A HUMAN CARGO PRODUCTION
Presented with
SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs & PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
THE RUNNER
By Christopher Morris
Z.A.K.A is an Orthodox Jewish volunteer force in Israel. They collect the remains of Jews killed in accidents. When Jacob, a Z.A.K.A volunteer, makes the split-second decision to treat a young woman, instead of the soldier she may have killed, his world is changed forever.
A powerful thriller from Toronto’s Human Cargo and winner of the 2019 Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Production, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding New Play.
(Show image by Dylan Hewlett. Pictured: Christopher Morris)
DATES:
Jan 24 - 26, 2024
WHERE:
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
RUNNING TIME:
60 mins
SHOWTIMES: Jan 24-26, 2023
Wed, Jan 24 @7:30PM
Thurs, Jan 25 @7:30PM
Fri, Jan 26 @7:30PM
CONTENT ADVISORY:
Strobe lights, thick haze, blackout, and coarse language.
ACCESS:
- Low Vision Friendly
- ASL Interpretation Jan 26
Co-presenters:
CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
Director & Dramaturge
Daniel Brooks
Associate Director
Severn Thompson
Starring
Christopher Morris | Jacob
Set and Costume Designer
Gillian Gallow
Lighting Designer
Bonnie Beecher
Composer and Sound Designer
Alexander MacSween
Production Manager & Associate Lighting Designer
Jeff Pybus
Stage Manager
Arwen MacDonell
Assistant Stage Manager
Taryn Dougall
Human Cargo Artist in Residence
Stephie Mazunya
Producer, Human Cargo
Samantha MacDonald
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
CHRISTOPHER MORRIS
Christopher is an actor, playwright and director and the artistic director of the Toronto-based theatre company Human Cargo. His most recent play tremblements premiered at Montréal’s ESPACE GO in November/2023, a French language collaboration between Human Cargo and Québécois theatre artists. The Runner (premiere: Theatre Passe Muraille, Tour: Socrates Project/Hamilton, Grand Theatre/London, Tarragon Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Magnus Theatre, Thousand Islands Playhouse); Our Beautiful Sons (Blyth Festival); The Road to Paradise (co-playwright with Jonathan Garfinkel – Human Cargo, Crow’s Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times); Night (Human Cargo, premiered at the National Arts Centre, toured nationally and internationally). As an actor, Christopher has with Soulpepper, Necessary Angel, Canadian Stage, The Stratford Festival and the National Arts Centre, to name a few.
Upcoming – Co-creator of Mother: an Annie Pootoogook VR experience, an animated/live-action Film about Inuk artist Annie Pootoogook (a collaboration with Inuk performers and Montréal’s Transversal, Bon Jam Animation, and Mirari), and Production dramaturg on The China Project, a Human Cargo collaboration with Chinese theatre artists.
ABOUT HUMAN CARGO THEATRE
Human Cargo is dedicated to the creation of theatre that explores the extremes of the human condition. It’s our goal to bring new voices to the world stage, offer diverse perspectives of the human condition and celebrate our evolving Canadian identity.
