Kismet, good enough.

(premiering in 2029)

In 2009, 4 artists hitchhiked, bussed and camped across Canada interviewing 100 people ages 1-100 about their beliefs and experiences around fate and destiny. Kismet, one-to-one-hundred’ premiered and went on to perform at The Belfry (Victoria BC) The Theatre Centre (Toronto ON) The Cultch (Vancouver BC) Magnetic North (Ottawa ON) Yukon Arts Centre (Whitehorse) and High Performance Rodeo (Calgary AB) putting the company on the national theatre map.

A decade later, in 2019 the same core artists re-traced their routes and re-interviewed the remaining 100 interviewees to find out what has changed in a decade. ‘Kismet, things of changed,’ toured  to PuSh (Vancouver BC) Shadbolt Centre (Burnaby BC) And then, the world shut down.

Now, in 2026, with 3 parents passed away, six children born, and Emelia travelling with her 13-year-old son instead of her 13-year-old chihuahua, the same creative team once again finds and reconnects with their remaining 100 interviewees that they first met in 2009. The ten-year-old who believed in unicorns is now thirty and divorced. The sisters from Bella Coola have a lot more to say about tourism on their ancestral lands. Will we find Judy? Or has she escaped Prince George for good. A play twenty-years in the making, the cast returns to the stage older, shocked, with un-answerable questions this time. Do you know what’s coming? How can we live with what we have? Is this good enough?

Core Artists: Anita Rochon, Emelia Symington Fedy, Hazel Venzon, Daryl King.

First Kismet trailer 2009:

Second Kismet trailer 2019: