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Belfry releases full line up for its annual SPARK Festival.
Highlights include spoken word artist Shane Koyczan and a critically acclaimed production of Goodness (“one of the best shows of the last decade” Now Magazine).
The Belfry Theatre full line up of
productions and free events for its annual SPARK Festival. From March 12
- 25, SPARK features over 70 shows and events from local, national and
international artists. Highlights include:
> Volcano’s critically acclaimed production of Goodness;
> a new performance piece, When I Was A Kid, from spoken word artist and Olympic sensation, Shane Koyczan;
> the world premiere of Kitt & Jane from Victoria’s SNAFU Dance Theatre;
> Anita Majumdar’s Bollywood comedy, Fish Eyes.
SPARK marks the return of free miniplays at the Belfry. This year’s
crop features new work from Dave Morris, Missie Peters, Justin Carter,
Krystal Cook, Mercedes Bátiz-Benét and Judd Palmer (from Calgary’s Old
Trout Puppet Workshop).
Ten-year-old actors, Similkameen O’Rourke and Rayn Cook-Thomas, will be starring in two separate miniplays.
Starting each week of the festival will be free readings of new plays: The Book of Eve (March 12), and My Memory’s Not So Good, a new piece from Theatre SKAM (March 19).
Home is a Beautiful Word,
a new play by Joel Bernbaum that the Belfry has commissioned, will have
free public readings on March 20 and 24 at the Belfry.
On March 23 at 2 pm, we will be holding a free public reading of Home is a Beautiful Word at Our Place, 919 Pandora Avenue. Talkback sessions with the show’s creators will follow each reading.
Students enrolled in the Belfry’s high school program, Belfry 101, will
write, rehearse and create a new show during the second week of SPARK
and perform it, one time only, the final night of the festival.
The Belfry is offering a number of workshops including lighting design,
play creation and a special Bollywood dance class led by Anita
Majumdar. Space in the workshops is very limited and participants must
register in advance at 250-385-6815.
Tickets for SPARK’s Mainstage and Studio shows are $20 (Adults), $15
(University and College Students) and $10 (High School Students) and can
be booked online at www.belfry.bc.ca/tickets or 250-385-6815.
The Belfry is offering a SPARK Pass for $72 (four vouchers that can be
used in any combination for the Mainstage and Studio shows). Passes are
aviailable at 250-385-6815.
THE YOU SHOW – Giving local emerging artists a push
Jan – May 2012, Monthly @ Intrepid Theatre Club
Intrepid Theatre is pleased to announce the 2012 YOU SHOW season, running from January through May 2012 at the Intrepid Theatre Club, which kicks off with Cougar Annie Tales on Jan 21 at 8pm. This new work by local singer Katrina Kadoski and the Other Guys Theatre Co. looks at the life of the legendary West Coast settler Cougar Annie, who lived in a Clayoquot coastal rainforest and earned her reputation by shooting 70 of the animals.
The YOU SHOW, organized by Intrepid Theatre, started out in 2010 as a humble new-work incubator project and has turned into a thriving program that heralds Victoria's most exciting new independent theatre creators. The program has presented 10 new plays-in-development to date, including Justin Carters' Son of Africville (which went on to become a hit Uno Fest show and has been picked up by theatre producers to tour the Maritimes) and Ingrid Hansen's Little Orange Man (the Canadian Fringe circuit hit that won ‘Pick of the Fringe’ in Vancouver and Victoria, and is slated for a run at the Vancouver Playhouse).
2012 YOU SHOW SEASON
March 10, 8pm: Scrumpy Productions presents a workshop staging of Julian Cervello’s (Canterbury Cocktails, Fringe 2011) new one-man show The Wyf of Bathe. Of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, none are more accessible than the Wife of Bathe. Performed entirely in its original Middle English, this raunchy and explicit, yet deeply moving 600-year-old comedy about the life of a Medieval woman named Alisoun demonstrates how timeless the structure of a ‘contemporary one-woman show’ really is. The original desperate housewife of the English theatre was written and acted by Chaucer himself, and she is still recognizable today.
April 21, 8pm: Mad Actress, by Marina Lagace. A one-woman show about actress Vivian Leigh and her struggles with bipolar and to define the line between her on-screen roles and off-screen identity.
