Wrecking Ball 12: Are You Dying To Vote?

On Monday May 2nd 2011, Canadians will vote in their third Federal Election in five years after the Harper Government became the first in the history of the Commonwealth to be held in Contempt of Parliament.

On Monday April 25th, one week before this historic trip to the polls, The Wrecking Ball unleashes a reckless coalition of artists and perspectives on to the electoral stage in:

Wrecking Ball 12: Are You Dying To Vote?
Monday April 25/2011
The Theatre Centre
1087 Queen St. W. @ Dovercourt
Box Office: 7pm, Doors: 7:30pm, Show: 8pm
Tickets PWYC @ the door

Beyond the constraints of the CRTC, online voting tools on CBC, considering voting ABC, possibly the type to take off down the a runway on an ATV (we do make the rules here), The Wrecking Ball is back and swinging into the electoral debate without an invitation from the television consortium.

Writers who have voted to participate in Wrecking Ball 12 will be creating works both strategically and from their hearts, but all with the same questions in mind as many Canadians appraising their slate of diminishing and imperfect electoral options:

What is leadership? What is democracy? How are they related?

While North Africa surges towards democratic ideals, North America seems to be passing our Atlantic neighbours like strangers in the bright daylight of heavily engineered apathy.

Three years after the continent buzzed with hope, where do we look to for inspiration? Who do we look up to and why? How can we impact a system engineered to further empower the empowered?

As our democratic institutions face this crucial test, the Wrecking Ball invites audiences and artists to consider these questions one week from the ballot box at:

Wrecking Ball 12: Are you dying to vote?

The Wrecking Ball Toronto crew is:
Ross Manson, Ruth Madoc-Jones, Michael Wheeler, Julie Tepperman, Nina Lee Aquino, Aaron Willis, Ravi Jain, Alan Dilworth, and Weyni Mengesha.

*Proceeds donated to the Actors’ Fund of Canada.

• 2 04 2011 - 07:44