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
May 13 - 8:00 pm
May 14 - 8:00 pm
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 BonnyBOOM, Common Ground Arts Society, Calgary Young Peoples’ Theatre, Tiny Bear Jaws, Elena Belyea, Jake Rose, David Brown, Sue Winstanley
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
Photo by Mike Tan | Image of Clarke Blair