Secret City - Kamloops

Commissioned by Western Canada Theatre for their 2017-2018 season.
This edition is expected to take 90 minutes. Recommend age: 14+

Secret City: Kamloops takes place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc First Nations.

Secret City - Kamloops.jpg — Transform your ordinary
into someone else’s extraordinary.

Grab your smart phone and some headphones and explore downtown Kamloops while listening to original PodPlays based on true events that took place there. It will change the way you see the pedestrian world around you in a most unexpected way.

For audiences who are Deaf or hard-of-hearing, an audio transcript for Secret City: Kamloops can be found here.

Listening Location:Kamloops Public Library Statue465 Victoria Street — Listening Location:
Kamloops Public Library Statue
465 Victoria Street

1. THE GRIND

Written and directed by Andrew G. Cooper
Performed by Wyatt Purcha and Allandra Barton
Sound Engineering and design by Brooke Ballam
Special thanks: Rebekah Nicholson, Taylor James McCallum

Listening Location:Paramount Theatre503 Victoria Street — Listening Location:
Paramount Theatre
503 Victoria Street

2. SUMMER OF '77

Written and performed by Devon More Music
Based on a memory provided by Michelle Jakob
devonmoremusic.com

Listening Location:The Rex417 Seymour Street — Listening Location:
The Rex
417 Seymour Street

3. HYPNOTIST OR NOT

Written and performed by Cayman Duncan
Additional voices provided by: Stephen Sawka, Terri Runnalls, Derek Rein, Harmony Maher, Skylar Nakazawa, Dušan Magdolen, Irene Runnalls, and Paige Cross.
Dedicated to Jess.

Listening Location:Apartment Building35 Seymour Street West — Listening Location:
Apartment Building
35 Seymour Street West

4. Trouble Child

Written and performed by Alicia Ashcroft
Sound engineering and design by Brooke Ballam
As always, to the subject of this story— Monica Weys. “I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart”.

Listening Location:Traffic Lights1st and Seymour ~ northwest corner — Listening Location:
Traffic Lights
1st and Seymour ~ northwest corner

5. STANDING ON THE CORNER OF INDECISION AND I LOVE YOU

Created by Laura Michel-Evans
Recorded by Peter Evans and Laura Michel-Evans

Listening Location:Maurya's Fine Indian Cuisine165 Victoria Street — Listening Location:
Maurya's Fine Indian Cuisine
165 Victoria Street

6. SAFE DEEP SPACE

Created by Matt Macintosh
Based on memories provided by Lori Marchand

Lori Marchand is the daughter of Len Marchand, the first Status Indian to serve as a Member of Parliament. Safe Deep Space uses sound to capture Lori’s memories of Peter Wing and his restaurant, China Village, through experiences with her father. The audio alternates between dinner table chat and campfire storytelling to speak to China Village as a place where two marginalized communities—the Chinese and Indigenous people of Kamloops—could meet to share stories, ideas and friendship in a welcoming, nonjudgmental space.It also suggests multiple frames of reference for two conversational streams. These frames fold in on one another in ways that echo the cataloging of memory and tradition and the rhizomatic arrangement of information on the internet. Both are interrupted. Both have competing desires; distinctiveness and sameness, zoomed–in and zoomed out perspectives on people and place.