May 12, 8pm: Andrew Wade directs a staged reading of his first full-length, two act play, The Romantics. Andrew is becoming a well-known local Fringe performer (William vs. the World, Fringe 2011) and this script won the Vancouver Young Playwrights award.
Read more about past YOU SHOWs here: http://www.metrostudiotheatre.com/intrepidclub/the-you-show-archives/
Intrepid Theatre
Jan – Apr 2012, Metro Studio
L’Orchestre d’Hommes-Orchestres
The 2012 Season includes some unmissable cutting edge theatre including Quebec City’s L’Orchestre d’Hommes-Orchestres (The One Man Band-Band) with their powerful tribute to the world of Tom Waits, in which six frenzied musicians use nearly 100 objects and invented instruments – from teacups to turkey-basters – to create madcap scenes of unbridled energy. Believe us, you’ve never seen Tom Waits performed like this.
“A grandiose spectacle of audacity and multidisciplinary magic.” – Voir Estrie
At the Metro Studio, March 25, 2012. Tickets $26 – on sale soon through ticketrocket.org. This presentation is made possible through the support of Canada Arts Council.
“A playful and poetic little jewel” all the way from Belgium, La Compagnie Chaliwaté’s Joséphina is a shockingly beautiful, sexy, funny, and mysterious piece of physical theatre about a man and a woman: a woman who is both absent and omnipresent. Is it the story of a perfect, passionate couple, or a shattered one? Between reality and fantasy the body and the word come together in a very intimate fashion, allowing poetic shifts and entanglements, and comical changes in direction in a moving and mysterious story of obsession, love and loss.
At the Metro Studio, March 21 & 22, 2012. Tickets $22/$17 (adult/student & senior), on sale soon through ticketrocket.org.
“A bright, hip show, complex and satisfying.” – LA Times
A young Japanese girl is diagnosed with leukemia nine years after Hiroshima. Determined to live, she folds origami cranes, a symbol of hope. Across the Pacific in Canada, a young boy believes that there’s nothing he can do to stop an inevitable nuclear war.
This beautifully crafted story performed in Japanese with English surtitles by Bunkaza theatre company (Tokyo), weaves together these twin stories looking at the implications and fallout of nuclear war.
At the Metro Studio, February 16+17, 2012. Tickets $22/$17 (adult/student & senior), on sale soon through http://www.ticketrocket.org/.
February
21, 2012: Victoria’s
Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre launches its fourth summer season of classic theatre
at the McPherson Playhouse with an announcement of it casting choices for its
upcoming May-August season.
Blue Bridge
continues with the tradition of featuring North America`s most highly regarded performers,
with season highlights including the incomparable Nicola Cavendish (as Shirley
Valentine), film and theatre star and aboriginal activist Gary Farmer (Dead Man), jazz and blues legend Jeff
Jones and the return of actors of the stature as Amanda Lisman, Dylan Smith,
Thea Gill, David Ferry and Brian Linds.
Brian
Richmond, Producing Artistic Director of Blue Bridge, is predicting that 2012
will be the season that will mark the arrival of one of B.C.’s leading acting
ensembles at Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre. First up will be a special
presentation of Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine, followed by the previously
announced productions of George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man, John
Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s plant
musical Little Shop of Horrors.
Featuring
the talents of several of the directors, designers and actors who have
established the reputation of this exciting, multi-award winning professional
theatre, the 2012 Season also continues with the Blue Bridge tradition of
providing significant creative opportunities to some of Victoria’s and B.C.’s most exciting young theatre artists.
“To have an
established acting company that is capable of tackling the great plays of North
America and Europe has been a dream of ours since the beginning of Blue Bridge.
This season marks the deepening and maturing of this dream,” Richmond said.
Known for his long history of creating innovative theatre, developing new work,
and attracting remarkable artists who share his ethos of placing the work of
the actor front and centre, Richmond re-emphasized that the soul of Blue Bridge
Rep lies in its ability to provide “a home for classic plays and a theatre
where our country’s finest young talent can develop by being provided with
opportunities to work alongside artists of exceptional stature.”
