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Sept 3 – 26, 2010
Preview: Sept 2 ($8.00) Opening: Sept 3
Talkback: Sept 9

Canadian Première
THE POWER OF YES
by David Hare
“Capitalism works when greed and fear are in the correct balance.  This time they got out of balance.  Too much greed, not enough fear.”
On 15 September 2008, capitalism came to a grinding halt.  As sub-prime mortgages and toxic securities continued to dominate the headlines well into 2009, the National Theatre asked David Hare to write an urgent and immediate work that sought to find out what had happened and why.
“If you want to understand the financial crises you should go to the theatre” [Independent]

 UNITED PLAYERS OF VANCOUVER

September 29 – October 2 (Tue - Sat)

THE FRINGE AT JAC
A selection from the best of this year’s Vancouver Fringe Festival. There will be two different performances each day, with up to 5 companies participating with a minimum two performances each over the week. 

VANCOUVER FRINGE FESTIVAL

October 8 - 30

SWEENEY TODD
by Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler
directed by Ryan Mooney
A Chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells the infamous tale of the unjustly exiled barber who returns to 19th century London seeking revenge against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. His thirst for blood soon expands to include his unfortunate customers, and the resourceful proprietress of the pie shop downstairs soon has the people of London lining up in droves with her mysterious new meat pie recipe!

FIGHTING CHANCE PRODUCTIONS

Nov 12 – Dec 5
Preview: Nov 11 ($8.00) Opening: Nov 12
Talkback: Nov 18

MRS KLEIN
by Nicholas Wright
In 1934, the son of Britain’s most admired psychoanalyst, Melanie Klein, was reported killed in a climbing accident.  There were no witnesses.  Nicholas Wright’s play shows the effect of this shattering and unexpected death on Mrs. Klein, on her daughter and on her new assistant Paula, a young refugee from Hitler’s Berlin.  Mr. Wright’s haunting and poignant study of mother-daughter relationships played at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2009.

UNITED PLAYERS OF VANCOUVER

December 9-12, 14-19 and 21-23, 2009 
8pm doors open at 7:30pm
Matinées on December 12 and 19 will open at 1:30 pm             

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Written by Charles Dickens and adapted by Fiona Revill.
Directed by Michael Cope. 
Expect the unexpected when you wander into our winter wonderland of weirdness because this Christmas season we're giving this classic yarn the ol' "Spectral spin".  Utilizing a variety of theatrical styles from masks to puppetry and shadow play, we'll endeavor to present a grittier, creepier and more engaging interpretation of this oft-told tale.  One way or another, we'll scare the Dickens out of you.

SPECTRAL THEATRE SOCIETY

2011

Jan 21 – Feb 13, 2011
Preview: Jan 20 ($8.00) Opening: Jan 21
Talkback: Jan 27

WASTE
by Harley Granville Barker
“A scandal half-sifted is worse than a scandal.  One is at everybody’s mercy.”
Waste is a rich portrait of early 20th century society which, in dramatizing the hypocrisy, sexual scandals and ruthless power machinations of the time, is as powerfully relevant today as when it was first written in 1909.  Controversially banned by the Lord Chamberlain when first presented at the Imperial Theatre, Waste had its first full public performance 29 years later at the Westminster.  It was revived at the Almeida Theatre London, September 2008.

UNITED PLAYERS OF VANCOUVER

Feb 18 -  Mar 6

THE PILLOWMAN
by Martin McDonagh
Katurian, a writer of grisly short stories often showing violence against children, has been arrested by two detectives, Ariel and Tupolski, because some of his stories resemble recent child murders. When he hears that his brother Michal has confessed to the murders and implicated Katurian, he resigns himself to his execution but attempts to save his stories from destruction. The play includes both narrations and reenactments of several of Katurian's stories, most notably the autobiographical "The Writer and the Writer's Brother," which tells how Katurian developed his disturbed imagination by hearing the sounds of Michal being tortured by their parents.

WILD GEESE EQUITY CO-OP

Apr 1 – 24
Preview: Mar 31 ($8.00) Opening: Apr 1
Talkback: Apr 7

ROSMERSHOLM
by Henrik Ibsen, a new version by Mike Poulton
Believed by many to be Ibsen’s dramatic masterpiece, Rosmersholm presents a portrait of idealism and democracy floundering in a society of conservatism and opportunism.  Johannes Rosmer has resigned as parish priest following the death of his wife.  But his increasingly liberal ideas make him an object of suspicion to the local worthies who also disapprove of the presence in his house of a much younger woman.  
 
UNITED PLAYERS OF VANCOUVER

April 29 - May 21

THE LAST OCCUPANT OF TROY
by Andrew Templeton

MACHINE FAIR

Jun 3 – 26
Preview: Jun 2 ($8.00) Opening: Jun 2
Talkback: Jun 9

Western Canadian Première
OUR CLASS
by Tadeusz Slobodzianek, English version by Ryan Craig
Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek confronts his country’s involvement in the atrocities of the last century and follows the one-time classmates – amidst the weddings, parades, births, deaths, emigrations and reconciliations – into the next.  This is Poland, 1925.  A group of schoolchildren, Jewish and Catholic, declare their ambitions but as the children grow up their country is torn apart.  Internal grievances deepen as fervent nationalism develops.

UNITED PLAYERS OF VANCOUVER

June 8- 22

TO KEEP HER COMPANY
by Charles Siegal