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Impulse Theatre presentsSmartSmart by Adrienne Wong
November 5th, 6th at 7pm, and November 9th at 2pm, 2025
Robin & Winifred Wood Recital Hall at the Victoria Conservatory of Music (Entrance on 900 Johnson St.)
$40, $25, $20, or $10
Take your phone to the theatre! Join acclaimed theatre creator Adrienne Wong for storytelling, crafts, and surprises—phones on.
Smartphones are modern cybernetic devices, like contact lenses or cochlear implants, modifying us in the name of progress. They extend our senses through haptics, reminders, and constant connectivity, shaping our habits, relationships, and self-awareness.
SmartSmart is a new work exploring pervasive media and our evolving bond with technology. Developed during Wong’s residency with Theatre Replacement’s COLLIDER program, it investigates how devices impact human interaction.
Written, Created + Performed by Adrienne Wong
Digital Design: Andie Lloyd
Set Design: Barbara Clayden
Producer: Margaret Evans
About the artists:
Adrienne Wong (she/her) is a theatre maker whose work straddles theatrical and digital space. She is the Artistic Director of SpiderWebShow Performance and co-curates FOLDA. Adrienne holds a BFA Theatre from SFU, an MFA Writing from UVic, and is one of four finalists for the 2025 Siminovitch Prize.
Duration:
1 hour
Practical Information:
Audience will be required to bring a phone to participate.
Accessibility
To find out more about Accessibility measures, go to www.impulsetheatre.ca/accessibility
Venue Information
VCM Wood Hall (900 Johnson St)
Entry to Wood Hall is on Johnson St through the black gates.
This venue has an extended ramp at the entrance and level entry into the building. There are armless chairs.
Washrooms: The venue has a single user, all gender, wheelchair accessible washroom.
Parking & Transit: There is a limited street parking near Wood Hall. Pay parking at on-street meters is in effect from 8am-8pm. Parking is free after 8pm and all day on statutory holidays. Payment can be made by coin, credit card, the ParkVictoria app, or the City Parking Card at an on-street pay station within your zone.
Some of the BC transit bus routes that run near are #6 along Quadra St and the #2, 24, 25, 27 & 28 along Johnson St.
Acknowledgements
Presented with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of BC, the BC Arts Council, the Victoria Foundation, City of Victoria, and the CRD Arts & Culture Support Service.
Sponsors include Theatre SKAM, Westcoast Academy of Performing Arts and Braem Accountancy Ltd.
Impulse Theatre lives and creates on the traditional and unceded territory of the Lekwungen Peoples, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.
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Wood Recital Hall, 1032 Yates St, Victoria, BC V8V 3M6, Canada
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