delivers high-energy, spot-on performance – Joff Schmidt, CBC 2016

tony wrestles a stranger is a surreal family reunion that is like a hot dog eating contest meets an MFA thesis project. Through physical challenges like 15 minutes of burpees or eating a pack of hotdogs, tony explores and interrogates their various axis’ of identity in a performance that is visceral and tender. All crafted so that tony and their dad, who hopefully shows up, can finally have some father-kid moments they have missed out on. This is a very deliberate display of daddy issues.

Accessibility

Sensory Warnings: Sudden loud noises, audience interaction/participation

Content Warnings: Adult themes; themes surrounding consent; mentions, themes, or depictions of violence and sexual violence*; discussion of body/fatphobia; brief potentially disturbing images**

Please indicate any accessibility needs, including wheelchair accessible seating or if you require seating with no stairs, in the provided field. We will do our best to assign seating that works for you and get in touch if we have any questions.

*Sexual violence is abstractly expressed through a werewolf metaphor

**A dog eating its own excrement

Credits

Tony Adams: Creator / Performer / Producer

Cory Thibert: Director / Creative Contributor / Stage Manager

Nicole Malcolm: Dramaturge / Lighting Designer

Dave Morris: Directorial Consultant

Geoff Malcolm: Fight Director

Funders/sponsors: Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, Belfry Theatre Incubator Program

About the Artists

Tony Adams (they/them, he/him) Tony Adams is a theatre creator and performer. They are the Co-Artistic Director of May Can Theatre, with whom they created over 15 original pieces. Notable shows include Happiness™ (rEvolver Festival, Wildside Festival, Tactics Series), and Wolves > Boys (CBC top ten shows of 2014) and It’s About Our Goldfish (subDevision, Magnetic North Theatre Festival 2013). May Can Theatre has received 7 Prix Rideau Award nominations for their work. Tony has received awards for Outstanding Duo, and Outstanding Ensemble form the Ottawa Fringe Festival, and was nominated as an Emerging Artist in 2013 form the Prix Rideau Awards.

Cory Thibert: Originally from Ottawa ON, Cory Thibert is an award-winning actor, writer, filmmaker and storyteller who now lives in Victoria, BC. Cory is the co-artistic director of multi-award winning theatre company’s May Can Theatre (Wolves > Boys, Sounds from the Turtle Shell, Happiness™) and O Albatross (AWKWARD HUG, in several times). His work has been produced in festivals across Canada such as WILDSIDE Festival (Montreal QC), Undercurrents Festival, (Ottawa, ON), SubDevision as part of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival (Ottawa, ON), rEvolver Festival (Vancouver BC), and UNO Festival – (Victoria, BC). He is the director of the feature length documentary On The Fringe and is currently in post production for his second feature film Mildlife.

Nicole Malcolm An interdisciplinary artist/administrator, Nicole Malcolm worked across Canada in stage management, technical direction, and lighting design for theatre, dance, and opera since receiving her BFA in Stage Management & Technical Theatre in 2007 (including Banff Centre, Curtain Razors, Globe Theatre, Persephone Theatre, Hectik Theatre, New Dance Horizons, Souris Valley Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Paper Street Theatre, Ballet Victoria, Intrepid Theatre, Pacific Opera Victoria, and with many ad hock events and organizations). Currently she is a performer/facilitator with Paper Street Theatre (ongoing since 2010), lighting designer for Isaiah Bell & Sean Guist’s solo opera The Book of My Shames (ongoing since 2020 including with Pacific Opera Victoria/Intrepid Theatre, Opera Kelowna, City Opera Vancouver, Regina Symphony Orchestra) and Impulse Theatre’s the soft spaces (ongoing since 2023 including Intrepid Theatre’s Uno Fest) and Joy Project (since 2023), as well as collaborating as dramaturge on two new works in development with storytellers

Dave Morris (52 Stories, in development since 2021, including Intrepid Theatre’s UNO Festival, 2022) and Tony Adams (tony wrestles a stranger, in development since 2023, including a residency at The Belfry Theatre in spring 2023). Dave Morris Dave Morris is a speaker, teacher, and storyteller, but mostly he’s an improviser. He’s been teaching, producing and performing improvisation around Canada and the world for over 20 years. He is the artistic director of the award-winning Paper Street Theatre co. in Victoria B.C., was a long-time volunteer and regional director for the Canadian Improv Games, and performs his one-man improvised storytelling shows to high acclaim. When Dave’s not on stage, he can be found teaching the skills of improvisation to university professors, radio hosts, business owners, or even students at the prestigious MIT. His TEDx talk The Way of Improvisation has more than 400,000 views on YouTube and is used in schools around the world to introduce students to the value of improvisation. He has performed and taught at festivals around the world, including Seattle, Chicago, London, Berlin, Romania, Amsterdam, and many more across Canada. His life’s work is teaching people how to play.

Geoff Malcolm – TBC

Pay-What-You-Ten Tickets: 10% of tickets are available for $10, in an effort to make theatre more accessible to equity-seeking groups, newcomers, artists & arts workers, and anyone for whom cost is a barrier. We believe the arts have something to offer everyone and we want to reduce financial barriers to our programming. No registration, forms to fill out, or questions asked. Just select the PWY10 ticket when booking online.

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