A Spring of Theatre 2018 in Victoria BC. March-May.
Spring signifies renewal, rebirth and growth, and nowhere is this more evident than in Victoria’s burgeoning theatre ecosystem where the period from March to the end of May will see more than SIXTY shows, cabarets, fundraisers, play readings and festivals, including the Belfry Theatre SPARK Festival and the TD Festival of New Works at the Canadian College of Performing Arts in March, Paper Street’s Improv Festival in April and Readers’ Theatre Festival and Intrepid Theatre’s UNO Fest in May. In addition there are two on-going play reading series–The Jazz Page produced by workingclasstheatre and Oupost 31 Victoria and World Play by Puente Theatre. Look for work by emerging artists at Intrepid Theatre’s YOU Show and Impulse Theatre’s Peek Show. Students at the Canadian College of Performing Arts, the University of Victoria Phoenix Theatre and SKAM Studios are finishing their school year with shows and year-end productions. There will be theatre for young audiences, and old favourites to enjoy. Remember too–theatre in Victoria is among the least expensive in the country; there are pay-what-you can performances, shows by donation, preview and rush tickets that make theatre accessible to everyone.
March
NEVA – by Guillermo Calderón
February 13 – March 3
Theatre Inconnu
Neva takes place on Bloody Sunday, 1905, the day when protesting workers were massacred by government forces on their way to the Winter Palace to deliver a message to the czar. In a rehearsal space in St. Petersburg self-dramatizing diva Olga, the recent widow of Anton Chekhov, bemoans her inability to act well any longer, paralyzed by the fear of disapointing others. Only two other actors have managed to show up due to the massacre: the slippery Aleko and the seemingly effacing Masha. They alternately engage in improvised impromptu scenes of heightened emotion, amusing themselves by blurring the distinction between the personal and the staged, finding the genuine in the counterfeit and visa versa, all the while critiquing each other’s artistic choices and moral character. Calderón, using biting humour, ironically questions the purpose and integrity of art in a world gone – and unfortunately, still going – mad.
“An extraordinary effort.” The Hollywood Reporter
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen’s Classic Dramatic Comedy, Adapted by Kate Hamill
Directed by Keith Digby and Cynthia Pronick
Langham Court Theatre
February 28-March 17
You’ve never seen Austen like this! As the “greatest stage adaptation of this novel in history,” this rollicking, ingeniously-staged new adaptation follows the adventures (and misadventures) of the Dashwood sisters – sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne – after their sudden loss of fortune. Bursting with humour, emotion, and bold theatricality, Sense and Sensibility asks: when reputation is everything, how do you follow your heart?
SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES
“A whirlwind of delicious gossip… furiously funny and memorably moving” New York Times
“Wry, sharp-witted, engaging, intimate, and often hysterical” Towle Road
Anything Goes! directed by Heather Day Jeliazkov
Oak Bay High School Musical Theatre
February 23-March 3
Dave Dunnet Community Theatre at the school, 2121 Cadboro Bay Rd.
Anything Goes is set aboard the ocean liner S. S. American, where nightclub singer/evangelist Reno Sweeney is en route from New York to England. Her pal Billy Crocker has stowed away to be near his love, Hope Harcourt, but the problem is Hope is engaged to the wealthy Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Joining this love triangle on board the luxury liner are Public Enemy #13, Moonface Martin and his sidekick-in-crime Erma. With the help of some elaborate disguises, tap-dancing sailors and good old-fashioned blackmail, Reno and Martin join forces to help Billy in his quest to win Hope’s heart.
Pom’yat (To Remember)
Applied Theatre presentation
University of Victoria Phoenix Theatre
March 2nd
A devised play about Ukrainian Canadian identity, heritage, and oppression. ???’??? [Pom’yat’] tells the story of the Kobevko family over three generations, as they struggle to find their place as new Canadians while retaining their Ukrainian identities. The play depicts the challenging history of the Ukrainian people, including the Holodomor, the Ukrainian Canadian internment camps, racism, and assimilation. An emotional and humorous theatrical experience, incorporating Ukrainian folk music, dance, poetry, and more.
The performance is preceded by a (free!) perogy reception.
26 hour Improvathon, a fundraiser for Paper Street Theatre
Intrepid Theatre Club, Fisgard at Blanshard
March 2-March 3
Watch the Improvathon on Periscope! @PaperStTheatre
The stream starts when the show starts, at 8pm on Friday March 2nd, and it will run straight through until 10pm on Saturday March 3rd.
