Rape is Real and Everywhere: A Comedy Show by Survivors

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Tuesday, May 17th, 2016
7:30 PM to 10:30 PM

Rape jokes are everywhere. But who are the people telling them? Are they ever OK, let alone funny? What if the people telling rape jokes were survivors? Rape is Real and Everywhere is what happens when seasoned comedians who have survived rape share their experience and joke it out.

Prepare yourself for hilarity, cathartic honesty and comedy that punches up at the issues. Seasoned stand-up comedians, who are survivors, use humour as a celebration of resiliency to connect with an audience looking for big, cathartic laughs. This explosive show puts faces and stories to a taboo epidemic with nameless victims. It's funny, raw and human.

Produced and performed by Heather Jordan Ross and Emma Cooper and featuring Amanda Smith, Mark Hughes and Randee Neumeyer with our spectacular headliner Jane Stanton! There’s a slick piece of East Van graffiti that, in elegant cursive, reads: ‘Rape is Real and Everywhere.’ It is, and we can talk and joke about it openly, together.