This 40-minute, high-intensity, no-holds-barred play from Purple Divine is unlike anything you’ve seen before.
The scene is a freight elevator—and so is the set. The audience entrance is though a loading dock door, setting the tone for the dark, emotional, and often harrowing conversation that takes place between Going Up’s two actors (Kelly Craig and Paul Van Dyck) as they discuss the struggles of depression, control, the right to live and die, and self-empowerment.
Playwright Kiki Dranias has created an unforgettable psycho-erotic drama that shows us, up close and personal, what happens when “a man with a death wish comes face-to-face with a suppressed killer and there’s no way out.”
“Who decides what is right and wrong?” asks director Jen Viens. “From where are our values cultivated? If we were free from social restriction, what desires would we give in to? I appreciate that this story explores these hard questions through two complex people, and it does so without judgement, but rather with curiosity. We need to be talking about things that scare us; to have more of these uncomfortable conversations. Art allows us the freedom to do so.”
Performances of Going Up are on from November 21 – 24 and 28 – 30.
Space is very limited. Get your tickets here.
