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+ DENY | The Bedbug
Adhere And Deny is presenting an adaptation of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s play THE BEDBUG from November 3 to November 12, in its pocket theatre at 315-70 Albert Street.
Can there ever be a more appropriated named play to be performed in Winnipeg than THE BEDBUG? A big hit with the bedbug set. In its adaptation of Mayakovsky’s satire of 1929 Soviet bureaucracy and the abandonment of the Revolution to NEP men and Five-Year Plans, Adhere And Deny moved THE BEDBUG to somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere in 1990s, when free enterprise was hanging on by a thread against the mighty assault of hyper-capitalism, and the year 2042 when greed was good, hyper capitalism d become the Logos, mandatory product branding, and the victory of clinical hygiene was final.
Our anti-hero, Bobby Markowski, aspired to overcome his working-class roots and become a star in the New Economic Order. HIs guide to the actualization of his dream was Brad Everest, a self-realization guru and social engineer. Markowski’s first major act to achieve his goal was to marry the daughter of a deceased accountant. But Markowski disappears when a fire consumes his wedding hall and everyone in it.
Fifty years later Markowski’s body was found frozen in tact in a block of ice. He was brought back to life by the Institute of Human Resurrection. Into this advanced capitalist culture he brought with him a bedbug. Was there room for a man and a bedbug from the past in this new world?
THE BEDBUG is the last play, or last play for sometime, as the Company redesigns itself into The Circus of Objects.
THE BEDBUG featured Carolyn Gray, Coral Maloney and Mia Van Leeuwen. The production was designed and directed by Grant Guy. Video Montage by jaymez.
Off With Lugubrious Heads!
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