The Sandwich: Transforming Consciousness Bite by Bite is a neo-psychedelic performance work inspired by Albert Hoffman’s serendipitous discovery of LSD. In 1943, the Swiss chemist absorbed a small quantity of an unknown substance through his fingertips while attempting to re-synthesize the molecule ergot – a fungus that grows on diseased rye. Hoffman’s hallucinatory self-experimentations would go on to radically change how people experience the world.

The Sandwich: Transforming Consciousness Bite by Bite

Creation + Direction by Mia van Leeuwen

Co-creation + Performance by Ian Mozdzen

Featuring:

Julia Ryckman
Delf Gravert
Natasha Torres-Garner

Video: Richard Altman

Wednesday May 9, Thursday May 10, Friday May 11 and Saturday May 12 (8pm nightly)

Saturday May 12 after-party with DjBeekeeni Vavjungle begins following the final performance!    http://www.facebook.com/djbeekeeni

ATOMIC – 167 Logan Ave: http://atomiccentre.net/

$12 (student/artist/ underemployed) and $15 (regular). Cash only @ door.

Seating is limited. To reserve a seat: email info@outoflinetheatre.com or #291.9066 or FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/events/158401950955120/

With generous support from the Winnipeg and Manitoba Arts Council.

out of line theatre invites audiences to witness and participate as the doors of perception open up for a modern character named Person.

Person is being eaten up by a culture of idleness, consumption and loneliness. Finally, Person cries out to the cosmos for help …

Did someone order a rye sandwich?

 Let the trip begin!

Part Alice in Wonderland, part Requiem For a Dream, part Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Sandwich is a transformative journey through a mindscape of altered states that will uncover the incredible and find new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.