5 Days to World Premiere!

TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
WILL BE THE FIRST WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE
Commissioned by PANAMANIA,
The TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games
Arts and Culture Festival

LIMITED RUN FROM JULY 11-15, 2015

TORONTO, ON: The first theatrical performance after the Opening Ceremony of the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am Games will be the enthusiastically anticipated original production of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. This World Premiere event will have FIVE PERFORMANCES ONLY from Saturday, July 11 to Tuesday, July 14 at 8 p.m. and Wednesday, July 15 at 2:00 p.m. at Ada Slaight Hall, Daniels Spectrum, at 585 Dundas Street East.

Dora Award and Gemini Award-winner RICK MILLER directs and performs in the role of Captain Nemo. Canadian actors MARY-LEE PICKNELL, MARCO POULIN and ANDREW SHAVER co-star in this production. Natives of Québec City, MARY-LEE PICKNELL and MARCO POULIN and have worked extensively with ROBERT LEPAGE, as has Miller.

Co-created by RICK MILLER and CRAIG FRANCIS, and produced by KDOONS and WYRD Productions, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a multi-media extravaganza with interactive digital audience participation.

This is an immersive multi-media theatrical production for all ages that connects the wonder of the Victorian era with today’s scientific and water environmental issues. Board the Nautilus for Jules Verne’s classic tale of undersea adventure with the mysterious Captain Nemo and his passengers… or are they prisoners?

RICK MILLER recently co-starred with Carly Street in Canadian Stage’s Venus in Fur, playing multiple runs to critical and commercial acclaim. MILLER’s solo show BOOM was an audience favourite during the Off-Mirvish season in January 2015 and will be the most presented new show in 2015/16 season across Canada, with 225 performances in most major Canadian theatre centres. He is the creative director of KDOONS Productions, theatrical co-producer of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea.

CRAIG FRANCIS is a cartoonist, voice actor, improv comedian and writer. He is the creative director of Kidoons: Canada's Family Entertainment Network. Kidoons animated stories and web series have millions of viewers worldwide.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea was developed in association with The 20K Collective and was commissioned for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games arts and culture festival, PANAMANIA presented by CIBC. Visit www.20kshow.com for more information. For animated web series, education and community outreach programs connected with the show visit www.kidoons.com.

Box Office Information:

This world premiere theatrical event will have five performances only from Saturday, July 11 to Wednesday, July 15 at Ada Slaight Hall, Daniels Spectrum, at 585 Dundas Street East. All performances are at 8:00 p.m. except for the matinee on Wednesday, July 15 at 2:00 p.m.

General admission ticket prices are $40 and are available for purchase online at
www.20kshow.com.


5 shows only, Get your tickets now!

WATCH: “Sunken Treasures” Jerry Muskrat and Captain Nemo at the Shipwrecks of the Hamilton and Scourge

Jerry Muskrat drifts from Hamilton to Saint-Catharines and finds he is above a Canadian National Historic site. At the bottom of Lake Ontario is the shipwreck sites of the Hamilton and Scourge, two warships from the War of 1812. Jerry learns how the ships sank from the story by the one surviving sailor, Ned Myers. And who reads Jerry this story? It's his old friend... Captain Nemo!

The Nautilus submarine is stationed in Lake Ontario. The City of Hamilton is making 3-D scans of the wrecks with ROV's (Remotely Operated Vehicles). No one is allowed to this special site without a license from the Province of Ontario... and Captain Nemo!

Watch the Video

Loading into the Rotary Centre Kelowna: BOOM hits the BC Interior Thurs. March 5!

We were thrilled with the standing ovations at the Kay Meek Centre in West Vancouver, and now after a sunny drive through super, natural British Columbia we are preparing for the show tomorrow night at the Rotary Centre!

See @Rick Miller in the KDOONS / WYRD Production BOOM on a 4-city BC mini-tour version. For arts lovers in Vernon, Kelowna, and Nelson (and surrounding cities), this is your only chance to see BOOM on the road before it sits down in some of Canada's premiere Performing Arts Centers in the 2015-16 Season.

The show kicked off to a standing ovation at the beautiful Kay Meek Centre in West Van. There's one more show tonight there, and then it's off to the interior! Next shows in the BC tour:

March 5, 2015 @ 7:30 PM
Rotary Centre for the Arts, Kelowna, BC

March 7, 2015 @ 7:30 PM
Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre, Vernon, BC

March 11, 2015 @ 8:00 PM
Capitol Theatre Nelson, Nelson, BC

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Don’t miss the explosive new show that captures the defining moments of the baby-boom generation. One man, 25 years, a 100 of the world’s most influential figures. Journey from WWII to Apollo 11, from Perry Como to Elvis to The Beatles to Janis Joplin… it’s a mind-blowing theatrical experience for all generations.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Behind The Scenes: Richard Feren

