Winner of three awards at the 2020 Montreal English Theatre Awards, including Outstanding New Text, Outstanding Emerging Playwright & Producer, Outstanding Independent Production, GOING UP by Kiki Dranias was nominated seven times at the 2020 META.

The script also received Official Selection at the New York Independent Cinema Awards and the Los Angeles Independent Women Film Awards.

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GOING UP is when a man with a death wish comes face-to-face with a suppressed killer(ess), and there’s no way out.

In an immersive site-specific environment of a freight elevator, GOING UP offers a first-hand voyeuristic experience, where the audience gets stuck in a moving elevator, and watches up close how two strangely compatible people end up being both pawn and key master to each other’s deepest and darkest desires.

This stark, avant-garde theatre piece unravels while probing a deep-rooted struggle with depression, control, the right to live-and-die, and self-actualization.

Written by Kiki Dranias directed by Jen Viens & starring Kelly Craig and Paul Van Dyck, GOING UP had its theatrical debut on Nov 21 - Nov 30, 2019, on board Elevator #1 at Le 5800 St. Denis, Montreal / All 14 performances were sold-out / 18+ / Not suited for claustrophobes.

GOING UP by Kiki Dranias / Produced by Purple Divine receives three 2020 Montreal English Theatre Awards (META) for Outstanding New Text, Outstanding Emerging Playwright & Producer & Outstanding Independent Production