HIGH RISE

19 stories in 19 stories…

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Thank you....

to all our 2009 workshop participants and to those who came out to our HIGH RISE workshop excerpt!

Stay Tuned....

for details about our new 2010 workshops as well as our workshop production of HIGH RISE the show!

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Promo Video Featuring Dwayne Morgan

HIGH RISE is a 90-minute multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural theatrical experience that borrows from theatre, musicals, hip-hop, and real life stories about growing up in a 19 story high rise in Toronto. Set in one of Canada’s most culturally diverse, poor, and violent neighborhoods; the show explores what happens when you pack hundreds of young people from the four corners of the earth into a single apartment building. Based on real stories, and performed by top urban artists, HIGH RISE reveals the clash of cultures, chaos, and energy of life in a low-income neighbhourhood. Told through theatre, spoken word, hip hop music, Bhangra and Caribbean dance, the piece features 19 characters that highlight neighbourhood tensions: one ethnicity versus another, the old versus the young, the community versus the police, the Bloods versus the Crips, and desperation versus hope.