End of Greatness

WORLD PREMIERE April 16-19, 2026. Available for touring.

Maiko Yamamoto, Veda Hille, Thom Gill and Julia Chien. Photo by Chelsey Stuyt.

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.

Created and Performed by Veda Hille & Maiko Yamamoto
with Musicians Thom Gill and Julia Chien
Landscape and Visual Design Geoffrey Farmer
Textile Design Hitoko Okada
Lighting Design Jeff Harrison
Theatre Scientist Deb Chachra
Movement Consultant Katarina Skår Lisa
Ephemera and Cake Keely O’Brien
Veda & Maiko’s outfits Henrik Vibskov
Costume Support Barbara Clayden
Makeup Jamie King
Stage Manager Jan Hodgson
Technical Director Jessica Han
Artistic Producer Kyle Loven

Veda Hille & Maiko Yamamoto. Photo by Chelsey Stuyt.

End of Greatness is developed with support from the National Creation Fund at Canada’s National Arts Centre and a Deer Lake Artist Residency.

THANK YOU: T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss, Randy Gatley and family, Lucien Durey and Cyrus Boelman, Eugene Choo and The Block, Justin Kellam and Anders Hille Kellam, Mackale Steele, Patsy Klein, Nicholas Krgovich, Kevin, Hokuto, Felix and Toast MacDuff, Saori Yamamoto, Barbara Clayden, Allison Hrabluik, Lynn Chen, Vanessa Kwan, Kildare Curtis, Erin Boniferro, Heather, Nicole, Kelly, Andrew and The Cultch Team.

WORLD PREMIERE
April 16-19, 2026
The Cultch Historic Theatre
VANCOUVER

For touring and all other inquiries, contact maiko@theatrereplacement.org

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