End of Greatness
Artist: Theatre Replacement / Veda Hille + Maiko Yamamoto
Mainstage Presentation
Russian Hall (600 Campbell Ave, Vancouver)
*This is a special in-development sharing for HOLD ON LET GO.
Thursday, February 5 @ 8pm
Duration: 75 minutes
Photo: Maiko Yamamoto and Veda Hille
Credit: By Chelsea Stuyt
Image description: Two people, one standing in front of the other in frame. The person in the front is a woman with dark hair, wearing a black hoodie with an embroidered image on the front. She is wearing make up that is a bit unusual; her eyebrows are painted purple and white and she has yellow highlights around her forehead, nose and chin. Her hands are reaching into the neck of her hoodie. The person in the back is a woman with white hair standing to the back and left of the woman in front. She is wearing a black and white striped hoodie, which is covering most of her face. Her hands are clasped in front. She is a bit fuzzy in the picture, where the woman in front is in focus.
End of Greatness is a new multidisciplinary performance by friends and longtime collaborators Veda Hille and Maiko Yamamoto. The show focuses in on microscopic intricacies such as mosses and mushrooms on the forest floor, and then zooms out to embrace cosmological concepts and gigantic systems, while always remaining centred on the human relationship at the heart of the piece. Through songs and music, dialogue, mythology, art objects, choreography and cake, End of Greatness attempts to ease the audience into acceptance of the current dire elements in our culture and asks them to hold hands and step forward into whatever is coming next.
Veda is a musician who has created many albums, musicals and hybrid forms of performance. A celebrated indie musician and a beloved national talent, she has composed music for theatre, opera, choirs, video games, and much, much more. Maiko is an award-winning performance maker and director whose works are known for their formal inventiveness and exploration, conceptual play and experimental rigour. End of Greatness proposes new music, writing, images, rituals and offerings; a generous sharing of memories, experience and knowledge, demonstrated onstage by Veda and Maiko, together with an audience.
Premiering April 16-19, 2026 at The Cultch.
Created and Performed by Veda Hille + Maiko Yamamoto, with members of Veda Hille Sisterhood, Thom Gill and Julia Chien
Landscape/Visual Design by Geoffrey Farmer
Textile Design by Hitoko Okada
Movement by Katarina Skår Lisa
Lighting Design by Jeff Harrison
Theatre Scientist – Deb Chachra
Produced by Theatre Replacement and Veda Hille. Developed in collaboration with the National Creation Fund at Canada's National Arts Centre.
THEATRE REPLACEMENT creates original, experimental and intercultural performance works built through highly collaborative processes with diverse artists. Our pieces explore how audiences and performance interact while engaging with big questions about the world. Through mentorships, residencies and international partnerships, we share our methods, foster cultural exchange and connect with artists globally — creating bold, contemporary works that reflect multiple perspectives, histories and identities. TR's Artistic Director is Maiko Yamamoto.
VEDA HILLE is a Vancouver musician, composer, theatre maker and performer. She writes songs, makes records, co-writes musicals, collaborates in devised theatre and fulfills other interesting assignments as they arise. Veda performs in a wide array of places, alone or with bands, ensembles, symphonies and casts. She writes about the natural world, amazement and the unknown and the intricacies of human relationships, and strives for an ecstatic connection through weird detail: the universe visible through a microscope.
CONTACT
Maiko Yamamoto
Artistic Director, Theatre Replacement
maiko@theatrereplacement.org
+1 604 780-4084
@theatre_replacement
@maikobae
Veda Hille
vhille@hotmail.com
@loveyoulikealion