THE 2012 BLUE BRIDGE REPERTORY
THEATRE SEASON:
1 COMEDY, 1 FARCE, 1 DRAMA, AND 1
MAN-EATING MUSICAL
1. New! Special presentation of
SHIRLEY VALENTINE starring Nicola Cavendish, May 14-20
Directed by former Belfry Theatre Artistic Director, Roy Surette, Willy Russell’s one woman tour-de-force has had Canadian audiences howling with laughter since it premiered over twenty years ago and has established its star Nicola Cavendish as one of Canada’s national treasures. Featuring a creative team that includes Anne Séquin Poirier on set, Phillip Clarkson on costumes, Harry Frehner on lights and Peter Cerone on sound, this production comes to Victoria straight from the Manitoba Theatre Centre and Theatre Calgary where it again played to rave reviews and sold-out audiences.
Directed by former Belfry Theatre Artistic Director, Roy Surette, Willy Russell’s one woman tour-de-force has had Canadian audiences howling with laughter since it premiered over twenty years ago and has established its star Nicola Cavendish as one of Canada’s national treasures. Featuring a creative team that includes Anne Séquin Poirier on set, Phillip Clarkson on costumes, Harry Frehner on lights and Peter Cerone on sound, this production comes to Victoria straight from the Manitoba Theatre Centre and Theatre Calgary where it again played to rave reviews and sold-out audiences.
2. ARMS AND THE MAN starring Dylan
Smith, Amanda Lisman and Thea Gill, June
5-17
Next, another former Belfry Artistic Director, Glynis Leyshon will direct George Bernard Shaw’s witty ‘make love not war farce’ Arms and the Man. Fresh from his role as the co-star to, and understudy of, the Kim Catrall and Paul Gross led Broadway production of Blithe Spirit, this production will mark the return to Blue Bridge of actor Dylan Smith who played Jacques in Blue Bridge’s inaugural production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Joining him in the role of Raina will be one of the Stratford Festival’s leading actress Amanda Lisman and Queer As Folk star Thea Gill in the role of Louka. They will be joined by Jay Hindle in the role of Sergius, Brian Linds in the role of Major Petkoff, Christine Willes in the role of Catherine Petkoff and Jacob Richmond as Nicola. Set and costumes will be designed by Nathan Brown, lights by Giles Hogya and sound by Brian Linds.
Next, another former Belfry Artistic Director, Glynis Leyshon will direct George Bernard Shaw’s witty ‘make love not war farce’ Arms and the Man. Fresh from his role as the co-star to, and understudy of, the Kim Catrall and Paul Gross led Broadway production of Blithe Spirit, this production will mark the return to Blue Bridge of actor Dylan Smith who played Jacques in Blue Bridge’s inaugural production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Joining him in the role of Raina will be one of the Stratford Festival’s leading actress Amanda Lisman and Queer As Folk star Thea Gill in the role of Louka. They will be joined by Jay Hindle in the role of Sergius, Brian Linds in the role of Major Petkoff, Christine Willes in the role of Catherine Petkoff and Jacob Richmond as Nicola. Set and costumes will be designed by Nathan Brown, lights by Giles Hogya and sound by Brian Linds.
3. OF MICE AND MEN starring Gary
Farmer and David Ferry, July 3-15
Director Brian Richmond will again join forces with long time collaborators and actors Gary Farmer (best known for his co-starring role alongside Johnny Depp in Jim Jarmusch’s film Dead Man) and veteran actor David Ferry. Farmer will play Lennie and Ferry George as they and the highly talented cast and creative team create a new production of John Steinbeck’s towering masterpiece, Of Mice and Men. Set during the 1930’s American Depression, they will be joined by a highly talented cast that includes well-known local actor Brian Linds as Candy, Sebastien Archibald as Whit, Michael Armstrong as Carlson, Ashley O’Connell as Curly and Samantha Richard as Curly’s Wife. Pacific Opera Victoria’s Director of Artistic Administration Ian Rye will design the set, Patricia Reilley the costumes and Rebekah Johnson the lights.
Director Brian Richmond will again join forces with long time collaborators and actors Gary Farmer (best known for his co-starring role alongside Johnny Depp in Jim Jarmusch’s film Dead Man) and veteran actor David Ferry. Farmer will play Lennie and Ferry George as they and the highly talented cast and creative team create a new production of John Steinbeck’s towering masterpiece, Of Mice and Men. Set during the 1930’s American Depression, they will be joined by a highly talented cast that includes well-known local actor Brian Linds as Candy, Sebastien Archibald as Whit, Michael Armstrong as Carlson, Ashley O’Connell as Curly and Samantha Richard as Curly’s Wife. Pacific Opera Victoria’s Director of Artistic Administration Ian Rye will design the set, Patricia Reilley the costumes and Rebekah Johnson the lights.
4. LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS starring
Sara-Jeanne Hosie, Kholby Whardell and Jeff Jones, July 31 – August 12
Finally, the highly talented creative team behind the hit Canadian and New York-bound musical Ride The Cyclone, will team up to give their interpretation of one of the most successful musicals in Off-Broadway history, Alan Menken’s and Howard Ashman’s Little Shop of Horrors. Director Jacob Richmond, Music Director, Brooke Maxwell and Choreographer Treena Stubel have assembled a multi-talented cast that includes Sara-Jeanne Hosie as Audrey (who Victoria audiences will remember for her role in the Belfry Theatre’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Cyclone star Kholby Wardell as Seymour and in the role of the voice of the plant, blues and jazz legend Jeff Jones (who has sung with a host of music industry legends such as The Count Basie and Lionel Hampton Orchestras, Helen Reddy and many, many more). Rounding out the cast are Chris Mackie in the role of the Dentist, Damon Calderwood as Mushnik, Kelly Hudson as Ronnette, Jana Morrison as Chrystal and Sara Carle as Chiffon. Set and costumes will be designed by Blue Bridge regular Patrick DuWors with lights by Rebekah Johnson.
Finally, the highly talented creative team behind the hit Canadian and New York-bound musical Ride The Cyclone, will team up to give their interpretation of one of the most successful musicals in Off-Broadway history, Alan Menken’s and Howard Ashman’s Little Shop of Horrors. Director Jacob Richmond, Music Director, Brooke Maxwell and Choreographer Treena Stubel have assembled a multi-talented cast that includes Sara-Jeanne Hosie as Audrey (who Victoria audiences will remember for her role in the Belfry Theatre’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Cyclone star Kholby Wardell as Seymour and in the role of the voice of the plant, blues and jazz legend Jeff Jones (who has sung with a host of music industry legends such as The Count Basie and Lionel Hampton Orchestras, Helen Reddy and many, many more). Rounding out the cast are Chris Mackie in the role of the Dentist, Damon Calderwood as Mushnik, Kelly Hudson as Ronnette, Jana Morrison as Chrystal and Sara Carle as Chiffon. Set and costumes will be designed by Blue Bridge regular Patrick DuWors with lights by Rebekah Johnson.
Blue Passes
to the regular 3 play season and single ticket vouchers to Shirley Valentine
are on sale now and can be purchased at the Blue Bridge office at # 3 Fan Tan
Alley – 6th floor, Victoria, BC from Monday to Friday 9:30 am-5:30
pm or by calling (250) 385-4462. All performances are held at the McPherson
Playhouse.
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| January 24 – February 26, 2012 by Michele Riml |
on the edge
World Premiere
Three women from three very different walks of life. One actress in a tour de force performance. With great humour, and greater empathy, the author of Sexy Laundry gives voice to three ordinary souls, challenged by the world around them. A surprising and magical encounter offers the possibility of hope and fulfillment, in this moving testament to womanhood, humanity and life.
Starring Susinn McFarlen
Director Andrew McIlroy Set Designer Kevin McAllister Costume Designer Erin Macklem Lighting Designer Bryan Kenney Sound Designer Noah Drew Stage Manager Kim Charleen Smith
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SIN CITY
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THE LIVE IMPROVISED SOAP OPERA SEASON TWO: CARNIES
Produced by Broad Theatrics Live Direction by Ian Ferguson
Musical Director Grayson Walker Technical Director Theodore R. Sherman
VICTORIA EVENT CENTRE 1415 Broad Street Victoria, B.C.
