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Draining The Swamp: A Musical Tweet

Draining the Swamp:A Musical Tweet is a new production - another musical theatrical vortex from Curious Creations Theatre.

Vancouver’s Curious Creations Theatre embraces the idea of making social commentary by repurposing images and bits of dialogue from plays, public lectures, interviews, video, and social media, giving it a new, “unique” narrative form.

Curious Creations Theatre conflates fiction with aspects of real people and situations to form characters and plot. Don’t expect a lecture. Do expect fun, thought and maybe a prophecy or two.

Draining the Swamp:A Musical Tweet is from the same creative team as last year’s hit Waiting For Garbo, which wowed audiences at both the Edinburgh Fringe and Vancouver Fringe Festival. That show explored our devastating addiction to plastic consumerism as evidenced by the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a gyre of floating plastic the size of Texas.

Waiting For Garbo won the Stone Soup award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the world’s largest arts festival.

Draining the Swamp:A Musical Tweet is written and directed by Dawn Moore and Desmond Price with music created and directed by Kevin Michael Cripps.

All three creative directors of Draining the Swamp:A Musical Tweet met and worked together as part of the faculty at Capilano University.

Draining the Swamp:A Musical Tweet is inspired by a short play, The Exception and the Rule, by Bertolt Brecht written around 1929/30. The play is an investigation of class differences between rich and poor, with the poor 'losing out'. Brecht wanted to protest against established rule, in which the working class is allegedly exploited, and the justice system is biased in favour of the rich. His play, in turn was based on a Chinese play from the Yuan Dynasty era (1271-1286), He han shan:The Confronted Undershirt.

Draining the Swamp:A Musical Tweet is a cautionary tale. “Pay attention.” Look out for the real swamp creatures. If you drain the swamp “what matters is what’s left behind.”