If you’d like to watch the show live, you can come on down to Intrepid Theatre!
The Jazz Page presented by workingclasstheatre and Outpost 31 Victoria
March 7
2% Jazz at the Hudson
This round we’re excited and grateful to feature Janet Munsil’s ATTABOY, and Jennifer Wynne Webber’s WITH GLOWING HEARTS.
ATTABOY – Whiz-kid teen Daniel is hard at work on a top-secret project in the backyard shed, a breakthrough that could change the world. When the EPA arrives to investigate, Dan is forced to face the instability of his own future, and the consequences of his dangerous obsession.
Janet Munsil’s plays include That Elusive Spark, Circus Fire, Influence, Emphysema (a love story), Ugly Duchess, and others. She is a MFA student in Writing at UVic.
Jennifer Wynne Webber is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter who lives on Vancouver Island. She is currently at work developing new plays as well as projects for film and television. Jennifer’s most recent play “WITH GLOWING HEARTS” was named “Best of the Fest” at the 2016 Fringe Festival in Saskatoon and will receive a full production at Nanaimo’s Theatre One in the spring of 2018
WITH GLOWING HEARTS is the rousing true story of women in 1940s Kirkland Lake, Ontario who fought to improve conditions for their husbands working in the town’s hard-rock mines. When the siren that signals an accident at the mine sounds yet again, they become the heart and soul of a union organizing drive that eventually changes their lives – and the world.
Bedtime Stories by Norm Foster
St Luke’s Players
March 7-18
In a series of scenes connected by time and place and a most unusual radio broadcast, we follow inter-weaving characters in their comic struggle to find the meaning of love
Broadway Lights
Canadian College of Performing Arts
Performance with the Victoria Symphony
March 9-11, 2018
Join conductor Brian Jackson, the talented artists of the Victoria Symphony, and the students of CCPA as they bring the bright lights of Broadway to the Royal Theatre stage in this high energy extravaganza.
2018 Spark Festival
Belfry Theatre March 8-28
The Belfry Theatre’s SPARK Festival bustles with creativity and includes many free events—mini-plays, play readings, the family-friendly dance party HOOTENANNY on Saturday March 17—as well as a unique pop-up site-specific community choral experience Why Are We Here and some of the most thought-provoking and modern theatre being produced today.
Belfry SPARK Festival
March 8-10
True Crime
Created by Torquil Campbell & Chris Abraham in collaboration with Julian Brown
Performed by Torquil Campbell (lead singer of Stars), live music by Julian Brown
Crow’s Theatre presents The Castleton Massive Production, Toronto
“What makes this show so very smart and entertaining is the way Campbell draws you into a web of stories and constantly keeps you guessing about what you can and can’t believe. Art imitates life imitates true crime.” Toronto Star
Pinocchio
Kaleidoscope Theatre for Young People
March 10/11
McPherson Playhouse
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE REAL?
The spirit of Pinocchio is trapped inside a piece of wood and born into a magical world of tricksters, mentors, and protectors guiding him on his way to becoming a ‘real’ boy. Protected through the unconditional love of his father and the Blue Fairy who woke him, Pinocchio works to find his way home.
For our final show of the season, Roderick Glanville will be joining with renowned Kaska/Tlingit artist Dean Heron in this new adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s famous tale, blending it with Pacific Northwest Indigenous traditions to create a new and magnificent work.
Belfry SPARK Festival
March 12
Why We Are Here!
Created by Brian Quirt and Martin Julien
Nightswimming, Toronto
Why We Are Here! is a unique and stand-alone experience that invites audience members to become a choir and sing in a site that they would not normally be able to sing in.
Why We Are Here! is Nightswimming’s site specific pop-up choir that places audiences at the centre of an exhilarating choral adventure — and they’re the singers.
Nightswimming is an award-winning Toronto-based dramaturgical theatre company with a national mandate focused on research, creation and performance through commissioning and developing new Canadian plays, musical works and dance.
