Pi Theatre presents the Batrabbit Collective's Rat Academy, December 5 to 7
In Pi Provocateurs presentation, physical-comedy duo Dayna Lea Hoffmann and Katie Yoner school audiences on the ways of the Alberta street rat
Rat Academy.
Pi Theatre launches this year’s Pi Provocateurs Performance Series with Rat Academy by Edmonton’s Batrabbit Collective from December 5 to 7 at a secret space in East Vancouver. (Ticket holders will be given the exact address three days before the show.)
Fingers, a curmudgeonly street rat with a heart of gold, is completely alone in Alberta—or so he thinks, until he discovers Shrimp, an escaped happy-go-lucky lab rat. Eager to preserve his legacy, Fingers creates the Rat Academy to train Shrimp in the ways of the cold, hard street rat. On the syllabus are Cheese-ology, the Art of Scaring Magpies, Stealing 101, and Advanced Tails. But dark alleys are far from predictable, and as the unlikely duo tries to exist in a world that hates them, they learn that survival is nothing without love.
Inspired by Alberta’s famous 1950s anti-rat propaganda and mentored by Mump and Smoot, physical-comedy duo Dayna Lea Hoffmann and Katie Yoner will have viewers clutching their tails.
Tickets and more details are at Pi Theatre.
Post sponsored by Pi Theatre.
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