SYNOPSIS
A melodramatic high school apocalypse play. A runaway mutt. A band of estranged friends haunted by strange apparitions. And an untimely brush with a high speed locomotive. It’s New Year’s Eve in Hamilton, Ontario, and the Year 2000 is just around the corner. Strung together by a collage of fortuitous events in the months prior to Y2K, twelve personalities navigate the unique juncture between adolescence and adulthood in a world marked by burgeoning internet culture, media saturation, techno-scares, and social change, all narrated by an omnipotent carp-infested marsh. CLICK BUSH TRAIN BUG is a new play about young adults coming of age on the brink of perceived disaster— and tracing their fears, desires, and dreams from one epoch into the next.
 
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
CLICK BUSH TRAIN BUG: A Fable for Twelve was co-commissioned by Tarragon Theatre and The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University for in-course workshopping and public performances in the Fall of 2023.

SPECIAL THANKS
To Stephanie Avery, Liz Buchanan, Amanda Cosby-Nesbitt, Heather Elaine, Chris Fothergill-Brown, Mathew Iantorno, Patrick Imbeau, Olga Kwak, Maggie MacDonald, Ainsley Murno, and Emily Nixon, for their time and insight into Y2K teenhood—and for their fantastic stories, many of which have made it into this piece. And to Mike Payette, for the opportunity.