Belfry SPARK Festival
March 13-17
Who Killed Spalding Gray? written & performed by Daniel MacIvor
reWork Productions, Toronto
“…after 80 minutes that blend mythology, dreamlike images, the movie Big Fish, and MacIvor’s own propensity for looking for signs from the universe and “significance where (he) can find it,” there’s a moment of breakthrough and clarity, which is well earned and a beautiful (literal) breath of fresh air.” CARLY MAGA, TORONTO STAR
Belfry SPARK Festival
March 13-17
Mouthpiece
Created and Performed by Norah Sadava and Amy Nostbakken
Quote Unquote Collective / Why Not Theatre, Toronto
“One of the most incisive commentaries on contemporary womanhood I’ve ever heard. This show lays bare in an emotionally authentic, creative, often funny, self-reflective and guileless way what it’s like to be a woman in our society.” My Entertainment World
The Comedy of Errors
University of Victoria Phoenix Theatre
March 15 – 24, 2018
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Jeffrey Renn (MFA Candidate)
Mystery and mayhem are at the heart of Shakespeare’s shortest and funniest comedy that features a pair of twins – twice! Twenty years after they are separated in a storm at sea, the twins find themselves swept up in Mardi Gras celebrations and everyone gets mistaken for everyone else. This pop musical reboot of the 16th-century farce will have you asking the eternal question, “Who am I?” while dancing in the aisles to songs by artists from Nina Simone to Beyoncé, and Queen to Justin Timberlake.
(Recommended for ages 13+)
Animal Medicine
PRODUCER: Eddi Wilson
An Intrepid Theatre YOU Show at the Intrepid Theatre Club
March 16/17
What do you get when you cross a Two-Spirit Métis agnostic, a career in veterinary medicine, and a pathological preoccupation with parasites? Part biology lesson, part pet therapy session; Animal Medicine explores the experience of a self identified human seeking a cure for their condition. Eddi Wilson uses music, monologue and movement to dissect what they have learned from a life spent staring in the microscope.
Thy/Self
Broken Rhythms
Metro Studio
March 16/17
ThySelf –The newest piece from Victoria’s innovative indie dance company Broken Rhythms explores anxiety, self-sabotage and identity through dance. This show is for anyone who has felt lonely in a crowded room or at peace in a moment of solitude.
ThySelf explores who we are in public, in private and who we strive to be through movement, breath, and rhythm. Dancers explore the fractured self that comes together to create coherent identities that transform and dissolve moment to moment.
Charles Fernyhough writes… “We are all fragmented, …there is no unitary self. We are all in pieces, struggling to create the illusion of a coherent ‘me’ from moment to moment.”
Originally conceived as a work to combat personal feelings of anxiety, the research and creation evolved to dive deep into a fragmented reality that focuses on conflicting internal monologues that make up personalities. Rather than thinking that thoughts and identity are stagnant ThySelf views them as ever evolving layers that crack and separate to create individual moments that make up our day to day reality.
John Fluevog presents 88 Keys, Stepping Up
a fundraiser for Kaleidoscope Theatre
March 17
John Fluevog Shoes, 566 Johnson Street
88 Keys’ is a spring fundraising concert and sales event, raising money for Kaleidoscope’s operations and community through a volunteer concert. Our singers are Kaleidoscope professionals and students, accompanied on the piano for a select audience. Join us for an evening of song, shoe sales, and the last night of our spring silent auction, and experience the joy of a Kaleidoscope concert! John Fluevog will present its spring line of shoes at the event, with half of the proceeds going to Kaleidoscope
Grownups Perform Plays Kids Wrote
a fundraiser for Theatre SKAM
March 18
Langham Court Theatre
details to follow
Belfry SPARK Festival
Play Readings
March 18 (FREE Event)
Scenes from plays by fourth year students and M.F.A. candidates from UVic’s writing program, read by UVic theatre students.
Belfry SPARK Festival
Sundays in Sodom–by Jordan Tannahilla
Play reading directed by Sean Guist
March 19 (FREE Event)
In the Bible, she goes unnamed, known only as Lot’s Wife: the impertinent woman who was turned to a pillar of salt for looking back to behold God’s destruction of her hometown. In Sunday in Sodom, Edith recounts how her husband Lot welcomed two visitors into their house and the destruction that followed.
Belfry SPARK Festival
March 20 – 24, 2018
Tomorrow’s Child
Adapted from Ray Bradbury’s short story by Eric Rose, Matthew Waddell and David van Belle
Ghost River Theatre, Calgary
An unforgettable immersive audio experience created for a blindfolded audience. “…your ears receive the audio equivalent of a five star dinner.” Calgary Herald
Based on the short story “Tomorrow Child” by Ray Bradbury, originally published as “The Shape of Things” © 1947; renewed 1975 by Ray Bradbury. Performed by permission of Don Congdon Associates, Inc.
