Landscape Grindr

A full-length interdisciplinary theatre performance, Landscape Grindr is a highly personal narrative filtered through reflections on  pressing themes: sexual violence, the destruction of nature, and the constant mediation of these concepts through screens. It is a piece that shifts between vulnerability, sarcasm, and discomfort as the author questions his own sexual identity amid the backdrop of the #metoo and environmental justice movements. Caught up in these movements that hinge on believability, when do we ourselves come across as believable as we transgress our assigned gender? How do we question our own nature when our representations of nature, sexuality, and change are most often constant images of violence? The project brings together a group of queer and trans artists from different disciplines in a deconstructed staging where text, video, and performance are on equal footing. Incubated through MAI’s Alliance program and at Playwrights Workshop Montreal, La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines’ presentation of Landscape Grindr is the very first public presentation of this new work written by, facilitated by, and featuring theatre artist Michael Martini.