Slugs

From award-winning queer Canadian performance/comedy duo, Creepy Boys (Sam Kruger & S.E. Grummett) comes a brand new show: SLUGS. Combining live electronic comedy songs, live feed video, and DIY trash puppets to explore class, economic privilege and the politics of trying to have a good time while this world burns.

Show Details:
Slugs
Date: January 15th + 16th, 2025
Doors: 7:00 PM
Show: 8:00 PM
Tickets: $25.00 in advance online or in person at Paper Umbrella (2724 13th Avenue), or $30.00 at the door.

*Advance tickets close at 5:00 PM day-of-show. Additional tickets will be available at the door unless it is officially labelled SOLD OUT*

The Artesian is wheelchair accessible, all-ages, and a proud supporter of positive spaces initiatives with a zero-tolerance policy towards hate, harassment, and/or discrimination. We reserve the right to remove any patron creating an unsafe environment. The accessible entrance is available via a lift, Please ask staff for help if necessary.

About Slugs:

In “Slugs”, two characters attempt to make a show about nothing. 

They ask, “can’t we just have fun?”

They ask this directly to the audience, as the fourth wall is long gone. Instead, these characters seek to have an hour where we are free of the world outside. Here together, we don’t need to think about it, because this is a special space, where dreams are made, and where our problems don’t matter. But as the show goes along, their space gets invaded by their (our) reality: of being poor, of being marginalized, of being a body with needs connected inextricably to the land and those around them. 

“Slugs” is about whether we as theatre makers can ever leave our identities, experiences or intersections at the door - and even if we could, should we? This is about trying to make art in a neoliberal, capitalist world, that is sellable, fundable and programmable, while creating alternative spaces where we might actually, finally, find some relief.  

SLUGS  is a play, a clown show, a techno-punk concert, a basement puppet show and a live comedy album all at once. With collaborations by Juno-award nominated musical comedian, Shirley Gnome, Governor General Award-winning playwright, Caleigh Crow, alt-comedy legend Deanna Fleysher (Butt Kapinski), inaugural Julie Taymor World Theater Fellow Zach Dorn.

CONTENT WARNINGS

Flashing lights, Audience participation, Full Nudity, Scenes of a sexual nature, Strong language/swearing, Use of prop firearms, Sudden loud sounds, Strong themes

S.E. Grummett (they/them) - Co-Creator / Performer

Grumms is a queer, transgender theatre artist from Treaty 6 Territory. Over the past 5 years, Grumms has created a body of original queer work and toured it around the world, including Canada, US, UK, Europe and Australia. Their solo-show, “Something in the Water", has toured around the world to queer audiences young and old. Grumms is the recipient of the 2022 RBC Outstanding Award in recognition for their contribution to the queer and trans community across Saskatchewan, and recently won the inaugural 2SLGBTQIA+ Multidisciplinary Artist Award presented by the Sask Foundation for the Arts. 

Sam Kruger (he/him) - Co-Creator / Performer

Sam is a performer, writer, and theatre maker. A recent immigrant to Canada, his solo theatre works “Fool Muun Komming! [BeBgWunderful/YEsyes/4sure.Hi5/TruLuv;SpankSpank:SOfun_Grate_Times]”, “Bat Brains or let’s explore mental illness with vampires” and Creepy Boys have toured throughout Canada, Australia and the UK since 2018 to widespread critical acclaim and various awards. He holds a BA from the University of Minnesota, and is a graduate of the Ecole Philippe Gaulier, in Étampes, France.