Le Wrecking Ball: Momento Mori

A Political Cabaret for Remembrance Day

Montreal – Remembrance Day: the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. We pause for a moment at the eleventh hour to remember the men and women who served and continue to serve our country during times of war, in the name of peace. Perhaps we even contemplate our own mortality…

Memento Mori: Remember that you will die.
But who wants to face death? Well, artists do! Facing ambiguity and controversy straight on is what artists do best. Can Remembrance Day be redefined? With arts funding facing its own eleventh hour, Le Wrecking Ball: Momento Mori asks the question: What are we really fighting for?

Now in its second year, Le Wrecking Ball continues to bring new political theatre to the stage. Inspired by a desire for a political dialogue in our theatres and surrounding Remembrance Day,
Montreal-based artists, playwrights and musicians have created original short plays, monologues, songs and personal stories to be showcased in a fabulous and thought-provoking evening of cabaret
and political performance:

Le Wrecking Ball: Momento Mori
One night only: Sunday, 8 November 2009
Doors open at 7 pm. Performance starts at 8 pm.
La Sala Rossa, 4848 Boulevard St Laurent
Ticket: $10; Available at Cheap Thrills, Casa del Popolo, and at the door.

All proceeds will go to War Child Canada: a Canadian charity dedicated to providing urgently needed humanitarian assistance to war-affected children around the world.

Le Wrecking Ball: Momento Mori features an amazing line up of artists and playwrights, including: Yvan Bienvenue, Nick Carpenter, Jean-Francois Daignault, David Fennario, Alexandria Haber, Amanda Kellock, Ladies Luncheon, Danette MacKay, Out of the Mouths of Babes Choir, Harry Standjofski, Simon Sachs, and Uncalled For.
Read biographies here

The Wrecking Ball
Founded in 2004 to address a nagging imbalance: too much theatre in our politics, not enough politics in our theatre. For a Wrecking Ball event, each writer has only a few days to write a short play. The plays are given short rehearsals in advance of staged readings. Add music, a hundred or so people hungry for meaningful theatre, and, voilà, you have a Wrecking Ball!

Contact: Koby Rogers Hall

Website: www.mmcabaret.wordpress.com

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