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The Rehearsal
Katherine Schlemmer
by Deborah Dunn
Ruby Slippers first production in 1989 was MUD: A Theatre Installation, which set Maria Irene Fornes' play in a unique gallery setting. This was followed quickly by Blackout: Six Short Pieces By Samuel Beckett, a very popular late-night offering which ran in

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The Queens
Pat Armstrong
photo by Deborah Dunn

repertory for two weeks at The Firehall Arts Centre. We then moved on to the Fringe and produced three pick-of-the Fringe hits: Men Inside by Eric Bogosian (performed entirely by women) in 1990, The Rehearsal by Dominic Champagne in 1991, and The Queens in 1992. These latter two plays gave rise to our ongoing interest in Quebecois theatre.

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The Angel of History Series
Deborah Dunn
photo by Diane Whelan
In October of 1993 we produced The Angel Of History Series at The Vancouver East Cultural Centre, two innovative eastern European plays that we staged in collaboration with a videographer and choreographer. In 1994 at The Women In View Festival we premiered Herotica, an evening of theatrical erotica by and for women.

___________ 1995/1996 ___________

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Herotica 2
Diane Brown and Mercedes Baines
photo by Deborah Dunn
Garnering much critical and popular acclaim, this production subsequently toured to Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille, and ran for three sold-out weeks at The Station Street Arts Centre in Vancouver. In 1995 we created a sequel, Herotica2, which toured to One Yellow Rabbits' High Performance Rodeo in Calgary in 1996 after a successful run in Vancouver. Other highlights from that season included Coyote Ugly by Lynn Siefert for which Allan Morgan won the Jessie for Best Supporting Actor.

___________ 1996/1997 ___________

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Serpent Kills
Marcus Youssef and
Mary Mancini
photo by Katrina Dunn

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Patagonia
Carmen Aguirre
Photo by Deborah Dunn
We began the 1996/97 season with a production of Blake Brooker and Jim Milans' Serpent Kills a unique Canadian dance/drama. In the spring of that season Ruby Slippers presented the Canadian premiere of a unique play development process created by Joint Stock, one of Britains leading political theatre companies of the 1970's and 80's.

Patagonia, by Karim Alrawi, was marked by its starkly original theatricality unrelenting political nature. Composer Andreas Kahre was nominated for a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for his stunning original sound score.

The biannual Brecht In The Park event plays the role of both a neighbourhood happening and a city-wide cultural event. Started in 1994 with Public Dreams, we first co-produced Courage In The Park, an outdoor epic staging of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. The production met with such enthusiasm that we then co-produced The Threepenny Opera in 1995.

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Threepenny Opera
Archer Pechawis
Photo by Lincoln Clarkes
Threepenny included over thirty-five performers and jazz ensemble Talking Pictures, and was nominated for four Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards and won for Outstanding Significant Achievement in Audience Development and Community Outreach. Both productions toured several Vancouver parks, presented FREE to the public and were highly praised for their artistic integrity and community-based philosophy.

Our other ongoing series is Acts Of Passion, an annual reading series of Quebecois plays produced with Pink Ink Theatre and Theatre La Seizieme. Also initiated in 1994, Acts Of Passion has exposed Vancouver audiences to some of Quebecs' most exciting theatre work, with special guest artists being flown out for workshops and lectures during the week-long event. Some of these leading Canadian artists include playwrights Normand Chaurette and Abla Faroud, translator Shelley Tepperman, French Canadian theatre expert and teacher Paul LeFebvre and internationally acclaimed writer/performer Pol Pelletier. Acts Of Passion not only offers Vancouver audiences the opportunity to experience Quebecs unique theatrical voice, it also affords those artists the opportunity to share and disseminate their work to fresh ears and minds This creates interest and dialogue, thus providing a link between the two cultures.

___________ 1997/1998 ___________

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Life During Wartime
Diane Brown
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Our 97/98 season saw the premiere of two bold new works! At the 1998 Women In View Festival Life During Wartime took audiences by storm. This ferocious dance/theatre piece focussed on subtle misogyny in polite society and was praised for its unapologetic and biting sense of satire. Later in the spring. Ruby Slippers premiered The Ruby Cabaret at The Vancouver East Cultural Centre. This potent collaboration with jazz ensemble Talking Pictures resulted in fourteen original songs, thirty vignettes. and many letters to the editor. Just what a successful cabaret should do.