Belfry SPARK Festival
March 20 – 24, 2018
Café Daughter
Performed by Tiffany Ayalik
Written by Kenneth T. Williams
Directed by Lisa C. Ravensbergen
Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, Edmonton
Nine-year-old Yvette Wong helps out in her parents’ cafe?. She’s incredibly smart but is put in the slow learners’ class because of her skin colour. Her mother has charged her with a secret – to never tell anyone she’s part Cree. Based on the true story of Senator Lillian Eva Quan Dyck, Cafe? Daughter is the powerful, funny and touching tale of one woman’s journey to reclaim her heritage.
Shirley Valentine performed by Lorene Cammiade
Dragon Monkey Theatre
Langham Court Theatre
March 23/24
Back by popular demand. $2 from every ticket sold will go to the BC Cancer Immunotherapy Program.
This is one of the greatest comedies ever written. If you haven’t seen it, don’t miss it. And if you’ve already seen it, you’ll most likely want to see it again!
Belfry SPARK Festival
March 25
Belfry 101 Live
Written and Directed by the Belfry 301 Ensemble.
In one short week, the remarkable high school students in our Belfry 101 program create a performance based on their responses to themes and images from plays they’ve seen this year at the Belfry. Filtered through their own personal experiences and insights, the result is an original, surprising and always inspiring piece of theatre.
A talkback with the students will follow the performance.
TD Festival of New Works
Canadian College of Performing Arts
March 27-28, 2018
Musical Theatre | Choral | Playwriting | Directing | Choreography
Featuring original works and direction by the College’s Year II students. A provocative and engaging showcase of music, dance, and theatre.
‘Wouldn’t you like to be able to say, just once, ‘I knew them when they were just starting out’?”-Janis La Couvée, on The Festival Of New Works
At this unique event, Victoria audiences are given a rare glimpse of the first stirrings of creation. In September, a few second-year students start making a new piece for the stage. Each artist works closely with a mentor for three months. The students strive to learn the skills of preparation and incubation, gaining fresh insights through trial and error. Then, each new artist gets to test the piece in front of you, a Victoria arts lover. Our audiences get a rare opportunity to see and hear these bold experiments. Join us for this provocative event!
A Twelf(ish) Night
A Bard in the Ballroom presentation by Launch Pad Theatre
March 28-April 14
Craigdarroch Castle
The third installment of Launch Pad’s Bard in the Ballroom series will bring in the spring with a feverish, fast paced farce; a fresh take on a classic play adapted from William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Including a pre-show cocktail party, live music, and live Foley art for a witty and wonderful hour-and-a-half of enjoyment.
April
The Jazz Page presented by workingclasstheatre and Outpost 31 Victoria
April 4
2% Jazz at the Hudson
an evening of readings of new work by Erin Macklem, Ian Case, David Elendune, Tristan Bacon.
Mixed-up
PRODUCER: Surrounded By Owls/John Aitken
An Intrepid Theatre YOU Show at the Intrepid Theatre Club
April 6/7
Mixed-up explores the many over-lapping cultural similarities between John Aitken’s Coast Salish lineage and his Scottish lineage. This production will explore John’s struggles and celebrations to define his identity as a person of mixed ancestry.
The Lesson by Bema Productions
Temple Emanu El
April 12, 15, 16, 17,19 and 22
Canadian premiere of “The Lesson” by Wendy Graf. Anyone who has always wondered what a Bar Mitzvah is all about must see this delightful and moving play as Alf Small plays an older guy who finally decides to have this milestone in his life and the audience gets to learn right along with him.
Ruby Moon by Matt Cameron (Australia), directed by Andrew Barrett
World Play 2018
Puente Theatre
April 15
Belfry Theatre, Studio A
Play readings of works from around the globe.
Every Which Way But Dead, an interactive murder mystery night
Enigmatic Events
April 16
The Duke Saloon
A 70’s roadhouse themed mystery this time, written by Chris Rudrum and performed by the regular ensemble (Amy Culliford, Natasha Guerra, Bill Nance) plus guests actors.
“Every Which Way But Dead” is an interactive murder mystery, taking inspiration from “Smokey and the Bandit” and “Every Which Way But Loose”. You’ll meet some of the key characters and ask them the questions needed to find out the secrets of the Duke. Actors will be playing various roles. Mingle with them and other guests throughout the evening, follow your Sherlock Holmes instincts, and once the you’ve eliminated the impossible, the improbable must be the truth.
