Last 15 Seconds

The Last 15 Seconds

The Last 15 Seconds April 6 to April 16

Produced by The MT Space (Kitchener-Waterloo) in Association with Theatre Passe Muraille

Co-created by Trevor Copp, Anne-Marie Donovan, Nada Homsi, Gary Kirkham, Pam Patel, and Alan K. Sapp
Co-created and directed by Majdi Bou-Matar

April 6 to April 16, 2011

This is the experience that will have you watching the clock.

TPM is thrilled to host MT Space theatre and to be their home-away-from-Kitchener; as the culmination of their Spring 2011 Canadian tour across the west. The Last 15 Seconds is a meeting of the minds, so to speak, between a suicide bomber and the man who was killed, alongside his family, as a result. Using movement, dance, video, vocals and text, this project explores the topic of terrorism. It starts from the tragic death of Syrian-American filmmaker Mustapha Akkad and his daughter Rima in a series of coordinated attacks that hit three prominent hotels in the Jordanian capital Amman in 2005. The work constructs an imagined physical and verbal dialogue between Mustapha Akkad and Rawad Jassem Mohammad Abed, the suicide bomber who carried out the explosion. The work also looks at the imagined lives and memories of both the victim and his killer as they revisit each other’s lives after their fatal encounter.