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Our 1998/99 season was a resounding success. Ruby Slippers in collaboration with new co-producers Touchstone Theatre and Vancouver Moving Theatre produced their third installment of the Brecht In The Park series this summer. John Lazurus' adaptation of the Good Person of Setzuan premiered in August of 1998. Critics and audiences couldn't get enough as over 6000 people packed the parks at this wildly successful outdoor extravaganza.

The Good Person of Setzuan
The Good Person of Setzuan

Ruby Slippers co-production of The Good Person of Setzuan won many Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards including Best Production of the season.

Our fifth annual Acts Of Passion reading series of Quebecois plays, co-produced with Pink Ink Theatre and Theatre Le Seizieme, was produced in association with the UBC Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing. We flew out internationally acclaimed playwright Michel Marc Bouchard, translator Linda Gaboriau, and teacher/director Paul LeFebvre to partake in the week-long event. Our guests gave lectures to theatre and creative writing classes at UBC and SFU. Ruby Slippers also commissioned the English language translation of Bouchard's Le Chemin des Passes Dangereuses (Dangerous Passes Road) especially for the series, which was performed by Andrew Wheeler, Dean Paul Gibson, and Bob Frazer.

Winners.jpg - 3867 BytesIn the spring of last season, Ruby Slippers presented the English language Canadian premiere of Francois Archambaults' play The Winners at the Firehall Arts Centre April 9 - 18, 1999. The Winners was a fastpaced, sharply satirical exposé of the urban class, portrayed by a cast of characters who embrace the materialist paradigm even as they sense that it is morally and personally void. Featuring an original soundscore by Andreas Kahre, visual design by Tim Matheson, set design by David Roberts, and lighting design by Adrian Muir. The cast was made up of some of Vancouvers best actors: Scott Bellis, Kurt Max Runte, Laura Di Cicco, Tiffany Lyndall-Knight, Courtenay J. Stevens, Sarah Turner, and Bob Frazer. Francois himself flew out for opening night! The show was a critical and popular success.

The B.C. Arts Council supported our sponsor Carmen Aguirre and James Fagan Tait to write, rehearse and perform an adaptation for the stage of Walking Words by Eduardo Galeano. Thanks to the committee that made that recommendation, and congratulations to everyone involved in the project. Ruby Slippers was happy to be a sponsor.

Also, as part of the Playwrights Theatre Centre's New Play Festival, Ruby Slippers took part in All Together Now, a roundtable talk about the process of creating works collectively. Available members from the RubyCAB gang were on hand, along with The Electric Company and the gals from Mom's The Word, at The Festival Studio.

___________ 1999/2000 ___________

We kicked off the 1999/2000 season with our sixth and final installment of our Acts of Passion reading series featuring the hottest new work from the Quebec theatre scene. Co-produced with Pink Ink Theatre and Theatre la Seizieme in association with the UBC Department of Film, Theatre, and Creative Writing, Acts Of Passion was a week-long event which showcased cutting-edge works in the form of staged readings heightened by live original soundscores and slide designs. The event also offered lectures and informal discussions with our special guests from Quebec on and off the UBC campus. Ruby Slippers commissioned the English language translation from Robert Dickson of Jean Marc Dalpé's Trick Or Treat especially for the series. Our Passionate guests this year included translator Robert Dickson and playwright Larry Tremblay.

Our fund-HELL-raiser was a ton of fun, and a great success! Thank you to the media club, our board of directors, the participating performers, and all who came and supported the company.

Fund-hell-raiser

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Mercedes Bains,
Love Bites,
photo: Nick Seiflow

In February of 2000, an exciting new one-woman show made its production premiere! Ruby Slippers and La Luna Productions presented Love Bites, written and performed by Mercedes Baines. A live jazz band sets the stage for this musical storytelling of women grappling with love as skittery as scat, sassy as a sax solo and slippery as the slow rythms of a stand up bass.

