JUNE 8

FAMILY STAGE MUSICAL THEATRE

BOTTOM DWELLERS: A DEEP SEA MUSICAL

THE UNNATURAL DISASTER THEATRE CO.

Bottom Dwellers: A Deep Sea Musical is an oceanic odyssey for all ages about a 400 year old Greenland Shark, ocean history, and how climate change is affecting the Atlantic from the top to the very bottom.

As best friends Hagfish, Urchin, and Crab celebrate a feast around a fresh whale fall, they encounter an ancient shark with a dire warning about the ways in which the ocean has been changing. With colourful projections, original music, and an infusion of ocean facts Bottom Dwellers takes audiences on an unforgettable adventure where the deep sea is brought to the surface -- live on stage!

Saturday, June 8 @ 12:30pm

LOCATION: Alderney Landing Theatre

RUNTIME: 45 minutes

AUDIENCE NOTE: All ages

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THE UNNATURAL DISASTER THEATRE CO.

Nova Scotia / Mi'kma'ki

The Unnatural Disaster Theatre Co. is an eclectic collective of artists with a passion for music, puppetry, and telling stories about the natural world through their environmentally sustainable practice.

The collective was forged in the Spring of 2019 by Artistic Director Logan Robins, as a way to begin work on their first production - “The Encounters of an Adventurous Snail”.

As of June 2024, UDTCo. has brought 16 productions to life including original pieces, world premieres of existing plays, immersive and site specific experiences, and more!

Most recently they produced "Deeper" by Robyn Vivian at OutFest 2024, "Hippoposthumous" by Logan Robins at Calgary's High Performance Rodeo, and "Primal" as a part of the 2024 Theatre NS Drama Fest.

Coming up next UDTCo. will be premiering "Something Missing", a new play by J Hannaford at the 2024 Halifax Fringe Festival alongside "Autobiographical Fiction"- an experimental improvised solo show featuring Olivier Blais.

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#UnnaturalDisaster #BottomDwellersHFX

CREDITS

Created by Katherine Norris, Logan Robins, Ellie Weise & Garry Williams

Logan Robins Director, Producer, Puppet Design
MacKenzie Cornfield Projection & Lighting Design
Ellie Weise & Katherine Norris Stage Management & Production Support

CAST
Garry Williams Greenland Shark / Ray
TBC Hagfish / Maxine
TBC Urchin / Spike
TBC Crab / Gulley

ARTISTS

Logan Robins

Director / Producer / Co-Creator

Logan (he/they) is a queer environmental theatre maker, performer, puppeteer, educator, musician, writer, sound designer, and creator of exhaustive lists- based in the Moolipchugechk region of Mi’kma’ki (colonially known as Herring Cove, Nova Scotia).

Most recently they have toured across North America with The Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia as a puppeteer performing Todd Parr’s “It’s Okay to be Different”, wrote/performed in the online radio storytelling experience- ‘program sound.fm”, toured their show “Hippoposthumous” to Calgary and Canmore, Alberta, and directed Robyn Vivian’s play “Deeper” at OutFest 2024 where it too home the Audience Choice Award.

They are the Artistic Director of The Unnatural Disaster Theatre Co and are currently working on several upcoming projects, including a workshop production of a new show, “Bottom Dwellers: A Deep Sea Musical” created with support from the Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition and premiering at Eastern Front’s Stages Festival in June 2024 AND “Autobiographical Fiction” an improvised solo show with Olivier Blais, premiering as a part of the 2024 Halifax Fringe Festival.

Logan is a lover of collaborative creation/devising, site specific theatre, and puppetry/mask! When not in a theatre they can often be found exploring caves or playing their banjolele (It’s exactly what it sounds like and it is glorious)!

@loganrobins @unnaturaldisastertheatre

www.loganrobins.ca

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition, Ocean Week Canada, Ocean Week Halifax, The Discovery Centre, Oceans North, and The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.

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