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Welcome to Ruby Slipper's 2009/2010
Season of Love

Ruby Slippers Theatre's 2009/10 season is going to be a celebration of love. From the people who brought you the multi-award winning productions of Life Savers, Trout Stanley, The Leisure Society and The Cat Who Ate Her Husband, we are excited to offer our community more innovative works which inspire courage, heart and brains.

Diane Brown,
Artistic Director

Read Ruby Slippers' statement regarding the funding cuts.

Culture Matters Alliance of the Arts Statement of the facts and issues

Please have a look at www.stopbcartscuts.ca/

Ruby Slippers Theatre presents the Western Canadian Premiere of:

A Beautiful View

Written and directed by Governor Generals Award-Winner Daniel MacIvor
featuring Diane Brown and Colleen Wheeler
set and lighting by John Webber

A Beautiful View is a seriocomic trek across the intangibles of love, and examines our affinity for re-writing history in its name. The play chronicles a friendship between two women over 20 years. Both camping aficionados, they meet while shopping for tents. The result is a connection so enigmatic, it informs their choices for the next two decades, culminating in a quiet note of tragicomedy.

December 5-13, 2009
Preview December 4
Performance works
1218 Cartwright Street, Granville Island
Buy tickets at VancouverTix.com or phone 604-629-VTIX

December 16-19, 2009
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
Tickets: 604-205-3000

Tickets: $24/20 including service charges
Pay what you can preview Friday Dec. 4, first come first served basis
Tuesday Dec. 8th at 8PM, & Sun Dec. 13, 2PM matinee ($15)
2PM Sunday Dec. 6: free coffee and conversation with Governor General's award winning writer/director/actor Daniel MacIvor at Performance Works, moderated by Jerry Wasserman. Show at 8PM.

Reviews

"The reason that I go to the theatre is that I hope to have experiences like the one I had at A Beautiful View."
Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight (Read full review here)

"With a chronology that's chopped up and tossed around, and a philosophy rooted in MacIvor's obsession with what truth is and isn't, A Beautiful View could easily be confusing. Instead its effect in this stellar presentation is one of exhilaration; as live theatre so often proves, this is the stuff that dreams are made of."
Peter Birnie, The Vancouver Sun (Read full review here)

"This is another witty, honest exploration of what it is to be human wrapped up in innovative metatheatrics."
Jo Ledingham, The Vancouver Courier (Read full review here)

"With playwright Daniel MacIvor at the helm of his own play, coupled with the terrific performances from Colleen Wheeler and Diane Brown, this Ruby Slippers Theatre production is indeed a thing of beauty."
Mark Robins, GayVancouver.net (Read full review here)

Ruby Slippers Theatre presents the Vancouver premiere of 2b theatre's

THE RUSSIAN PLAY and MEXICO CITY

Two plays by Hannah Moscovitch
directed by Christian Barry
featuring Tessa Cameron, Colombe Demers, Conor Green and Scott Stephenson
stage managed by Louisa Adamson
lighting and sound design by Christian Barry

Set amidst the chaos and noise of Mexico's capital in the 1960s, Mexico City is a short satiric romance that explores the intersection between tourism-as-voyeurism and the battle of the sexes.

Lurking through the doomed men and rotten ideals of Stalinist Russia, The Russian Play is a bleak, bittersweet and darkly ironic ode to the dangerous joys of love.

March 24-28, 2010
Wednesday to Saturday at 8PM, and 2PM matinees on Saturday and Sunday

Performance Works, 1218 Cartwright Street, Granville Island

Tickets: $24/20 including service charges
Tickets at: vancouvertix.com
or 604-629-8849

"Artful in construction, intelligent and subtly humorous in content, and excellently performed, the plays will delight"
-The Halifax Herald

Artist in Residence: Rachel Peake

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