Dorothy Dittrich was the musical director, and Stephane Kirkland directed this reverently irreverent romp to the land of love and intimacy. (La Luna is a project of View the Performing Arts Society.)

___________ 2000/2001 ___________

After a long creation process spanning eight months, we were proud to present to you the all-knew, all-original RubyCAB 2000. Created in collaboration with music ensemble Talking Pictures, this raucous evening of jazz cabaret picked up where our 1998 hit The Ruby Cabaret left off, ushering in the new millenium with enlightened, offensive, highly entertaining skits, songs and social satire. RubyCAB 2000 featured most of the original artists including Shawn Macdonald, Ian Ross McDonald, Dave MacKay, Diane Brown, Carmen Aguirre, Katrina Dunn and Talking Pictures jazz Ensemble. RubyCAB 2000 was a huge critical and popular success, and was invited to One Yellow Rabbit's High Performance Rodeo, a national festival of the best experimental theatre in Canada!

___________ 2001/2002 ___________

suckerfalls1.jpg - 11789 BytesThree of Vancouver's most innovative theatre companies combined to present an award-winning Brecht in the Park series, performed beneath the summer sky in three Vancouver Parks, in August, 2001. The event featured an original play with music, which though new, is still firmly rooted in the tradition of Brecht. Sucker Falls: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, was written by Canadian playwright Drew Hayden Taylor, with music by Ron Samworth, and directed by Diane Brown, Katrina Dunn and Savannah Walling.

Award-winning Ojibway playwright and humourist Drew Hayden Taylor wielded his satiric pen to great effect in this world premiere inspired by the Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill repertoire. A broad comedy peppered with haunting images and powerful songs, Sucker Falls told the story of the appearance and collapse of a First Nations casino. This epic musical featured all the spectacular elements that have wowed Brecht in the Park audiences in past years: stiltwalking, giant shadow play, and pyrotechnics lighting up the sky. Throughout the play a hot quartet cooked into the night with an original brew of country / cabaret songs and soundscapes, straight out of the pop culture Cuisinart.

The ensemble featured well-known Toronto actors Herbie Barnes, Monique Mojica, and Michelle St. John; local favourites Tasha Faye Evans, Kim Kondrashoff, Jacques Lalonde, Kevin Loring, and Ian Ross McDonald; spectacle performers Sharon Bayly, Laura Crema and Bessie Wapp; along with musicians Travis Baker, Joel Lower, and Dylan van der Schyff, led by Ron Samworth. The design team featured a set by Kate King, costumes by Rebekka Sorensen, spectacle elements by Rick Holloway, and pyrotechnics by Nancy Lee.

Down Dangerous Passes Road

Our English language world premiere production was presented at the The Belfry Theatre in Victoria in March 2002.

The Brothers
Peter Wilds, Donald Adams and Bob Frazer
PHOTO by inter.mission productions.

A haunting and poetic masterpiece by internationally renowned playwright Michel Marc Bouchard with translation by Linda Gaboriau. Ruby Slippers' Down Dangerous Passes Road featured the original fabulous design team of lighting by Adrian Muir, set and costumes by Kate King, soundscore by Yorrit Dijkstra, and visual design by Tim Matheson. The show also included the acting talents of Bob Frazer, Donald Adams and Peter Wilds.

Love Bites

lovebites.jpg - 4654 BytesAfter two years of development and one workshop production, Ruby Slippers in association with La Luna proudly presented the mainstage production of Love Bites written and performed by Mercedes Bains. A musical storytelling of women grappling with love and lust in an increasingly sexually confused society. Our play married live improvised jazz with spoken word poetry and live performance in various downtown Vancouver bars and nightclubs. Musicians Ron Samworth and friends teamed up with us to help heighten and explore the emotional and psychological fall-out of modern romance. Seen through the eyes of many female characters struggling with intimacy, Love Bites was a visceral, sensual, and engaging journey through our inner and outer battlefieds.

Directed by Diane Brown.

