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2008 - 2009
Productions
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JERICHO ARTS CENTRE
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2008
September 5 – September 28
Preview: September 3 ($6.00) Opening: September 4
Talkback: September 11
Canadian Premiere
CORAM BOY by Jamila Gavin, adapted by Helen Edmundson
Director: Bernard Cuffling
Dramatised from Jamila Gavin’s Whitbread Award-winning novel set in 18th century England, Coram Boy is a tale of two cities, Gloucester and London and a tale of two orphans at the Coram Hospital for Foundling Children. Toby was saved from an African slave ship and Aaron is the abandoned son of the heir to a great estate. It is also the story of fathers and sons: slave-trader Otis and his son Meshak, and Sir William Ashbrook and the son he disinherits. Dastardly villains, cold-hearted aristocrats, devoted friends and passionate lovers all play a role in this rich, almost gothic, drama.
United Players of Vancouver |
September 24
ODISSI INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE
Sitara Thobani
Sitara 604-913-4368 |
September 29 - October 4
BEYOND THE FRINGE 2008
| OCTOBER 2 |
7pm |
The Shakespeare Show |
9pm |
Putz |
| OCTOBER 3 |
7pm |
Putz |
9pm |
Mr. Fox |
| OCTOBER 4 |
7pm |
Mr. Fox |
9pm |
Crude Love |
| OCTOBER 5 |
7pm |
Crude Love |
9pm |
The Shakespeare Show |
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MR. FOX
Written and performed by Greg Landucci.
Directed by TJ Dawe
Mr. Fox is about a young man's dream of being a rock radio morning man, his superior training in radio school, and his unwitting rise in the mascot world. What happens when the dreams of your youth fade away and new opportunities (which are not your dreams) are presented? MR. FOX will answer this, don't worry.
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PUTZ
Directed by Jacob Richmond (Legoland)
Scrupulosity’s Andrew Bailey has a best friend who comes out to him as a lesbian and a psychiatrist who orders him to start dating. Then things get kinda weird. “One of the best shows of the Fringe….It’s impossible not to be swept up by Bailey’s humour, compassion and honesty.” -See Magazine, Edmonton.
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THE SHAKESPEARE SHOW
Or; How an illiterate son of a Glover became the Greatest Playwright in the World (2008)
Written by Ryan Gladstone
Directed by Karen Hamm
Featuring Tara Travis and Ryan Gladstone
How did an illiterate Glovers son from the country become the greatest playwright in the history of the world? He got someone else to write the plays! A Tragical History and Lamentable Comedy!
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CRUDE LOVE
Big Smoke Productions
Written and Performed by Gillian Bennett and Russell Bennett
Directed and Dramaturged by Emelia Symington Fedy
CRUDE LOVE is an unlikely love story between Phyllis McCormack, a woman dump truck driver from Newfoundland, and Abbie Waxman, a lone, ex-Greenpeace eco-warrior set in the harsh Alberta Tar Sands. The time is set in 2012, when the US Military occupies northern Alberta, and when peak oil and peak love collide.
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Vancouver Fringe Festival
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October 10 - NOVEMBER 1
Preview: October 9
Tuesday-Sunday, 8:00pm
BY SOME DIVINE MISTAKE by Joan Bryans
Directed by Joan Bryans
The story of Alma Rattenbury. Femme fatale, songstress and.......murderer?
Vital Spark theatre
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Oct 27
SONGS IN THE KEY OF EEK!
Jubilate! Chamber Choir
Halloween Concert.
Jim Colbert 604-202-0605
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November 14 – December 7
Preview: November 13 ($6.00) Opening: November 14
Talkback: November 20
THE CIRCLE by Somerset Maughan
Director: Adam Henderson
The Circle gives an ironic twist to the conflict between romance and responsibility as represented by two generations of the same wealthy family. Arnold Champion-Cheney has never forgotten, or ceased to resent, his mother’s elopement thirty years ago with Lord Porteous. Cheney is an ambitious politician with a beautiful young wife in whom he has proprietary pride. Home from their long exile come his mother Lady Kitty and her lover. With Arnold’s father living nearby, the visit promises to be fraught with embarrassment but instead becomes extremely amusing. What Lady Kitty at once notices is that history is repeating itself!
United Players of Vancouver |
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December 11 - 23
The Merry Adventures of the Nutcracker by Bert Garskof
Director: Julia Henderson
This musical adaptation of the Christmas classic. An ideal treat for 3-10 year-olds.
So Suite Productions
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December 14 (at 7:30pm)
A JAZZY CHRISTMAS
With Saxalamode.
Concert featuring tangos by Astor Piazzolla, lots of Jazz standards and being that time of the year, jazzy renditions of Christmas carols.
