I Love the Smell of Gasoline

In I Love The Smell of Gasoline, Claren attempts to reconcile her Alberta oil-industry roots with the current environmental emergency. The project was born of a frustration with divisive Canadian politics, rampant hypocrisy, and a lack of team spirit when facing impending doom. It unpacks some of the forces that drive global warming and Western alienation in a personal account of what it is to live in a modern, capitalist environment, be a self-serving organism, and also care about the earth and fellow creature kind. 

October 6, 2022 at 7:30 PM
October 7, 2022 at 7:30 PM
October 8, 2022 at 8:30 PM

“I find media exploring global warming tends to incite despair. This play focuses on the humanity underneath the crisis– the ways we try, the reasons we don’t and the causes for hope.”

About the artist

Pencil Kit Productions is a Toronto based, ever-evolving theatre and events organism. We’re dedicated to generating new work and building community with an emphasis on alternative, collaborative processes that prioritize the wellbeing and creative fulfillment of artists. We are interested in all things strange, delicious, novel, magic, experiential, sensorial and imagistic. We know that at its heart, theatre is a social art form. We aim to cultivate spaces where artists and audiences can have fun– from workshops to parties to performances.