PHOTO: Nick Seiflow, actor: Mercedes Bains

___________ 2002/2003 ___________

The 2002/2003 season included the artistic residency of one of Vancouver's hottest young playwrights, Lucia Frangione, the premiere presentation of Karen Hines latest biting social satire (the third in her infamous Pochsy trilogy), and the premiere production of Drew McCreadies wickedly funny analysis of dysfunctional bliss.

In addition to these projects, Ruby Slippers is took part in the official Canadian Delegation attending the Six Stages Theatre Festival in Prague. We also met with several presenters, artists and Festival Directors across Europe to further expand our pool of collaborators and opportunities abroad and at home. CITIZEN POCHSY

In March 2003, Ruby Slippers (in association with The Firehall Arts Centre) presented the Canadian premiere of Karen Hines new play. The third in the cult-classic Pochsy Trilogy featuring the irrepressible Karen Hines, CITIZEN POCHSY was described as “an apocalyptic vision of Betty Boop with the face of Clara Bow and the heart of Joan Crawford.”

A dynamic collision between Dante's Inferno and Pochsy's day timer, Citizen Pochsy comically mines the treacherous territory of contemporary citizenship.

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Ruby Slippers Theatre proudly produced the premiere production of local playwright Drew McCreadie's black comedy, The Cat Who Ate Her Husband at the Firehall Arts Centre.

This dark sexual satire offered merciless insights into the secret fears and fantasies of six sheltered suburbanites. It was directed by Diane Brown.

lucia.jpg - 3384 BytesRuby Slippers developed a new work with Playwright Lucia Frangione over the course of the season. Three dramaturgical workshops with Rachel Ditor culminated in a public reading with professional actors in July of 2003. Ruby Slippers has scheduled the premiere production in the fall of 2003.

The working title of the project is M-M-M.

Mod is the icon child product of Marilyn Monroe and the grand daughter of Mae West. She is at a crisis point in her life. She has to choose between a career in the fashion industry as a top world model or accept NASA's offer, and her growing intolerance of wheat is taking up far too much of her energy with food preparation. She's addicted to Yoga, allergic to oxygen, can't find her G spot, and has a boyfriend who refuses to support her lesbian explorations. These conflicts lead to a deconstruction of feminine ideals from the last century, and a wishlist for the next as she attempts to carve out her own sexual identity.

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Shopping and Fucking Ruby Slippers Theatre and Pi Theatre co-produced the Western Canadian premiere production of Shopping and Fucking by Mark Ravenhill. Described as “a searing, intelligent, disturbing satirical dialogue”, this cutting-edge drama of disenchantment bowled over audiences across Europe and Russia. A ruthless and surprisingly hilarious indictment of consumerism and violence in our society, Shopping and Fucking explores the desensitization of the disenfranchised twenty-something generation.

Le Noirceur

Ruby Slippers Theatre, with the Firehall Arts Centre, co-presented the Western Canadian premiere presentation of Marie Brassard's haunting and sensual Le Noirceur. Le Noirceur featured Brassard, a protege of Robert LePage, sharing the stage with another actor / dancer and a musician. The three explored friendship in a story about a little girl killed by a car. Intimate, personal and highly refined, the piece induces a very direct rapport with the audience.

03-mmm-pic.jpg - 6274 BytesRuby Slippers presented MMM, written by Lucia Frangione, with music by Jim Hodgkinson, directed by Diane Brown, with dramaturge Rachel Ditor.

When sex icon Mod released her first pop album Jam This Up Yours, she was the toast of the town. Now she's dry toast, with a career tits up and assets drooping. We joined Mod, Mae and Marilyn for too many martinis as we traversed a century of feminine identity through a family of battling sex icons.

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___________ 2004/2005 ___________

Denise ClarkeIn November of 2004 Ruby Slippers and The Firehall Arts Centre presented the premiere of A Fabulous Disaster, starring and created by Denise Clarke.

A tragic comedy of dire warnings and light hearted musings drawing on all things opposite - Denise Clarke has given up and is ready to go. Clarke bought sharply drawn observations and glorious physical response together in a strange but beautiful and funny little show about the whole world and one person in it. Denise Clarke is known for her solo work and for her long-time association with One Yellow Rabbit. Last season she brought her theatre/dance piece Sign Language to Vancouver, and the season before was part of the OYR ensemble in Dream Machine also in Vancouver.

