Be a Man (archive)


Be A Man – A Performance Adventure ...is an intersection of many media.  Meet Tommy, a hitchhiking itinerant musician who arrives in Calgary at the height of the Calgary Stampede. A supercharged drug dealer and a young female Stampede performer lead Tommy to assert his masculinity. It is only in…

My Fair Lady – the punk version


In My Fair Lady - The Punk Version we meet a young dancer named Jody and her mentor Adam. But Adam is not just any mentor: he is the anarchistic new wave/punk proprietor of an alternative art club and the unofficial kingpin of Winnipeg’s underground scene.  In My Fair Lady we see how innocence…

World Premiere!


The Damage is Done September 12 & 13, 2015 8:00 pm - Yukon Arts Centre   The Yukon Arts Centre is the territory's premier venue for performing and visual arts and is increasingly a major presenter in Canada. The 428 seat proscenium theatre boasts outstanding acoustics and top-of-the line technical…

How iRan: Three Plays for iPod (archive)


How iRan: Three Plays for iPod was presented at the Ottawa Public Library in September 2016 as a special off-festival event presented by the Ottawa Fringe Festival. How iRan: Three Plays for iPod uses one of the most ubiquitous pieces of technology available today to tell the story of three different…

The Tenors of the South (archive)


February 2016 saw us back in residence at The Banff Centre working on The Tenor(s) of the South. Ken and Rita were collaborating with Sam Baker (Austin TX), Minton Sparks (Nashville TN) and  Jim White (Athens GA) along with Calgary's Lon Parker. A multimedia exploration of our neighboring country through the eyes of three celebrated American…

The Cultch 2015


The Cultch October 20-24, 2015 Vancouver, BC, Canada The efforts of Productive Obsession in 2014 are mainly focused on our Current Obsession, The Damage Is Done. We have  completed a residency at The Cultch in Vancouver in May and in Banff in June, culminating with a very successful workshop production. We are…

The Damage is Done (archive)


The Damage is Done: A True Story combines theatre, dialogue, essay, video, music and dance into a multi-layered event. Featuring Dr. Gabor Maté onstage with Rita Bozi, the show weaves together the story of three different Gabors, all of whom emigrated from Hungary to Canada and shaped Bozi's life. The audience…

Creation Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts


The Damage is Done - Creation Residency May 28 – June 7, 2014 Margaret Greenham Theatre Our entire team gathered for a 10-day creation residency at the prestigious and inspiring Banff Centre for the Arts. We began with choreographer Helen Husak in order to develop two dance sequences and a physical vocabulary.…