Drained

Imagine you arrive home from a tough day at work. You're tired, you feel weighed down by responsibility -- you are DRAINED. The only thing you want to do is take a nice, relaxing bath. You head for the tub... you turn on the faucet.. but something is terribly wrong. THERE'S NO WATER.

Drained, is a story of three friends who become addicted to their stress reliever — their bathtub. It is a dystopian play about bath addiction. Drained is a comic tragedy about an ineffective detective, an unsuccessful yuppie, a traveller who’s never left home, an obsessive, neurotic ex-lover, and an overzealous environmentalist in an overused bathroom. This comedy of errors combines bathtub fantasies, songs, dance, movement, music, and real time to tell the story of the bizarre events which surround the unintentional disintegration of one man.

Written and performed by Boca del Lupo’s five founding members, Kevin MacDuff, Tamara McCarthy, James Long, Jay Dodge, and Maiko Bae Yamamoto and directed by Sherry J Yoon

Artists

Sherry J. Yoon, Artistic Director of Boca del Lupo, is a theatre creator and director with a passion for creating new performances through collaborative pursuits. With Boca del Lupo, Sherry has co-created more than 35 productions, including: Fall Away Home, an intergenerational site-specific production in the forest of Stanley Park; Photog, a large-scale show that toured across Canada and was created with interviews from prominent conflict photographers; and You Are It, as part of the Silver commissions from the Arts Club Theatre that investigates the complex dynamics between female friendships. During Sherry’s tenure, the company has received numerous awards, including the Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Award, and Jessie Awards for Outstanding Production, Design, Actor, Ensemble, as well as the Critic’s Choice Innovation Award. Her productions have toured festivals and venues across Canada, Europe and Mexico.  She co-created an online exhibition of Expedition, an iterative collaboration between Boca del Lupo and the Performance Corporation, and working on Net Zero, an interactive theatre installation about climate change that involves the audience charging a battery with a stationary bicycle. She is also a freelance director who has worked at the Richmond Gateway Theatre, Bard on the Beach, the Vancouver International Children’s Festival and at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa Canada.

Sherry J Yoon
Director

Jay Dodge

Writer, performer

The Artistic Producer of Boca del Lupo since 2001, Jay Dodge was also part of the founding collective in 1996. During his tenure, the company has won the peer-assessed Alcan Performing Arts Award, and several Jesse Richardson Theatre Awards including seven nominations for the Critic’s Choice Award for Innovation and the Patrick O’Neill Award for best anthology with Plays2Perform@Home. Jay is a passionate set and video designer with Jessie Richardson Awards in both of those categories as well as a published playwright including a contribution to Boca del Lupo’s Red Phone project. His artistry is one of innovation and daring and his one man show, PHOTOG. featured interactive video, stunt rigging and verbatim text, touring to World Stage, Prismatic, Festival Trans Amerique and PuSh. Currently serving on the national board of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres, Jay also has special interest in creative space making including as co-founder of celebrated colocation space PL1422, co-founder of the Granville Island Theatre District, and as project consultant for Video In/Video Out and Left of Main.

Jay Dodge
Writer, performer

Lighting Design Andrea Hughes Sound Design Noah Drew Costume Design Dawn Bassett.

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