04waitingroom.jpg - 3778 BytesIn March 2005 Ruby Slippers Theatre and Studio 58 presented the Western Canadian Premiere of The Waiting Room, by Lisa Loomer, directed by Diane Brown at Studio 58, Langara College

Sets by Yvan Morissette Lights by Itai Erdal, costumes by Sheila White, sound and visuals by David Hudgins, featuring Scott Bellis, Beatrice Zeilinger and Allan Zinyk along with the senior students of Studio 58

Wanda, a modern New Jersey gal, is having problems with breast implants. Victoria, a tightly corseted Victorian, is waiting to have her ovaries removed. Forgiveness, a wealthy 18th century Chinese woman with bound feet, is waiting to have her toe re-attached. The Waiting Room examines the balance of power between men and women, eastern and western cultures and conventional and unorthodox medicine. Lisa Loomer's ironic comedy asks - at what cost beauty?

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___________ 2005/2006 ___________

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Ruby Slippers presented a repeat performance of Denise Clarke's A Fabulous Disaster in November of 2005 at the Firehall Arts Centre.

RUBY06-1.jpg - 15496 BytesRuby Slippers presented The Leisure Society in March 2006. Penthouse view, fine wine, great food, old friends ...What more could you want?

Ruby Slippers Theatre's production of The Leisure Society was nominated for FIVE Jessie Richardson Theatre awards, and won for Outstanding Production and Outstanding Direction (Diane Brown) at the 2006 Awards Ceremony at The Commodore Ballroom.

"One hell of a show."
Eye Weekly

"A vicious, erotically charged spectacle full of cynical disdain and gripping pathos."
Montreal Gazette

"The Leisure Society is a dark, twisted and brilliant take on modern marriage ... It is a play that will no doubt arouse deep-seated discussions and thought."
Calgary Sun

Read more reviews

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___________ 2006/2007 ___________

07banger.jpg - 8831 BytesIn September Ruby Slippers Theatre and the Firehall Arts Centre present the world premiere of bANGER: the power hour

Created and performed by Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, Directed by Sophie Yendole with Music composed by Marc Stewart

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg began creating bANGER as Ruby Slippers' Artist In Residence two years ago. Theatre meets dance meets metal!

"... while her brilliant text and hilarious male characterizations are a feminist tirade, she actually brings poignancy to the men she targets."
Paula Citron, The Globe and Mail

In April 2007 we presented Trout Stanley at Performance Works and at the Shadbolt Centre. Trout Stanley written by Claudia Dey and directed by Diane Brown. It featured Lois Anderson, Colleen Wheeler, and Jonathan Young. Set was by David Roberts, lights by Itai Erdal, sound by Patrick Pennefather, costumes by Sheila White, visuals by Tim Matheson.

Grace works at the town dump. Sugar makes tragic figurines. Together, they have settled into routine until the Scrabble Champ Stripper disappears, and Trout Stanley appears, turning the tables on these mismatched twins.

"a deliciously lyrical piece of Canadian Gothic"
Anita Gates, NY Times

"The frequently arresting imagery spilling out of people's mouths lends music to the sometimes dark, sometimes comic action, which involves various loves bent out of shape by too much or too little expression."
Jon Kaplan, NOW Toronto

Our Western Canadian premiere production of Trout Stanley was nominated for many Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, including Outstanding Direction and Production.

Playwright in Residence
James Long

06jameslong.jpg - 3632 BytesJames has been writing since becoming inspired to compose a book of poetry about his teeth at the age of 10. Since then he's written a couple of plays by himself; one about a chicken - Broiler, one about a TV - Idiot Box, and a bunch of plays with other people, including one about trees - The Last Stand - with Kendra Fanconi and one about karaoke - The Empty Orchestra - with Maiko Bae Yamamoto, Adrienne Wong and Darren O'Donnell.With Visions of Roland he is on to mudslides, addiction and class - three things that make Vancouver the special little place it is.

He thinks Ruby Slippers Theatre is very brave.

