The Art of Building a Bunker

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A viciously funny and tragic one-man play recounting an average week in Elvis's life as he endures mandatory workplace sensitivity training. He's gotta do well, otherwise he's going to lose his job.

Adam Lazarus is "Toronto's favorite nasty clown" (Toronto Star).

Guillermo Verdecchia is a leading Canadian dramatist.

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"Explores incivility ... The Art of Building a Bunker pisses some people off, but its also getting rave reviews. 'I come out the other end feeling all stirred up and a little bit ecstatic,' Verdecchia says, describing his own experience of viewing the show. 'I have a different relationship to it, being one of the creators, but I like the fact that many people find it unsettling, and I also like the fact that people like the fact that theyre unsettled.' " Colin Thomas, Georgia Straight

"Pleasantly amusing and smartly satirical."Robert Crew, Toronto Star

"The chuckles here are rarely easy or comforting, and sometimes the most unsettling ones are the most revealing."Jon Kaplan, NOW

Author Bio

Adam Lazarus is Torontos favourite nasty clown (Toronto Star). He is an award-winning actor, director, and acting instructor.

Guillermo Verdecchia is a leading Canadian dramatist. He is a writer of drama, fiction, and film; a director, dramaturge, actor, and translator whose work has been seen and heard on stages, screens, and radios across the country and around the globe. The author, or co-author, of, among other works, The Noam Chomsky Lectures and Insomnia (with Daniel Brooks); Fronteras Americanas, The Terrible but Incomplete Journals of John D., bloom; A Line in the Sand (with Marcus Youssef), and the controversial Adventures of Ali and Ali and the aXes of Evil (with Camyar Chai and Marcus Youssef). He is a recipient of the Governor Generals Award for Drama, a four-time winner of the Chalmers Canadian Play Award, a recipient of Dora and Jessie Awards, and sundry film festival awards for his film Crucero/Crossroads, based on Fronteras Americanas and made with Ramiro Puerta.