news | Thursday January 17, 2013

Winning!

In Winners and Losers, theatre artists and long-time friends Marcus Youssef and James Long sit at a table and play a game they made up, called winners and losers. In it, they name people, places or things – Pam Anderson, Microwave ovens, their fathers, Goldman Sachs, Mexico, etc. – and debate whether they are winners or losers. As each one seeks to defeat the other, the debate becomes personal as they dissect each other’s individual, familial and class histories. And because one of these men is the product of economic privilege, and the other is not, the competition very quickly adds up.

Winners and Losers runs January 30 – February 2, 2013 at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts in Vancouver and is part of the PuSh festival.