article :: Trevor Copp tackles challenging role as suicide bomber
Dennis Smith, SPECIAL TO BURLINGTON POST Jan 27, 2012 – 4:32 PM
Trevor Copp is no stranger to provocative theatre — previous play topics included two men ballroom dancing and a relationship involving a minor.
He’ll play a suicide bomber in The Last 15 Seconds, which opens on Friday, Feb. 3 at the Burlington Performing Arts Centre.
“It’s fascinating to probe what makes any human do that,” said Copp. “Expressing it as a Burlington resident was very intimidating for me.”
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article :: The Last 15 Seconds is an inspiration
Canoe Festival play explores price tag of terrorism
By Liz Nicholls, edmontonjournal.com January 19, 2012
EDMONTON – If The Iron Lady is getting flack for making a brutal, culturally blind politician more “human” — mainly by having a great actor flesh out Thatcher’s third dimension, as great actors are wont to do — The Last 15 Seconds takes an even bigger risk…
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article :: Making the list
Tuesday, January, 10, 2012 – 10:10:33 AM
By Timothy Grier, Special to the Chronicle
Waterloo resident gives MT Space theatre a national profile with must-see play
Waterloo may be famous for its digital brainpower, but Majdi Bou-Matar is putting his adopted hometown on the map for something else — acclaimed contemporary theatre….
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article :: Best on the stage for 2011
By John Coulbourn ,QMI Agency
First posted:
“1. The Last 15 Seconds: Kitchener-Waterloo’s MT Space’s compelling piece of movement theatre, about a suicide bomber and the man he killed, exploded on the Theatre Passe Muraille stage and was gone before most people realized it was there. Pity, both for a hugely talented company and for those who missed them.”
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article :: Slotkin’s Top 10 Picks, Etc
by Lynn on December 30, 2011
in The Passionate Playgoer
“THE LAST 15 SECONDS by MT Space from Kitchener and presented by Theatre Passe Muraille. My jaw dropped when I saw this. About a man who died in a suicide bombing whose spirit confronts the bomber. The imagination involved in this work was astonishing. So good was it that I will seek out MT Space whenever and wherever I can possibly find them.”
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article :: Artists in the GTA: Trevor Copp brings edgy theatrical fare into the heart of a bedroom community
Leah Sandals | Wednesday, September 14, 2011
“At first, this August evening in Burlington’s Optimist Park seems like a typical suburban midsummer night’s dream: Two adult slo-pitch teams compete on a diamond, a passel of dog walkers stroll lawns and a few errant balls thwack softly into tennis-court nets.
But in a two-storey cinder-block building at the edge of the park, history is being made…”
The Last 15 Seconds
by MT Space Theatre
Using movement, dance, video, vocals, and text, this play explores the death of Syrian-American filmmaker Mustapha Akkad and his daughter Rima in Amman, Jordan in 2005. The work constructs an imagined physical and verbal dialogue between Akkad and suicide bomber Rawad Jassem Mohammed Aded, his killer. After several National and International tours, ‘The Last 15 Seconds’ is perhaps Canadian Theatre’s greatest examination on the nature of terrorism.
The Burlington Performing Arts Centre
440 Locust St.
Burlington, Ontario
Showtimes:
Fri Feb 03, 2012 7:30 PM
Sat Feb 04, 2012 7:30 PM
Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:00 PM
