“Kill ‘Em With Kindness” at the Montreal FRINGE Festival

“A protest gone wrong. A man killed in broad daylight. Kai, a bad activist with a good heart, must seek forgiveness. But is he sorry?” A dark comedy exploring the messy morals of modern life, this is a show about fear, f***ing up, and finding the light.

In an age of ecological collapse, merely getting through the day can feel like a moral failure. The climate crisis thrusts us into absurd situations and raises impossible questions. Can you judge someone’s ethics by their carbon footprint? Is it possible to be good in a bad world?

Pyrite Theatre makes its Montreal Fringe debut with ‘Kill Em With Kindness,’ a solo confessional with a twist that dives headfirst into the ugliness, contradiction, and darkly comic realities of activism. The show runs from June 2-14th at Aux Angles Ronds.

Created and performed by Misha Nye, a UK-born theatre-maker whose previous work includes Soil (Ottawa Fringe) and Floodgate (Edinburgh Fringe). Misha is an alum of Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal’s Young Creators Unit and recently wrapped up a residency as part of Imago Theatre’s Nested Circles project. His current work explores the messy overlap between performance and protest, art and activism.

The show is directed by Syd Hosseini, a theatre practitioner from Tehran, currently based in Montreal. He is the founder of the CyberShakespeare Collective, which has performed in various cities across the world. In his work, Syd bridges the gap between the physical and digital realms, an approach that invites audiences to engage with performances in a more dynamic and participatory manner.

“I kept thinking about Olivier Huard and Michèle Lavoie, arrested for blocking the Jacques Cartier Bridge. I’ve always backed disruptive action, but I wanted to push my faith as far as it’d go. What if someone died? Would I still defend them? This show sits in that discomfort — I want the audience to leave with more questions than they came with.”
— Misha Nye

Pyrite Theatre is a Montreal-based company founded by Misha Nye in 2022. We make inventive, unsettling work that confronts the climate crisis and shatters theatre’s comfortable voyeurism. Not safe for passive spectators.

“polished and passionate… injecting climate rhetoric with humanity” — Fringe Biscuit

“darkly thought-provoking… delivered with fiery wit” — Apartment 613

“a confrontationally challenging examination of the possible effects of climate change” — British Theatre Guide

Playing at Aux Angles Ronds 5333 Boul. Saint-Laurent.

Tickets
$14 Regular
$11 students

SHOWTIMES

MON 02 June…….7:30PM
TUE 03 June…….7:30PM
WED 04 June…….7:30PM
SAT 07 June…….7:30PM
SUN 08 June…….7:30PM
WED 11 June……….7:30PM
SAT 14 June………7:30PM

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