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A Ruby Slippers Theatre Premiere Production
The Baking Show Show: The Play
By Faly Mevamanana
Sugar. Salt. Sabotage.
When Grace’s first attempt to win Canada’s most elite baking competition fails, she spirals into obsession. Soon enough, she’s trapped in a pit of her own deception and turns to the one thing she has left… sabotage.
This sharp, satirical comedy by Faly Mevamanana takes a knife to the glossy world of reality TV, exposing the personal cost of chasing perfection and the dangers of external expectations.
Production TEam
Faly Mevamanana, playwright
Jasmine Chen, director
Arthi Chandra & Katerina Bakolias, Dramaturgy
Maria Zarillo, stage manager
Anna Brew, apprentice stage manager
Nico Dicecco, production manager & technical director
Julia Kim, set designer
Jonathan Kim, lighting designer
Alaia Hamer, costume design
Sapphire Haze (Aysha Dulong and Cindy Kao), Sound Designer and Original Score
Vanka Salim, projection designer
Jodi Smith, publicist
Anna Brew, Apprentice Stage Manager
Mike Kovac, Fight Choreographer
Props and Set Assistants, Stefanie Infantino & Paula Vitanen
Lighting Design Assistant, Shila Amin
Performers
Faly Mevamanana
Sharon Crandall
Andy Marie
Runtime: 75 minutes
Grandma. Gangsta. Guerrilla.
by Abi Padilla
Presented in association with the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Presentation House Theatre, and Blackout Art Society
This ain’t a sob story about war crimes, dementia, nor getting old. It’s a sprint down the memory lane of a butt-kickin’, bar-spittin’, tough grandma who escapes the care home to be with her family. When our favorite Filipino grandma Lola Basyang goes missing, it’s up to her grandchildren Nika and Jun-jun to bring her back to safety. Using their lola’s unfinished memoir, they find clues to her whereabouts, her full-of-beans origin story and the historical turmoils of their motherland. Reminiscent of their immigration stories, they reflect on what it means to maintain family ties in a Western society.
Content Warning:
. Coarse Language
. Brief Mentions and References to Sexual Assault
. Mentions of War
Grandma. Gangsta. Guerrilla.
by Abi Padilla
Director: Leslie Dos Remedios
Featuring:
Yorlene Bernido – Nika
Evelyn Chew – Commander Lumen and Ensemble
Kevin Nguyen – Nurse Chaz, Andi Martin and Ensemble
Abigail Padilla – Basyang
Vince Sendrijas – Jun-Jun, Filipino Radio Reporter
Raugi Yu – Boss Mayhem, Pedro
Terrence Zhou – Ken, Captain Manaka
Apprentice Director: Isaac Li
Set Design: Kimira Reddy
Lighting Design: Jonathan Kim
Projection Design: Andie Lloyd
Sound Design: Riley Hardwick
Music Director and Composer: Argel Monte de Ramos
Projection Co-Designers: Ronnie Cheng and June Hsu
Fight Directors and Intimacy Choreographers: Nathania Bernabe and Jackie T. Hanlin, Affair of Honor
Fight Captain: Terrence Zhou
Music Captain: Vince Sendrijas
Props Design: Heidi Wilkinson
Costume Design: Sarah Sosick
TD/PM: Nico Dicecco
Stage Manager: Jennifer Wilson
Apprentice Stage Manager: Vicki Santos
RST thanks the North Vancouver Recreation and Culture Centre for their generous support.
Home Deliveries
by Catherine Léger, translated by Leanna Brodie, directed by Diane Brown
From the people who brought you RST’s smash hit I Lost My Husband
A United Players Production in Association with Ruby Slippers Theatre. Translation commissioned by Ruby Slipper Theatre.
Violet is on mat leave. Florence is on sick leave. Both of them are moms, tied to their young children by invisible wires of steel… while their spouses barely notice they’re alive. These two bored, abandoned and dissatisfied women join forces to fight back in the most hilarious way possible: by going on a mission to seduce a string of lovers… all without walking out the front door.
An English language premiere of Deux Femmes en or. in English language translation commissioned by Ruby Slippers Theatre.
Home Deliveries
by Catherine Léger, translated by Leanna Brodie
Director: Diane Brown
Set Design: Heipo Leung
Costume Design: Sarah Sosick
Assistant to the Costume Designer Designer: Danielle Morrison
Lighting Design: Christian Ching
Sound Design: Hannah Dumez
Performers
Aurora Chan
Stefania Indelicato
Daniel Martin
Dan Tait Brown
Alina Quarin
BENEVOLENCE
An English language premiere production from Ruby Slippers Theatre of a Governor General’s award winning play.
by Fanny Britt – Translated by Leanna Brodie.
Directed by Diane Brown
Gilles Jean, big-time lawyer, returns to his hometown of Benevolence to try a troubling case involving the child of an old friend. But with the ghosts of his deceased brothers and father peering over his shoulder, and his mother asking after the state of his soul, homecoming is no easy thing. This pitch-black comedy (presented in a new English translation) offers a surreal reflection on our small cowardices and our great contradictions.
Directed by Diane Brown.
Featuring Charlie Gallant, Chris Lam, Paul Moniz de Sá, Stephanie Wong, and Beatrice Zeilinger.
Sound Design by Rick Colhoun.
Set and Lighting Design by John Webber.
Costume Design by Jessica Oostergo.
