She is the one who sold the idea of “The Extinction Therapist” to Theatre Aquarius as a world premiere because she read and adored the script by the aforementioned Clem Martini, celebrated Calgary playwright. She has directed more than 25 world premieres and written four original works. The woolly mammoth, played by Rebecca Northan, is not insecure, but she’s very randy, insatiably so, yet frustrated because you don’t meet a lot of woolly mammoths anymore, says Brubaker, the director, who is in Hamilton from Calgary for the show. Let’s just say, Stanton is not exactly wearing a Barney costume.īut the character is nonetheless a T-Rex, an insecure one, strangely given that T-Rex was an apex predator, but extinction looms and it’s that kind of play. “It’s like what a colleague called ‘stretched reality,’” says director Christine Brubaker, of the strange, part-fantastical, part-very-real world that the play inhabits. Dennis Marshall, who has issues of his own. The aforementioned characters in this play include a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a woolly mammoth, a short-eared shrew, smallpox virus and a human minister of the environment, all being counselled through their shock and grief by an “extinction therapist,” Dr. So it’s promising, despite the subject matter which, well, isn’t. People who saw the dress rehearsal recently were gasping for breath through their laughter, I’m told. What could be the good news after that? Well, they’re the stars of “The Extinction Therapist,” which will enjoy its world premiere in Hamilton on Jan.

The bad news is they’re going to die (not necessarily during the action of the play) and, worse, they’re the very last of their kind, as in extinction. And he is hell-bent on revenge.It’s a bad news/more bad news/good news situation for the characters you’ll meet in Clem Martini’s new play at Theatre Aquarius. A messianic opponent, risen from the dead, is gathering The Collection. It isn't long before Kyp picks up a ragtag band of companions - plague survivors, outcasts, orphans - united by their desire to follow him, even into the human colonies, even into fire. He will keep flying east because he feels he must.

Humans have taken Kym - he doesn't know where, but he will keep searching because he made a promise. His Family is scattered: the flock decimated by plague, the Chooser dead - murdered by one of their own.

A Revolta by Clem Martini