“In 1978, The Duke Saloon was a roadhouse for locals and truckers. Offering cheap beer and country music, it hosted a mix of truckers, travelers and hard-working, blue collar locals. Perched on the outskirts of Victoria, it was known for it’s no-nonsense attitude, especially from it’s owner, Rusty McMullen. However, Rusty’s not been seen for a few days, and his daughter Kitty is concerned he might have upset the wrong people…
Come dressed for the era… but remember, in this sleepy backwater, Disco is one of them fancy city things… Doors open at 6.30pm, the introduction beginning at 7.00pm. Please note that the Duke does not serve food, but has fine beer and whiskies”
Salt Baby by Falen Johnson
Belfry Theatre
April 17-May 13
“…a must-see for modern Canadians” The Carillon, Regina
A modern comedy about finding out who you really are. Salt Baby is a Six Nations woman whose light skin means she’s seen differently than her relatives, both on the rez and in the city. She’s a fish out of water and, accompanied by her Caucasian boyfriend, Alligator, she’s determined to discover how she fits into her two very different worlds.
Fawlty Towers Series 3
Peninsula Players
Mary Winspear Centre – Charlie White Theatre
April 19th to 22nd
Three episodes: The Builders, The Anniversary Party and Gourmet Night. A hilarious series of events leading Basil ever closer to going over the edge.
The Clean House, a Romantic Surreal Comedy by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Alan Penty
Langham Court Theatre
April 19-May 5
“A clean house is the sign of a sick mind,” so says the bumper sticker. This theatrical and wildly funny play is a whimsical romantic comedy centered on Matilde, a quirky Brazilian cleaning woman who hates to clean and would rather be a comedian. It is an examination of our first world values and a poignant look at class, comedy and the true nature of love.
SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES
“A gorgeous production… tart humour, theatrical audacity, emotional richness”
New York Times
Single tickets on sale Mon, Mar 19, 2018
Peek Show presented by Impulse Theatre
April 21
Intrepid Theatre Club
Impulse Theatre presents an evening of new work at Intrepid Theatre Club in a celebration of experimentation and process. An informal and exciting experience between artists and patrons, all discovering new stories and worlds for the first time. From text, to dance, to somewhere in-between, we will be living in a space of discovery and courage. PEEK-SHOW is an initiative to foster creative connections between Victoria’s performing artists and to spark momentum within the community.? Applications accepted to March 15th
Blink by Phil Porter (Great Britain) directed by Pat Rundell
World Play 2018
Puente Theatre
April 22
Belfry Theatre, Studio A
Play readings of works from around the globe.
Swan Song and Other Farces by Anton Chekov
Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre
April 24-May 6
An evening of hysterical one-act plays by Anton Chekhov, including Swan Song, The Proposal, The Bear and On The Harmfulness of Tobacco.
Paper Street Improv Festival
April 24-28
Intrepid Theatre Club
For five nights audience can enjoy Paper Street Theatre’s award-winning improv. With two shows every night, plus late night mash-ups Friday/Saturday, the festival is jam packed with creativity. There will be shows from Paper Street Theatre, visiting guest artists and ensembles made up of your favourite local improvisers
Gala, the best of CCPA from the past 20 years
Canadian College of Performing Arts
April 26-28, 2018
This year’s end-of-year show, “GALA!”, will celebrate the fact that our graduates’ careers have taken them to Broadway, London, Berlin, Tokyo, Toronto, Vancouver, Stratford and more, to perform in some of the world’s most famous shows!
The Canadian College of Performing Arts is celebrating 20 Years of Excellence in performing arts training, so join us for the hits of CCPA in a GALA evening directed by co-founders Jacques Lemay and Janis Dunning.
Get OUT Cabaret (OUTstages Launch Party)
Intrepid Theatre
April 27
Metro Studio
Glitter and be gay at this raucous cabaret and OUTstages launch party rolled into one! This one-night only celebration of everything queer features a diverse line-up of local artists and is packed with inspired, kitschy, avant-garde, and fabulous performances.
Get OUT with hosts Vivian Vanderpuss, Victoria’s zestiest queen, and former Mr Gay Vancouver Island, Eddi Licious and get a behind-the-scenes look at the shows, events and artists at the 4th OUTstages Festival (running June 19-24).
Scorch by Stacey Gregg (Northern Ireland) directed by Karin Saari
World Play 2018
Puente Theatre
April 29
Belfry Theatre, Studio A
Play readings of works from around the globe.