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___________ 2007/2008 ___________

FEMMES FATALES SHOWCASE

08firehall.gif - 2149 Bytes Each season, Ruby Slippers Theatres' Femmes Fatales series showcases a visionary heroine from the world stage, a woman who creates and performs her own work.

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Firehall Arts Centre and Ruby Slippers Theatre presented Living Shadows: A Story of Mary Pickford, written and performed by Tracey Power, and directed by Brian Dooley October 24 - Nov 3, 2007. www.firehallartscentre.ca

There's something winning about this sepia portrait of a woman who gave up everything for a 2-D image of herself.
Edmonton Journal/Liz Nichols

You won't want to miss a moment of Power's performance. She plays Mary with a wide-eyed innocence and enthusiasm that is simultaneously evocative of silent film acting and entirely natural - and completely engrossing.
CBC Winnipeg/Joff Schmidt

MAINSTAGE PRODUCTION

laseizeme.gif - 1735 BytesRuby Slippers Theatre presented the English language World Premiere of The View From Above, a co-production with Theatre la Seizieme. It was written by James Long and directed by Diane Brown, with dramaturgy by Marcus Youssef, and featured Tom McBeath, Karin Konoval, Donna Soares and more

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Vancouver 2011. Global Warming, class warfare, the return of the prodigal son... Just another day in paradise.

At Performance Works from April 12 - 27, 2008, and at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts from April 30 - May 3

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________ 2008/2009  20th Anniversary Season________

20th anniversary season

It's always best to be recognized by your peers, and Ruby Slippers Theatre is thrilled to wrap up it's 20th Anniversary Season leading the Small Theatre nominations with an exciting 8 Jessie Richardson Award nominations - including Outstanding Production - for the English language World Premiere Production of Serge Boucher's LIFE SAVERS, translated by Shelley Tepperman. Read more here

Femme Fatales

No woman ever made history by behaving.

Femme FatalesA weekend of theatrical misbehaviour led by Governor General's Award winning playwright Colleen Murphy (The December Man).

November 22 and 23, 2008

Masterclass with Colleen Murphy
November 22 and 23, 10 - 6 pm

Reading
Saturday, November 22, 8 pm

New works read by Vancouver's hottest theatre makers followed by In conversation with Colleen Murphy, hosted by Martin Kinch.

Festival House,
1398 Cartwright Street,

Produced in association with
The Playwrights Theatre Centre



Life Savers

Life Savers

A life-affirming comedy about death.

English language World Premiere Production
by Serge Boucher
translated by Shelley Tepperman.
Directed by Diane Brown.
Featuring Patti Allan, Kevin McNulty, Mike Wasko, Colleen Wheeler, Deborah Williams, Naomi Wright and many more!

April 4 - 19, 2009

Performance Works,
1218 Cartwright Street,
Granville Island

April 22 - 25, 2009
The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts,
6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby

What the audience said...

"Loved the Stage. Loved the Aunt (in Mom's the Word as well). Father, mother, sisters, everyone was really really good.
When it comes to live theatre, I always hope and hope that the actors will be convincing, and then second that the story is well-done (I just can't concentrate on the play, if I don't buy the performances). But they were all fantastic - nice work everyone!"
S. Bailey

"It was indeed a fabulous performance! {We} went off to the GI Hotel for a drink and what turned out to be a really deep conversation about our various takes on the "story" - a sign that each of us was profoundly affected by the play. What greater statement is there than that?"
Brenda Berck

"The play and the production tonight was absolutely fantastic. Your direction was flawless and the ensemble cast stellar. What a perfect night at the theatre! I will most certainly spread the word to my entire acting student base that this is a must see play. Congratulations on twenty years, and have a great run!"
Iris Quinn and Fred Henderson

"Diane's direction (of the play) was masterful. Please pass on my congratulations to Diane on bringing together one of the most diverse groups of players & roles in a play that had people around me both laughing and crying!!! She did a great job and thank you."
Allan & Faigie Waisman

Plus these...

"Powerful performances."
"Bravo to all!"
"Fantastic!"
"Thoroughly impressive."
"Excellent show."

Produced with the generous support of
The Playhouse Theatre Company


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