Best Life
Available for touring.
Best Life is a new, relational show performed by an audience for an audience, inspired by the machines that make our lives better. What if these domestic machines could whisper to us the stories of the people they are caring for? In Best Life, they become the audience’s companions—everyday ‘R2D2s’ that teach us how to perform the show for each other. Scenes emerge that reveal a suburban neighbourhood, over a span of 50 years—an origami of everyday objects that the audience interacts with, to build a shared narrative of longing in this moment. An intimate and participatory audience experience that will simultaneously take you back into the past, as well as forward into the far far future, Best Life also asks a much bigger question about what it is we are leaving behind.
Best Life. Photo by Chelsey Stuyt.
Best Life was developed through LIFT’s Concept Touring Digital Residency, the Deer Lake Artist’s Residency and through the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.
Created by TR’s Artistic Director, Maiko Yamamoto, in collaboration with Antoine Bedard, Arthi Chandra, Itai Erdal and Keely O’Brien. Special thanks to Remy Siu, Leah Weinstein, Cindy Mochizuki, Kyle Loven, Christie Watson, Dan O’Shea, Cory Philley, Kris Nelson and Kee Hong Low. Best Life premiered in November 2022 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, and was featured as part of ISPA’s Pitch New Works program in Manchester UK (2023), and was most recently presented as part of HOLD ON LET GO.
For touring inquiries, contact katie@theatrereplacement.org
Drawings by Keely O'Brien
Photos by Chelsey Stuyt
Video by Emma Pollard