A-Grade
by Andy Garland
DUSTY FLOWER SHOP | VANCOUVER BC
GABRIOLA THEATRE FESTIVAL | GABRIOLA ISLAND BC
PRODUCED BY STAR STAR THEATRE | 2015
What if everything – and everyone – was owned by a corporation?
A Dystopian Romance: Written by award-winning playwright Andy Garland, A-Grade is set in a world in the not-too-distant future, where everything – and everyone – is owned by a corporation or conglomerate. Every human being is an employee or a tradeable commodity, designated into ‘grades’ based on their overall worth to the company. Murray, a ‘B minus’, has applied to the company for a wife. When a fugitive A-Grade arrives in place of the average wife he had been assigned, Murray is forced to make a choice between the company that raised him and the love he never expected.
“A-Grade by Andy Garland is like George Orwell’s 1984 meets The Fifth Element. ”
“I thoroughly enjoyed myself at the Opening of star star theatre’s A-Grade. What a great show! Hilarious and touching performance by Theo Budd!”
Read a preview of the show by Glass City Archives HERE:
“What’s really interesting to me about it is that people can be pretty complacent with what they are born into … two generations down the road, instead of us owning our iPhones, what if Apple owned us?”
Directed by Mika Laulainen
Stage Managed by Jessica Wong
Set Design by Jared Raschke
Lighting Design by Calum Smith
Costume Design by Randi Edmundson
Sound Design by Chris Adams
Performed by Theo Budd, Randi Edmundson, Adele Noronha, and Zac Scott