April 28th, 2010 The Editor Posted in Events, Stage, Students, Faculty, and Alumni No Comments »
The Minotaur Dreams: The Downtown Eastside Labyrinth Project
A new telling of an ancient tale, with and for the Downtown Eastside with puppets, masks, promenade theatre, storytelling…
Event Details:
Saturday May 8 at 8 PM
Sunday May 9 at 2 PM and 8 PM
Russian Hall 600 Campbell Ave, Vancouver
by donation ~$10
January 6th, 2010 The Editor Posted in Events, Other Opportunities, Stage, Work Opportunities No Comments »
Get involved with the 2010 PuSh Festival — Volunteer!
The annual PuSh International Performing Arts Festival is one of Vancouver’s signature events. Produced over 20 days each January, the PuSh Festival presents groundbreaking work in the live performing arts: theatre, dance, music and various hybrid forms of performance. It attracts acclaimed local, national and international artists and their work.
This year’s Festival takes place from January 20 to February 6, 2010 and we’re looking for people to fill volunteer positions in Front of House, Hospitality, Program Distribution, and Artist Transportation!
Volunteering for PuSh is a fantastic opportunity to meet people and make new friends! You’ll work closely with a diverse group of exceptional people – national, and international performers, festival patrons, fellow volunteers, and festival staff will all be there! You’ll also come out with transferable skills, training and knowledge about PuSh Festival, welcome and interact with visitors from around the world while giving back to the arts’ community and have tons of fun doing it all.
Volunteers will be provided with a cool t-shirt to wear while on shift and to keep as memorabilia. All volunteers will receive an invite to a fun-filled Wrap Party for them and a friend, free admission to shows in the PuSh Festival program, and an exclusive volunteer badge that allows each volunteer access to even more additional shows! (Subject to availability)
For more information about volunteering and to access our online registration form, please follow this link:
http://pushfestival.ca/index.php?mpage=involved&spage=volform
Visit our website for all things PuSh!
www.pushfestival.ca
December 12th, 2009 The Editor Posted in Events, Stage, Students, Faculty, and Alumni, UBC, UBC Creative Writing No Comments »
Be a part of the 24th Brave New Play Rites Festival of Original Plays April 7-11, 2010!
An incredible experience in a professional theatre environment, and unparalleled networking opportunities. Work with the writers, directors and designers of tomorrow, mentored by resident professional theatre artists on faculty. Students from Theatre at UBC and Creative Writing’s acclaimed training programs write, direct and design for the festival.
OPEN CALL: Actors of All Ages. Male and Female (Non-Union, Non-Paying).
Brave New Play Rites Festival, UBC. Twelve Short Plays by Up-and-coming Young Playwrights. Tech and Production runs March 29 – April 11. Auditions: Sunday January 10 (10:00 AM-6:00 PM) and Monday January 11 (5:00 PM to 9:00 PM) in Room 122 of the BC Binning Studios. Please prepare two contrasting contemporary monologues of no more than 2 minutes each in length.
Sign up by filling out our online form at: http://bravenew.wufoo.com/forms/brave-new-play-rites-2010-audition-sign-up/
If you have any questions please email bravenewplayrites@gmail.com
We look forward to seeing you soon!
November 19th, 2009 The Editor Posted in Events, Stage, Students, Faculty, and Alumni, UBC Creative Writing No Comments »
Our MFA grad Tetsuro Shigematsu is currently playing in After the Quake, a play that takes its audience on a journey where magic and realism collide, in an exploration of disrupted reality. Please come to support him!
Show Times:
8 pm Tue - Sat, Nov 19 - Dec 5 (opens Nov 20)
2 pm matinees on Nov 22, 29 and Dec 5
Place: at Studio 16 (1545 W. 7th Ave)
Tickets from $15 atVancouvertix.com
Tickets also at the door, based on availability. (box office opens one hour prior to showtime, and accepts cash only.)
October 23rd, 2009 The Editor Posted in Events, Stage, Students, Faculty, and Alumni, UBC Creative Writing No Comments »
Our MFA Grad Dave Deveau’s success in stageplay! Welcome all to attend:
Zee Zee Theatre presents
in association with Screaming Weenie Productions
part of the See Seven Subscription Series
Nelly Boy
by Dave Deveau (MFA Playwriting, 2008)
Though biologically male, 15-year-old Nelly is hardly a boy. Not everything can be as black and white. A tumultuous teenager in a family who fundamentally can’t understand gender difference, living in the shadow of twin sisters and grappling with complicated gender expression, Nelly’s suburban life and identity come head to head.
