love & rage
Poster design by Tyler Rambie
love & Rage
A new devised creation by the Major Matt Mason Collective
May 7-16, 2026
Calgary, AB
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Love & Rage is a roaming performance that moves the audience through a future world ravaged by the climate crisis. Wreaked with violent sand storms and the proliferation of an aggressive species of mycelium, the outside world appears unlivable. But, overpopulation and class disparity run rampant within protected dome cities, leading some folks to wonder: what if, beyond the sand and ruin, there is something else out there?
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Devised, designed, and performed by Clarke Blair, Geoffrey Simon Brown, Marlo Hepburn, Whittyn Jason, Meredith Johnson, Evan Medd, Nyx Orr, and Mike Tan
Ian Lane – Production Assistant & Technical Support
Kit Benz – Artistic Collaborator and L&R Ensemble Member for Phase I & II
Eve Beauchamp and Liz Janzen – Major Matt Mason Collective's Emerging Producers in Residence
Elena Belyea - Social Media
Photo by Nyx Orr | Image of Mike Tan
Show Schedule
May 6 - 8:00 pm ($15 preview)
May 7 - 8:00 pm (opening!)
May 8 - 8:00 pm
May 9 - 8:00 pm + midnight show
May 12 - 8:00 pm (post show chat with Green Calgary!)
May 13 - 8:00 pm
May 14 - 8:00 pm (described audio and touch tour!)
May 15 - 8:00 pm + midnight show
May 16 - 8:00 pm (closing!)
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Love & Rage was developed with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development Association, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
With generous support from Inside Out Theatre, The GRAND, and Allied
Additional thanks to Col Cseke, Neil Fleming, BonnyBOOM, Common Ground Arts Society, Jamie Dunsdon, Ben Gaudet, Calgary Young Peoples’ Theatre, Thomas Michael Hall, Calgary Fringe, Kathryn Smith, Camille Pavlenko, Verb Theatre, Elena Belyea, Tiny Bear Jaws, Dylan Bauer, One Yellow Rabbit Performance Society, Central Memorial High School, Jake Rose, Jackson Buchanan, David Brown, Sue Winstanley, Braden Griffiths, Ali Deregt, Genevieve Pare, Mac Brock, Even Gilchrist, Caitlind Brown, Ian MacLean, Chantal Lafond, Mark Hopkins, Audrey Lane Cockett, Blake Brooker
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Love & Rage Creation Ensemble
Clarke Blair
Clarke (she/her) is a queer dance and dance-theatre artist, science educator, and developmental biologist based in Toronto. She has worked as a collaborator and performer with Naishi Wang, Major Matt Mason Collective, Living Edge Theatre (Joe Pagnan), Clay and Paper Theatre Company, Frog in Hand (Colleen Snell & Noelle Hamlyn), Social Growl Dance (Riley Sims), Adehleid (Heidi Strauss), and Susannah Haight, among others. Her choreographic work has been presented in Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary and Auckland, New Zealand. Clarke currently practices performance as an MSc candidate in aquatic biology at the University of Iceland.
What is your favourite phenomenon in nature?
Parthenogenesis in lizards - specifically in komodo dragons because they're cool big lizards AND they can reproduce asexually
What is your favourite piece of speculative/science fiction?
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Whittyn Jason
whittyn (they/them/theirs) is a queer, award winning lighting designer/scenographer of south african and ukrainian heritage primarily living and creating in amiskwacîwâskahikan. their work has been featured across turtle island and in europe. they have worked on over 60 productions for theatre, dance, and alternative performance as designer and collaborator. in addition to design, they are also the outgoing festival director for found festival (common ground arts society), and artistic co-leadership of major matt mason theatre collective.
What is your favourite phenomenon in nature?
sun dogs (or, parhelia)
What is your favourite piece of speculative/science fiction?
the x-files
Nyx Orr
Nyx is a queer, non-binary theatre artist based in Mohkinstsis. They love to act, mask, clown, move, and devise their way through stages and found spaces. They are passionate about sustainability and are always working to find ways to make climate conscious art. Additionally, Nyx is a textile artist and is always working to find ways to connect art to theatre. Nyx is a Co-Creator of the r u home yet collective, and has worked in various roles with the Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry, the Major Matt Mason Collective, Wagonstage Children’s Theatre, Theatre Xtra, and Nickel and Dime Student Theatre.
What is your favourite phenomenon in nature?
Aurora borealis
What is your favourite piece of speculative/science fiction?
Station 11 by Emily St. John mandel
Geoffrey Simon Brown
Geoffrey (he/him) is an award-winning Albertan playwright, actor, director, theatre creator, musician, and gardener. He is a founding member of the Major Matt Mason Collective. His plays include Static, Michael Mysterious, The Circle, Night, Progress, Control, Air, Destroy, If I Could Tell You Everything (written alongside the Theatre Junction high school mentorship ensemble), and the most recent adaptation of A Christmas Carol for Theatre Calgary. As an actor he has worked on many of the major stages in Alberta as well as some living rooms, warehouses, and basements. xo to Elena and Bodie. More at geoffreysimonbrown.com
What is your favourite phenomenon in nature?
Not an especially wild one, but I love the process of growing things from seed. It never ceases to amaze me how much can grow from such a tiny little container.
What is your favorite piece of speculative/science fiction?
Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel
Meredith Johnson
Meredith stage manages, directs, mentors and administers all over the province (and the country when able). She loves the Major Matt Mason crew and has worked with them in various forms and ways for years now. She will continue to as long as they let her.
What is your favourite phenomenon in nature?
