An experimental theatre festival with site-specific works

When: July 19 — August 12
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Tags: #sitespecific, #installationart, #interactive, #festival

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The Kick & Push Festival is an annual innovative performance festival that takes place in Kingston, Ontario. The Kick & Push aims to push the traditional concept of what theatre is, or could be. To date, audiences have experienced programming in graveyards, alleyways, carriageways, city parks, market squares, fire escapes, commercial properties as well as the bedroom of a studio apartment.

Featuring site-specific works such as:

Beta’s Baby: Beta’s Baby (as in, betamax’s successor) is part performance art installation, part theatre performance and part retail “shop.” Greeted by the smell of popcorn, community members can experience Beta’s Baby through varying levels of interaction, perusing thousands of movies in a working VHS rental store and participating in a series of immersive encounters weaving personal, immediate stories into an escape room/scavenger hunt experience.

The Flick: In a independent movie theater, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35 millimeter film projectors in the state.Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen. With keen insight…The Flick is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.

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