After being taken in by police for running naked along the only highway out of the suburbs, Nelly ushers us into a world of opposing gender ideals, hatred, and his/her own perceptions of the world in order to survive. The ongoing search for truth becomes the primary thrust of Nelly’s world, as an unknown man brings every step of Nelly’s story into question. But at the core of the tale sits the inner workings of a brilliant teenage mind trying to grapple with the greater picture.
Event Details:
October 22-November 1
PAL Theatre (581 Cardero Street at Georgia)
Tickets available at www.ticketstonight.ca
More information at www.zeezeetheatre.ca
Read the article in Xtra! West: http://www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/Blurring_the_gender_landscape-7616.aspx
April 11th, 2009 The Editor Posted in Stage, Students, Faculty, and Alumni, UBC Creative Writing No Comments »
Recent MFA grad Dave Deveau’s thesis play – Map of the West — just received an Honourable Mention in the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition, one of the biggest playwriting competitions in Canada.
Full details: http://www.queensu.ca/drama/voaden/Voaden.htm
Congrats Dave!
March 31st, 2009 The Editor Posted in Events, Stage, Students, Faculty, and Alumni, UBC Creative Writing No Comments »
Brave New Play Rites — UBC’s festival of original one-act plays — begins this Wednesday, April 1st and runs until April 5th:
A quadrapelgic woman longs for her hotrod. Frankenstein’s monster copes with his dysfunctional family. Knives are thrown. Public hair, exposed. Lies, revealed. Come join us for this fearlessly creative UBC tradition, an opportunity to see the new work of emerging playwrights, directors, and performers. The show features twelve new, daring one-act plays, each written, directed, and designed by students from UBC’s acclaimed Theatre and Creative Writing programs.
The students work under the direction of professors John Cooper, Bryan Wade, and Jayson McLean.
This year’s show includes plays written by both MFA and BFA creative writing students. Eclectic and bold, these pieces challenge and entertain with a mix of comedy and drama. This is where Canada’s groundbreaking theatre is born!
Event Details:
Brave New Play Rites
April 1 till 5th (8pm each night)
Dorothy Somerset Studios @ UBC
6361 University Blvd, Vancouver
For full details, please visit http://bravenew.ca
March 20th, 2009 The Editor Posted in Events, Stage, Students, Faculty, and Alumni, UBC Creative Writing No Comments »
The Sunday Sessions Reading Series at UBC concludes with a staged script-in-hand reading of MFA candidate John Mavin’s full-length thesis play, Sanctuary, at the BC Binning Studios.
The play, which runs a little over an hour and a half, tells the story of an ambitious young Anglican priest confronted with a Colombian expatriate hiding from a troubled past. Free admission and Q&A to follow.
Event Details:
Sunday, March 29 (7:00 p.m.)
BC Binning Studios, UBC
6373 University Blvd, Vancouver
Free admission.
Presented by the Sunday Sessions Reading Series.
March 15th, 2009 The Editor Posted in Other Opportunities, Poetry, Stage No Comments »
The Capilano Review (TCR) is seeking work for a special issue of poet’s theatre to be published in spring 2010:
Poet’s theatre is imagined to be a wide range of cross-genre practices that draw on the resources of both text-based poetic / narrative work and theatrical / performance forms. We seek texts that experiment with dramatic genres and conventions and texts that score for performance.
Complete details after the jump…
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February 26th, 2009 The Editor Posted in Events, Stage, Students, Faculty, and Alumni, UBC Creative Writing No Comments »
Ever wondered what the illegitimate child of Monty Python and Samuel Beckett would look like? Come out this Sunday and see for yourself with a reading of Bulletproof Puppies - the latest work by MFA Playwriting candidate, Joel Babcock.
Presented by the Sunday Sessions Reading Series at UBC.
Event Details
Sunday, March 1st (7:30 p.m.)
Dorothy Somerset Studio Theater, UBC
6361 University Blvd, Vancouver
Free admission. Q&A to follow after show.
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