The Saxalamode Sax quartet is composed of four musicians who share a love of Jazz and chamber music. Colin Maskell, alto and soprano sax and Kevin Shan, tenor sax are both graduates of Capilano University’s jazz program, Bruce Norris, baritone sax, has been a long time staple on Vancouver’s R & B scene and recently backed up Wayne Newton at the River Rock Casino. Victor Guy, the leader of the group, graduated with his Bachelor of music and Master in Music Ed from UBC and is performing in numerous ensembles on both alto and baritone sax and on clarinet.
Victor Guy 604 924-3359 |
2009
January 7 - 10
The Musical of Musicals, the Musical!
Music by Eric Rockwell, Lyrics by Joanne Bogart
This a musical about musicals! In this hilarious satire, one story becomes five, each written in the distinctive style of a different master: Rodgers & Hammerstein, set in Kansas in August, complete with a dream ballet; Sondheim, featuring the landlord as a tortured artistic genius who slashes the throats of his tenants in revenge for not appreciating his work; Jerry Herman, as a splashy star vehicle; Andrew Lloyd Webber, a rock musical with themes borrowed from Puccini; and Kander & Ebb, set in a speakeasy in Chicago.
Original Broadway website with reviews: www.musicalofmusicals.com
Fighting Chance Productions
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January 23 – February 15
Preview: January 22 ($6.00) Opening: January 23
Talkback: January 29
Vancouver Premiere
THERE CAME A GYPSY RIDING by Frank McGuinness
Director: M. Alison Raine
The McKenna family gathers at their remote holiday home in the west of Ireland to mark the twenty-first birthday of their late son Gene. Cousin Bridget appears along the causeway, inviting herself for birthday cake and conversation, ready to expose a family secret. Even the powerful personalities of Gene’s parents can’t hold things together in the face of an unexpected visit from the past. There Came a Gypsy Riding premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London, in January 2007.
United Players of Vancouver |
January 26 - February 11, Mon - Wed
THE LAST FIVE YEARS by Jason Robert Brown
Director: Chris Robson
Broadway Musical
A fresh and contemporary musical from Tony-Award winning composer Jason Robert Brown, The Last Five Years chronicles a young couple's romance in a new and exciting way: her story starts at the end of their relationship and moves backward; his begins on the day they met, and runs to the end. Funny and uplifting, the show captures some of the most heartbreaking and universally felt moments of modern romance.
Naomi Dayneswood, Producer
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February 27 - March 14*
CORIOLANUS by William Shakespeare
Director: Jack Paterson.
Shakespeare's brilliant thriller of the fierce warrior brought low by the machinations of Roman politics and personal honor.
Coriolanus Equity Co-op |
April 6 - 22
tick tick BOOM by Jonathon Larson (creator of Rent)
Director: Ryan Mooney
Off-Broadway musical.
Fighting Chance Theatre |
April 3 - 26
Preview: April 2 ($6.00) Opening: April 3
Thu-Sun
Talkback: April 9
Canadian Premiere
THE INVENTION OF LOVE by Tom Stoppard
Director: C.W.Marshall
Tom Stoppard’s play delivers a powerful, intricate meditation on life, scholarship and the after-life in this brilliant play which has writer A.E. Housman (A Shropshire Lad) adrift on the River Styx, where he meets his younger Oxford University self, and reflects on a life lived in the shadow of Oscar Wilde. The often erudite dialogue dazzles with wit and humour.
United Players of Vancouver |
April 30 - May 23
36 VIEWS by Naomi Iizuka
Director: Anthony F. Ingram
An erotic game of love, greed and sleight-of-hand. Professional reputations and millions of dollars are at stake when an art dealer discovers what appears to be an ancient Asian artifact that threatens to turn the art world upside down. Forgery and fortune, culture and commodity, as well as personal and professional revenge are exposed in 36 Views.
“A multi-textured web . . . completely engrossing.” - San Francisco Chronicle.
Tempus Theatre
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June 5 – June 28
Preview: June 4 ($6.00) Opening: June 5
Talkback: June 11
Canadian Premiere
THE SOLDIERS' FORTUNE by Thomas Otway
Director: Michael Fera
It is 1680 Beaugard and Courtine return to London from wars abroad – empty handed and disenchanted. Beaugard hits on a brilliant scheme to improve their fortunes, involving Clarinda. Clarinda, she for her part, unhappily married to the aged, infatuated Sir Davy Dunce, concocts a plan to reverse her fortunes. Sir Jolly Jumble, one of the great portraits of wayward sexuality, sets about helping the lovers, thereby enhancing his own fortunes. This classic Restoration comedy by Thomas Otway is brutally, hilariously modern.
United Players of Vancouver |
July 15 - August 1
SALT WATER MOON
by David French
Director: Michael Fera
Hoarse Raven Theatre
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