Part of SummerWorks Performance Festival

Thursday Aug 13th through Sunday Aug 16th - Show 9pm

Let’s Not Beat Each Other To Death is a genre-defying play/memorial/electro-pop dance party. Inspired in part by the brutal killing of a Halifax queer activist and an attack against an outspoken gay musician, its scope expands outward and becomes a search for explanation, compassion and catharsis on a larger global scale. Part monologue, part concert; the show is a tribute to and celebration of LGBTQ people around the world who have been affected by violence, and asks us to search for the roots of violence within ourselves. As a participatory event that combines dance, theatre, and music, the piece offers audiences the chance to remember, to celebrate, to think and to dance.

Work on the show began during residencies at Toronto’s hub for innovative queer performance, Videofag, and at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig in Ireland. The show had its initial workshop presentation in July 2014 during Halifax’s Queer Acts Theatre Festival and has since been performed at Stages Festival (Halifax) and OUTstages Festival (Victoria).

Always a work in progress, Let’s Not Beat Each Other to Death includes local stories in each iteration. Every new place sees itself reflected in the show, and the show leaves changed by each place it’s been.

Company: The Accidental Mechanics Group
Created and Performed by Stewart Legere; Directed by Christian Barry*; Produced by Karen Gross; Production Management by Louisa Adamson; Projection Design by Nick Bottomley; Costume Design by Leesa Hamilton; Choreography by Jacinte Armstrong and Cory Bowles
*appears with the permission of Canadian Actors' Equity Association