The Cultch hosts the Canadian premiere of Pony Cam’s Burnout Paradise, November 20 to December 7
Chaotic, cardio-filled show features four performers on treadmills juggling life’s endless to-do lists
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Burnout Paradise. Photo by Cameron Grant
The Cultch is presenting the Canadian premiere of Burnout Paradise, an unconventional theatre performance by Australia-based collective Pony Cam, at the Historic Theatre from November 20 to December 7. The show has been a standout among critics and audiences alike since its debut at the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2023.
Four performers will mount four treadmills. As they sprint, sweat, and juggle life’s endless to-do lists, they’ll tackle an escalating series of tasks—cooking pasta, brushing teeth, quoting Shakespeare, even filling out a grant application—all while running in place. The result is a hilariously unpredictable night of fun and an unravelling realization that the chaos of modern life was not designed for us. In Burnout Paradise, seemingly nothing is off limits.
Pony Cam is an award-winning experimental collective of five theatremakers from across Australia. Together, they create moments where audiences are challenged to question their assumptions, laugh at themselves, and reject habitual recourse. Their highly playful work has been lauded around the world for unexpectedly subverting well-known forms and bringing people together. The current lineup for Pony Cam is Claire Bird, Ava Campbell, William Strom, Dominic Weintraub, and Hugo Williams.
Burnout Paradise. Photo by Darren Gill
Four of the collective’s members, Bird, Strom, Weintraub, and Williams, are performing in Burnout Paradise with local host Anjela Magpantay. The show was produced for multidisciplinary Australian company Parrot Ox by Dans Maree Sheehan, who also did the lighting design.
Vancouver is the only Canadian destination on Pony Cam’s North American tour of Burnout Paradise, which will see the collective perform 40 times in seven cities. Tour stops in the U.S. include Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Urbana, Illinois; Tampa, Florida; and Los Angeles, San Diego, and Stanford in California.
This chaotic, cardio-filled production takes the daily grind and turns it into a wildly entertaining ride. Opening night of Burnout Paradise is on November 20 at 7:30 pm, and showtimes throughout the production’s run are at 2 pm, 4 pm, and 7:30 pm.
Single tickets to see Burnout Paradise in Vancouver are on sale now through The Cultch’s box office by phone at 604-251-1363 or online. More information is available here.
Post sponsored by The Cultch.
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