Available to Stream on July 24, 2024
(Vancouver, B.C.) – Realwheels Theatre is excited to announce their new production, Disability Tour Bus, will be released as a radio play podcast and available for streaming on July 24 at www.realwheels.ca.
Written for podcast platforms by Amy Amantea and Rena Cohen, Disability Tour Bus follows Shiloh, a young wheelchair-user, as they navigate their first day as a guide for “Funcouver Bus Tours”. Working alongside longtime employee and relentless dad-joker, Hugh, Shiloh struggles to stick to the “Funcouver” script when so much of “Canada’s most wheelchair-accessible city” is still so incredibly inaccessible. People and politics collide until a new passenger, Tess, comes aboard and offers unexpected common ground. The tour must go on! Because there’s someone special waiting for Tess at the end. At least she hopes there is. “As a wheelchair-user, I’ve heard that whole ‘most accessible city’ line a lot,” says Realwheels Co-Artistic Director, Adam Grant Warren. “It’s a big part of the reason I moved to Vancouver from the other side of the country. I’ve been here for sixteen years now. After hundreds of busted elevators, torn up sidewalks and too-full buses, I know Vancouver has a lot of work to do. Access-wise it means well, but it’s a mess sometimes. For me, that’s one of the most interesting tensions in this project: the attempt to create access when no one thought to ask what those of us who are looking for it actually need.”
For more information on Realwheels Theatre, please visit the following platforms:
Website: www.realwheels.ca
Facebook: @RealwheelsTheatre
Instagram: @realwheelstheatre
YouTube: RealwheelsTheatre
About Realwheels Theatre:
At Realwheels Theatre, we invite Vancouver’s, Canada’s, and the world’s most compelling creators to explore the complex and nuanced experience of disability with us. We challenge long-held stereotypes of representation with stories that never tokenize; never explain or justify our lives as people with disabilities or disabled people; and never offer tidy lessons in acceptance or perseverance. Instead, we invite our artists and audiences to come with us as we discover new ways to tell stories that are as rich, full, and varied as we are. www.realwheels.ca
This podcast is generously supported by the British Columbia Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Vancouver, the Hamber Foundation, McLean Foundation, and Deux Mille Foundation.
We acknowledge the financial assistance of the Province of British Columbia.
Produced with the co-operation of the Union of B.C. Performers (UBCP/ACTRA).