Properties by Monica Emme.
Stage Management by Nico Dicecco.
Apprentice Stage Manager Dayna Horn.
Technical Direction by Daniel O’Shea.
English language translation commissioned by Ruby Slippers Theatre.
Dil Ka
Ruby Slippers Theatre, in association with Presentation House Theatre and the Blackout Arts Society, present the world premiere production of Dil Ka by Lee Nisar
World Premiere
Dil Ka [‘of the heart’] follows Zahra, a 26 year old Pakistani woman, as she prepares to meet her latest arranged match for marriage. Zahra spends the majority of the play in her family’s kitchen preparing the traditional Pakistani dish, biryani, to present to the prospective groom’s family.
Dil Ka investigates the concept of the kitchen as both refuge and place of constriction for many South Asian women, and dissects the way in which we inherit familial habits and – most importantly – recipes. Toying with direct address as a confessional to explore the intersecting identity of a queer Muslim woman and the growing tension between her familial duties and her own desires for life. As the story unfolds the biryani becomes a metaphor for the ingredients that make a “perfect bride”.
Content Notice:
The play includes: offensive language and discussions of homophobia, racism, Islamophobia.
Written by Lee Nisar
Directed by Tricia Trinh
Cultural Consultant: Adolyn Hamed Dar
Technical Direction & Production Management by Jessica Han
Set design by Kimira Reddy
Lighting design by John Webber
Sound design by Mishelle Cutler
Projection Design by Jullianna Oke- Chimerik
Costume design by Rachel Macadam
Cast
Nimet Kanji
Parm Soor
Rami Kahlon
Janavi Chawla
Talia Vandenbrink
Tanaz Roudgar
Les Belles-soeurs by Michel Tremblay,
Directed by Diane Brown.
This incendiary production of an iconic Canadian play brings fifteen of Vancouver’s finest actors together onstage:
Patti Allan, Daria Banu, Eileen Barrett, Lucia Frangione, Emilie Leclerc, Melissa Oei, Pippa Mackie, France Perras, Sarah May Redmond, Sarah Rodgers, Kerry Sandomirksy, Ariel Slack, Agnes Tong, Tallulah Winkelman, and Beatrice Zeilinger. Photographed by Tim Matheson.
You Will Remember Me
By Francois Archambault, translated by Bobby Theodore. West Coast premiere directed by Diane Brown.
Featuring Kevin McNulty, Patti Allan, Sereana Malani, Craig Erickson, Marci T. House. Photographed by Tim Matheson.
Après Moi (After Me)
By Christian Bégin, English language translation commissioned by Ruby Slippers Theatre from Leanna Brodie. Premiere directed by Diane Brown.
Featuring Jennifer Lines, David Bloom, Chirag Naik, Scott Bellis, Dawn Petten. Photographed by Tim Matheson.
The Duchess aka Wallis Simpson
By Linda Griffiths. Directed by Sarah Rodgers.
Featuring Diane Brown, Eileen Barratt, Raugi Yu, Georgia Beatty, Craig Erickson, Joel Garner, Melissa Oei, Kamyar Pazandah, Matt Reznek, Xander Williams. Photographed by Tim Matheson.
The Leisure Society
By Francois Archambault, translated by Bobby Theodore. West Coast premiere directed by Diane Brown.
Featuring Scott Bellis, Colleen Wheeler, Robert Moloney, Hazel Venzon. Photographed by Tim Matheson.
Life Savers
By Serge Boucher, English language translation commissioned by Ruby Slippers Theatre from Shelley Tepperman. Premiere directed by Diane Brown.
Featuring Colleen Wheeler, Kevin McNulty, Patti Allan, Mike Wasko, Wendy Morrow Donaldson, Deborah Williams, Maria Oldeen, Naomi Wright. Photographed by Tim Matheson.
Trout Stanley
By Claudia Dey. West Coast premiere directed by Diane Brown.
Featuring Jonathan Young, Lois Anderson, Colleen Wheeler. Photographed by Tim Matheson.
The Cat Who Ate Her Husband
By Drew McCreadie. Premiere directed by Diane Brown.
Featuring Nicole Lavasseaur, Scott Bellis, Kerry Davidson, Alex Ferguson, Kristina Agosti, Dawn Petten. Photographed by Tim Matheson.
Down Dangerous Passes Road
By Michel Marc Bouchard, translated by Linda Gaboriau, west coast premiere directed by Diane Brown.
Featuring Peter Wilds, Donald Adams, Bob Frazer; remount at The Belfry featuring Robert Moloney, Donald Adams and Jonathan Young. Photographed by Tim Matheson.
The Waiting Room
By Lisa Loomer, Canadian premiere directed by Diane Brown in association with Studio 58
Featuring Beatrice Zeilinger, Scott Bellis, Allan Zinyk, Evangelic Dueck, Donna Soares, and senior Studio 58 students. Photographed by Emily Cooper.
5 @ 50
By Brad Fraser. Ruby Slippers Theatre and Zee Zee Theatre.
Featuring Diane Brown, Beatrice Zeilinger, Donna Yamamoto, Deborah Williams, Veena Sood, directed by Cameron Mackenzie. Photographed by Victoria Black.
Communion
By Daniel MacIvor. Directed by Roy Surette.
Features Diane Brown, Kerry Sandomirsky, Marci Nestman. Photos by Tim Matheson.
