Premium Content
Produced By Major Matt Mason At The Pumphouse in Calgary (2019), and at the High Performance Rodeo (2020)
Directed by Geoffrey Simon Brown.
Production design by Alison Yanota.
Animation and projection design by Tyler Klein Longmire.
Sound design and production management by Tori Morrison.
Stage management by Meredith Johnson.
Intimacy direction by Alexis Lerigny.
Photos by Ty Carson.
Premiere cast: Mikaela Cochrane, Zoe Glassman, Vanessa Jetté, Evan Medd, Jay Northcott, Joe Perry.
Subsequent cast: Mikaela Cochrane, Zoe Glassman, Vanessa Jetté, Evan Medd, Jay Northcott, Joe Perry, Mike Tan.
Blair makes videos. Blair needs a project. Blair has a webcam. Blair has some friends. Blair’s friends are into some kinky shit.
Premium Content is a play about art, consent, polyamory and the internet. It’s a play about boundaries: In relationships, in art, and the grey space where they converge. It’s a play about the difference between a funeral and a grilled cheese sandwich. It’s a play about trying really hard to be really cool.
The production is staged with rotating casting. 6 actors each learned 3 of the play’s 5 roles, for a different casting combination with different gender dynamics every performance. Tyler Klein Longmire’s video design incorporates live video from 4 cameras and live motion-caption animation.
“The Major Matt Mason Collective’s production of Premium Content is a unique, unconventional experience.”
“Alison Yanota’s production designs are a knockout as is Tori Morrison’s music and sound and the play wouldn’t be nearly as dazzlingly without Tyler Klein Longmire’s animation sequences.” – Louis B. Hobson, The Calgary Herald and the National Post