Phenomenon of Nature: Double Rainbows cause Hello! They are awesome.
What is your favourite piece of speculative/science fiction?
Speculative Fiction: The Handmaid's Tale cause Margaret Atwood is a mad genius.
Mike Tan
Mike is a Treaty 7-based theatre artist/photographer. He has worked as a co-creator in devised theatre creation ensembles with Downstage, Theatre Junction, Ghost River Theatre, and is delighted to be back devising with MMM. Mike has also worked as an acting ensemble member at the Banff Centre Playwrights Lab, workshopping new plays from around the world; as an actor at Lunchbox Theatre, Vertigo Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, and Theatre Calgary; and as a documentary photographer for arts and culture organizations, events, and independent artists. He lives with his loves, Di, Aiden; and their cat babies, Frankie and Prismo.
What is your favourite phenomenon in nature?
Oh my word, a camera obscura!
What is your favourite piece of speculative/science fiction?
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Marlo Hepburn
Marlo Hepburn is a multidisciplinary artist with a mysterious background in many things. Their typical mediums are delight, observation, small gatherings, expansion, divorce, snacks, kissing, and collage. They have been here the whole time. You may have seen them around. It’s okay.
What is your favourite phenomenon in nature?
That we don’t know how anything works!!!!! Like we know a lot about some things but also nothing about others. And we are still always falling in love. Also, ants are so strong?!
What is your favourite piece of speculative/science fiction?
Big fan of the genre in general, but I have returned multiple times to Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel and An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green. Both ask, “what if huge robot” and I love that.
Evan Medd
Evan (he/they) is a freelance dramaturg, theatre-maker, climate activist, and facilitator working across Turtle Island. His practice centers on dramaturgical process design, community-engaged art at the intersection of environmental dialogue, and collaborative new play development and production with the Alberta-based Major Matt Mason Collective, where he serves as part of the leadership team. Evan also spearheads Dreaming Climate Consciousness, a collaborative worldbuilding process that imagines eco-conscious futures through speculative and science fiction, which has been applied in performance creation, environmental education, and community engagement.
What is your favourite phenomenon in nature?
I'm hugely interested in how fungi and algae come together in symbiosis to create lichens. The fungi provides shelter, moisture retention, and minerals, while the algae's photosynthesis provides energy from the sun. This form of collaboration is so powerful that some lichens survive even in the vacuum of space!
What is your favourite piece of speculative/science fiction?
Currently, the Monk and Robot series by Becky Chambers! Instead of dystopia, these stories imagine a world where things kind of work. Society isn’t perfect, but it’s sustainable and compassionate and that alone makes it feel refreshing. There’s such emotional and philosophical weight packed into these cozy little tales!
Support Team
Ian Lane
Production Assistant & Technical Support
Ian is the Technical Coordinator of the Engineered Air Theatre at Werklund Centre, a Calgary born theatre technician and stage manager. They are excited to work on a project in such a novel location. Previous credits include King Lear, All’s Well That Ends Well, (The Shakespeare Company), As You Like It (Theatre Calgary/Shakespeare By the Bow), The Boy’s Own Jedi Handbook (Ground Zero and Hit and Myth Productions). When not working you can often find Ian collecting pretty rocks out of the riverbed.
What is your favourite phenomenon in nature?
I think that Fossilization is an absurd process in nature. To make permanent the ephemeral nature of the remains of life. As if to say “I was here”, and have the world write it in stone.
What is your favorite piece of speculative/science fiction?
The Silt Verses is an absolutely amazing and weird Fantasy/Folk-Horror audio drama podcast that I highly recommend. The show explores a world where hungry Gods are placated by a society powered by ritual offerings, and dives deep into the nature of Sacrifice, Community, Ambition, and Corruption by following the story of two pilgrims on the road in service of their outlawed cult. Please listen to it.
Eve Beauchamp
MMMC Emerging producer in residence
(Calgary)
Eve (they/them/iel) is an award-winning Mohkinstis-based theatre artist, performer, playwright, producer, critic, director, and current MFA student in Drama at the University of Calgary. As a Co-Founder of Levity Theatre (@levity.theatre), their work has been featured on stages across the country (thought mostly in Ottawa and Calgary) and they like to make theatre that is queerly confounding and occasionally funny. Eve is thrilled to be joining MMMC on such a wickedly innovative production and is so grateful to the leadership team for their mentorship!
What is your favourite phenomenon in nature?
Eve’s favorite natural phenomenon is that fire ants collaboratively build water-resistant rafts using their bodies. And fractals!
What is your favourite piece of speculative/science fiction?
Their favourite piece of science fiction is Blade Runner 2049 (2017) because they like robots and sick colour palettes.
Liz Janzen
MMMC Emerging producer in residence
(Edmonton)
Liz (she/her) is a queer, multidisciplinary theatre artist who has devised through this process that Love and Rage is AWESOME. She has been known to laugh really loud, space out, have a lot to say about movies-or anything let’s be so honest-that she hates, and dip her fingers into as many projects as she can. Pies, too. Cherry, specifically. In Edmonton, she helps run Top Bunk Theatre with her two best friends / co-producers. @lizjnzn
What is your favourite phenomenon in nature?
Hey so how does all of this exist :) Big bang or what.
What is your favourite piece of speculative/science fiction?
Black Mirror (ranked, that make the cut): 1. White Christmas 2. The Entire History of You 3. Shut Up and Dance 4. Nosedive 5. Common People. (Non-Black Mirror) Jurassic Park. The Thing. REPO! The Genetic Opera.
Photo by Mike Tan | Image of Clarke Blair