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Vancouver Fringe Festival When & Where Sept 10-20; Oct 1-10; Oct 29-Nov 8, Nov 26-Dec 6 | Revue Stage, Performance Works, and the Waterfront Theatre, all situated on and around Granville Island. A Bard Buffet September
9,11,12,14,17,19, 2021 at The Revue Stage Everybody Knows Performance
Dates September 11,12,14,15,17,18, 2021 at The Revue Stage
When & Where Streamed on demand August 12 – September 30 , 2021 Director
Arthi Chandra Lighting design Harika
Zu Set design Pam Johnson Costume design Jessica
Oostergo Sound design/Composer Mishelle Cuttler Editor
Candelario Andrade Stage manager Joanne
P.B. Smoards Reviewer Elizabeth Paterson Done/Undone is a very clever and entertaining exposition of current issues in presenting and performing Shakespeare's plays .Kate Besworth, who grew up in Stratford in a theatrical family, has hacked through the thickets of Bardolatry, academic theory, cancel culture, actors' issues and audience reaction to discuss those aspects of Renaissance life that we now find so repugnant - chiefly misogyny, anti-Semitism, colonialism and racial superiority. She asks, 'should some of these plays not be performed today?' Full review
When & Where Wednesdays August 11, 18, 25, 2021 at 3pm & 7:30pm (Pacific) | Online streaming Director
C. Shyer Johnson Musical Director Jeremy Hoffman Choreographer
Ken Overly Lighting Design Vanka Salim Costume
Design Julie White Reviewer John Jane Pageant is a mildly entertaining musical spoof on those once oh-so-popular beauty contests. The show is part burlesque and part good-humoured satire. Set in Spokane, Washington in 1989, six “Natural Born Females” that represent distinct regions of the Unites States, compete for the title of Miss Glamouresse. Full review
United
Players WHEN & WHERE June 4 – 27, 2021 Thurs - Sat at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm | Jericho Arts Centre, 1675 Discovery St. and on-lin Director Lauren Taylor Lighting design Michael Methot Projection design Jacob Wan Set design Linda Begg Sound & video design Peacock Farm Productions Technical direction Leighton Taylor Stage manager Maria Denholme Helen Evangela Kepinsky Niall Matt Loop Robbie Ishan Sandhu Gemma Jessica Wong Child Kieran Dhadwal Reviewer Elizabeth Paterson Is happiness a fleeting
moment which quickly passes into the humdrum continuum or a state of
mind ripe with possibilities? How far will we go to achieve our aim,
whether trying to sell a product or saving a beloved child’s life?
Glenn Waldron explores these questions in a dark and enigmatic comedy. Coldwater
Communications Directors
Caitlin Styker & Carmel Amit Reviewer
John Jane Bartlett
has created an interesting and provocative triangle with John, the only
character referred to by name, at the centre.
WHEN & WHERE May 6 - 8, 2021 at 7.30pm; May 9 at 12pm |
streamed live from the Historic Theatre Director
Chelsea Haberlin Assistant Director Kelsey
Kanatan Wavey Costume Designer Carmen Alatorre Set
and Prop Designer Drew Facey Assistant Set and Prop
Designer Stephanie Wong Lighting Designer
Andrew Pye Projection Designer Candelario Andrade Composer/Sound
Designer Marc Stewart Reviewer
John Jane The
Boy in the Moon is a three-handed, single act play developed from
Canadian journalist Ian Brown’s series of Globe and Mail articles
that deals with his son Walker's rare genetic disease, Cardiofaciocutaneous
Syndrome (CFC). The play is essentially a conversation between Brown
(Marcus Youssef) himself, and his wife Johanna Schneller (Meghan Gardiner).
Full review
WHEN
& WHERE April 16-17, 2021, 7.30pm & 2pm on April 18
| Online, partially live-streamed from the York Theatre Musicians
Khari Wendell McClelland, Gordon Grdina, Tanika Charles, Jeanette Reed
& Faye Mallett Spoken Word Performers
Cecily Nicholson, Hari Alluri, Mia Birdsong, Jarrett Martineau, Ashon
Crawley, Kathleen Gallagher, Andrew Kushnir, Harsha Walia & Seth
Klein Dancer Henry Seaweed
Reviewer
John Jane Detroit
native, now an adopted Canadian and a member of the gospel trio Sojourners,
Khari Wendell McClelland asks his audiences to think about what is essential.
He is joined on the York Theatre stage, in-person by international musicians
and virtually by some eclectic spoken word performers. Full
review When
& Where 26 March – 18 April 2021 | Jericho Arts Centre,
1675 Discovery, Vancouver Director
Laura McLean Technical Director Leighton Taylor Producer
Fran Burnside Lighting Design Mark Carter Set
Design R. Todd Parker Costume Design Julie
White Sound Design Nico Dicecco Stage Manager
Jonathon Paterson Cast
Henrietta Leavitt - Jenna Hill, Margaret Leavitt - Rebecca deBoer, Peter
Shaw - Karthik Kadam, Annie Cannon - Anna Bui, Williamina Fleming -
Rhona McCallum Lichtenwald Reviewer
John Jane The
play doesn’t just explore fact-based scientific matters, but also,
at least, it attempts to portray the subject’s human relationships.
Alas, Gunderson has to rely on her imagination to provide the characters
that define Leavitt not just as an aurally challenged workaholic, but
a woman who was spiritually passionate and dedicated to family and close
colleagues. Full review |
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Bard
on the Beach
Pageant:
A Musical Comedy Beauty Contest
book and lyrics by Bill Russell and Frank Kelly,
music by Albert Evans