Richard Feren : Sound Design

Richard has been creating music and sound scores for Canadian theatre, dance and film since 1992. He also composes his own music and his first album, Rapture, was released on CD in 1997 under the name Crimescene, followed by The Mill, released in 2009. In 1998, he released Descent of Ishtar, a suite of middle-eastern-influenced music, commissioned by the Arabesque Dance Company for a stunningly beautiful production that envisioned the Dance of the Seven Veils as a colourful kabbalistic journey for an ensemble of belly dancers.
Richard’s selected sound designs and compositions can be heard in You Can’t Take It With You, Royal Comedians, Endgame, Oleanna, Fronteras Americanas, A Month in the Country, White Biting Dog; Antigone, Raisin In The Sun, The Real Inspector Hound, Black Comedy, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Chairs, King Lear, Phèdre, Betrayal, The Guardsman, King Lear, Loot, Mirandolina, Platonov, What the Butler Saw (Soulpepper Theatre); The Mill (parts 1-4) (Theatrefront); My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding (Mirvish Productions); Cul-de-sac, In on It, You Are Here, Monster, Here Lies Henry, The Soldier Dreams andExcerpts From The EMO Journals (da da kamera); Revisited (2B theatre); This Is What Happens Next, Half-Life, Insomnia, The Eco Show (Necessary Angel); Russell Hill, The Good Life, The Designated Mourner and Faust (Tarragon Theatre); Arigato Tokyo, Blasted, Silicone Diaries, Steel Kiss/Gulag, Live With It, Eternal Hydra (Buddies In Bad Times Theatre); THIS,Blue/Orange, Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) and The Soldier Dreams (Canadian Stage Company);Unidentified Human Remains and Dali (Crow’s Theatre); The Satie Project (Dancemakers); Possible Worlds, This Hotel(Theatre Passe Muraille); History of the Village with the Small Huts: Trudeau and the FLQ and The VideoCabaret News(VideoCabaret).
Upcoming sound design credits include Angels in America, Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Soulpepper Theatre Company).

Richard’s feature film work includes Robert Lepage’s Possible Worlds and Daniel MacIvor’s Past Perfect. He has also composed scores for various short films and videos, most recently Miklat by Rita Leistner and Small, Stupid and Insignificant by Valerie Buhagiar. He has also crafted music for several websites, flash animations and industrial videos and wrote a new original score for the classic silent horror film Nosferatu.

Richard has won seven Dora Mavor Moore Awards, received the Pauline McGibbon Award in 1999 and was shortlisted for the 2012 Siminovitch Prize.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Behind The Scenes: Itai Erdal

Itai Erdal : Lighting Designer

Itai has designed over 150 shows for theatre and dance companies in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Tel Aviv, Berlin, London and New York. Some of the companies he worked with include The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Vancouver Playhouse, Actor's Repertory Company, Alberta Theatre Project, Modern Baroque Opera, and The Jerusalem Lab.

Itai has been nominated for seventeen theatre awards:
Winner of the Sam Paine award 2003
Winner of the ADC's Jack King award 2005
Winner of a Dora Mavor Moore award 2007
Winner of Jessie Richardson awards 2009 and 2011.

20K Collective saw "Mission Blue" at the Hot Docs Film Festival!

Last night I accompanied passionate water issues activist and Sci-Fi author Kaz Lefave to the Hot Docs premiere of Mission Blue. Mission Blue is a film about ground-breaking scientist (or should that be water-breaking scientist) Dr. Sylvia Earle. 

Dr. Earle is an inspiration for our own Dr. Aronnax in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Tne Sea!

An aquanaut, marine botanist, submersible designer, and the former head of the NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Dr. Earle is a ground-breaking (water-breaking?) pioneer in ocean exploration.  Dr. Earle's passion is to map the ocean and develop protected areas, just as we do with parks and reserves on land.

Dr.Earle was present with the codirector Robert Nixon and HotDocs programmer Heather Haynes, and answered questions from the audience incredibly well: evidence-based, realistically, but always with hope and making the audience feel our own agency to effect change.

MISSION BLUE SCREENS AGAIN AT HOT DOCS.
Highly recommended.
http://mission-blue.org/mission-blue-film/

You can find out more about Kaz Lefave at:
www.nemecene.com

You can support Mission Blue
www.missionblue.org

 

20K team gearing up for its first invited workshop presentation!

Week 2 of a two-week Toronto workshop for 20K (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea). The incredible team of creators are trying to pull it all together for the 100 or so lucky people who will get a sneak preview of our show, Sat April 26th at 8pm. Led by director Rick Miller and co-creator Craig Francis, the 20K Collective of actors, designers and technicians are building props, sound, video, lighting, set pieces... anything to push the concept and make it fly (well, float, in this case).

Part of our concept is to explore how a stage show can be supported and augmented by online properties that not only support the themes of the play, but actually engage with the audience during the play itself! The 20K Collective is pleased to be working with the team at Logograph to create this online content, and these innovative, immersive digital experiences.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is commissioned by the
TORONTO 2015 Pan Am /
Parapan Am Games
Arts and Cultural festival
PANAMANIA
 


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