Crawlspace is a comic, Kafka-esque monologue about the darker side of home ownership that moves past “cautionary” as it snakes through the brutal battleground of real estate, decorative twig orbs and the state of the human soul.

CRAWLSPACE

Created and performed by Karen Hines

Award-winning writer and performer Karen Hines explores the darker side of real estate in CRAWLSPACE, a comic, Kafka-esque monologue that snakes through the brutal battleground of real estate, decorative twig orbs and the state of the human soul.

CRAWLSPACE is inspired by Hines’ true story of buying a fully detached 'condo alternative' in a hip downtown neighbourhood in a heated market... and how it all went horribly, nightmarishly wrong. The story became a National Magazine Award-nominated feature called My Little House of Horrors (Swerve Magazine). It was then adapted as a stage play and readings were performedfor ‘boutique’ audiences in an Edmonton basement, a Northern Ontario dining room, and a tiny Toronto kitchen. CRAWLSPACE premiered publicly at Videofag, a cultural hub in a storefront space in Toronto’s Kensington Market.

From 2015–2018, CRAWLSPACE has enjoyed sold-out theatrical runs and staged readings: Edmonton, Calgary’s Wordfest, Debajehmujig, Vancouver and twice in Toronto, where the play was nominated for 5 Dora Mavor Moore Awards including Best New Play. Published by Coach House Books, CRAWLSPACE was finalist for the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s Award for Best New Play, and recently won the Writers’ Guild of Alberta Literary Prize for Best Play. The High Performance Rodeo marks Crawlspace’s first theatrical run in Calgary.

Now being adapted as a feature film, CRAWLSPACE is a darkly comedic tale that moves past ‘cautionary’ as it unearths the darker side of property ownership.

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