Weekly Tuesday nights at 8pm
Oct. 18 Preview ~ Oct. 25 Opening
Nov.1, 8, 15, 22, 28*, Dec. 6, 13, 20
No shows Nov.29, Dec. 27, Jan 3, 10
Continues Tuesdays January 17 to April 17 - 2012
Tickets: $15/12 cash only at the door OR $12/10 in advance from Ticket Rocket
Carny Punch Card 6 admissions, can be shared $60
Sideshow Season Pass (non - transferable) $180
Ticket Rocket 250-590-6291 http://www.ticketrocket.org/ Show info 250-480-3709 info @sincityimprov.com http://www.sincityimprov.com/
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PLAY 4: Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Sylvia Rhodes
March 7 - March 24, 2012
“Haunting… a stunning new play…” The New York Times
Secrets, deceptions, and betrayals abound in the Irish backwater of Leenane. Oppressive, fier Mag will stop at nothing in her attempts to keep her long-suffering daughter, Maureen, from leaving home and finding love. Suspense interweaves with high drama and black comedy in this
four-time award-winning West End and Broadway hit.
PLAY 5: 1959 Pink Thunderbird Convertible: Two One-Act Plays
*Laundry and Bourbon by James McLure
Directed by Heather Jarvie
*Lone Star by James McLure
Directed by Paul Terry
April 25 - May 12, 2012
“An uproarious comedy…” New York Times
Lone Star… Outside a small town Texas bar, Roy regales his brother, Ray, with stories about his three loves: his country, his wife, and his beloved 1959 pink Thunderbird convertible.
Laundry and Bourbon… Bourbon and gossip flow freely while Elizabeth waits for her wayward husband, Roy, with friends Hattie and Amy Lee. As the bottle empties, past indiscretions and present fears bubble to the surface.
PLAY 6: The Foreigner by Larry Shue
Directed by Toshik Bukowiecki
June 13 - June 30, 2012
“… a constant invitation to laugh at the foolishness of life.” Variety.
What will people say to your face if they think you cannot understand a word of their language?
Larry Shue’s two-time Obie Award-winning farce with a big heart, answers this question in a hilarious two hours of challenges overcome, evil plans thwarted, and good intentions eventually triumphant
The Department of Theatre is housed in the Phoenix building located on the southwest of the UVic campus. Constructed in 1982, the Phoenix building is considered to be one of the finest teaching and performance facilities in Canada. At its heart are three distinct stage forms used for mainstage productions, SATCo productions and classrooms.
Roger Bishop Theatre: A proscenium theatre with a 208 seat capacity.
Chief Dan George Theatre: A thrust theatre with 194 seat capacity
Barbara McIntyre Studio: A black box flexible studio space with moveable bleachers and average seating of 80 persons (depending on staging).
The Department of Theatre @ UVic is proud to present another season of innovative, wide-ranging theatre you won't find anywhere else in Victoria.
Eurydice
February 16 -25, 2012
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by MFA Candidate, Jeffrey Pufahl
Award winning playwright Sarah Ruhl boldly reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its quirky heroine, Eurydice. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice journeys into the Mad-Hatter realm of the underworld where she is reunited with her long lost father. Here, she struggles to recall fading memories of her life as both a bride and a daughter. Infused with the melancholy music of Orpheus, Eurydice is a swim through the idiosyncratic stream of the unconscious – magical, a little menacing, but definitely compelling!
THE MAROWITZ HAMLET
March 15-24, 2012
By William Shakespeare & Charles Marowitz
Guest Director Charles Marowitz
What if one were to cut Shakespeare's masterpiece up into individual lines and piece it back together to tell the story anew? This would be a Marowitz play. Synonymous to a contemporary "mash-up," Marowitz doesn't re-write Shakespeare, but uses the existing lines to bring new insight to speeches and characters' motives. An acclaimed playwright, director and critic, Marowitz has worked closely with the Royal Shakespeare Company, co-founded Encore Magazine and is a regular contributor to The New York Times, The London Times, Theater Week, and American Theater.
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| Contact Kaleidoscope TheatreKaleidoscope Theatre Productions 3130 Jutland Rd Victoria, BC Canada V8T 2T3 T: 250.383-8124 Toll-Free: 800.811.5777 Kaleidoscope Theatre Productions presents: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM McPherson Playhouse November 25, 26 & December 2, at 7pm November 26, 27 & December 3, at 2pm
An enchanted magical adventure through the forest where true love is discovered, magic and mischief prevail, and adventure is around every corner. Imaginations take flight in this world premiere adaptation of Shakespeare’s most popular play.
Dare to dream with Kaleidoscope Theatre and Shakespeare’s most popular and timeless play - a holiday treat for the whole family.
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