May
TENANT HAYMOVITICH – by Ariel Bronz
Theatre Inconnu
May 1 – 19
“A writer named Daniel rents an apartment only to discover he already has roommates which may or may not be figments of his imagination. They all seem to be collaborating to pull him down the rabbit hole of a strange alternate reality. Or maybe it is actually going on. Or are they doing it for another reason, like to confound him from moving forward in his life? His possibly imaginary housemates include mindless bureaucrats, cruel dictators, verbally abusive parents and jilted ex-girlfriends. It’s not until a mock rebirthing – or maybe it actually happened? – and the expulsion of a dybbuk from Daniel’s body that the main character gets closer to resolving his quest to close ‘the bandaged door to my bloodied past’… a very rewarding theatrical experience that unfolds into a sensible, coherent, suitable, coherent conclusion. That you didn’t see coming!” Gigcity, Edmonton
Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman (USA) directed by Matthew McLaren
World Play 2018
Puente Theatre
May 6
Belfry Theatre, Studio A
Play readings of works from around the globe.
Uno Fest presented by Intrepid Theatre
May 9-19th
(see website for links to all the shows)
bug, Manidoons Collective/Yolanda Bonnell (Toronto)
Dream Another Day, Stand Up Dance/Meagan O’Shea (Toronto)
Jezebel At The Still Point, Bumble Bear Productions/Ainsley Hillyard (Edmonton)
Extremophiles, Downstage/Georgina Beaty (Calgary)
Ideas Bobert!, Candy Bones/Candy Roberts (Vancouver)
Omelette, Puzzle Theatre/Csaba Raduly (Montreal)
Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers, Makambe Simamba (Calgary)
Landline, Secret Theatre/Dustin Harvey + Adrienne Wong (Halifax + Vancouver)
My Nightmares Wear White, Grace Thompson (Toronto)
“Perk Up, Pianist!”, HagenDoesTheatre/Sarah Hagen (PEI)
Red Phone, Boca Del Lupo (Vancouver)
SELF-ish, Classy Little Bitch Productions/Diana Bang (Vancouver)
The Chemical Valley Project, Broadleaf Theatre/Kevin Matthew Wong (Toronto)
The Humours of Bandon, Fishamble: The New Play Company/Margaret McAuliffe (Dublin)
The Only Good Indian, Pandemic Theatre (Toronto)
White Man’s Indian, WMI Collective/Darla Contois (Winnipeg)
Readers’ Theatre Festival
May 12th
Langham Court Theatre
Plays to be announced
Laura by Vera Casper and George Sklar
St Luke’s Players
May 16-27
Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious. No man could resist her charms—not even the hardboiled NYPD detective sent to find out who turned her into a faceless corpse. As this tough cop probes the mystery of Laura’s death, he becomes obsessed with her strange power. Soon he realizes he’s been seduced by a dead woman—or has he?
Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat
Four Seasons Musical Theatre
North Douglas Church
May 18-26
Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2018, sha la la Joseph you’re doing fine! You and your dreamcoat ahead of your time! One of the most enduring shows of all time, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a reimagining of the Biblical story of Joseph, his father Jacob, eleven brothers and the coat of many colors.
Told entirely through song with the help of a main character Narrator, the musical follows preferred son Joseph. After being sold into slavery by his brothers, he ingratiates himself with Egyptian noble Potiphar, but ends up in jail after refusing the amorous advances of Potiphar’s wife. While imprisoned, Joseph discovers his ability to interpret dreams, and he soon finds himself in front of the mighty but troubled, Elvis-inspired, Pharaoh. Joseph’s solution to Egypt’s famine elevates him to Pharaoh’s right-hand man and reunites him with his family.
SKAM Studios Advanced Actors Company and Youth Performance Company
Year End Performances
May (TBD)
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre
May 29-June 10
Arthur Miller’s masterpiece about the ties that bind and one American family’s dark involvement in the 2nd World War.
Atomic Vaudeville Spring Cabaret
Victoria Event Centre
May 31-June 3
ATOMIC VAUDEVILLE ends it’s 2017-18 season with their Spring Cabaret.
Winter has ended. The scent of rain and cherry blossoms fills the air, do you smell it? It’s life! It’s growing, it’s new, and it’s beautiful. We made it, together! So, hold off on the spring cleaning for a minute and come celebrate with some songs, some dancing, and some scenes to help you remember everything that’s good about our world, because let’s be honest, how much longer do we really have?
Atomic Vaudeville Cabaret #76
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