10 posts tagged “theatre”

Available here:  Arts Beat
and here:  Vancouver Plays

Bride_7373

To everyone who has neither seen nor heard from me, here it is, my thesis, the grand and messy play I have been cooking up with an amazing company of artists:

It is two weeks until the opening of Big Love, where fifty brides flee their fifty grooms and seek refuge in a villa on the coast of Italy in a modern re-making of one of the western world's oldest plays, The Danaids by Aeschylus. The fifty grooms catch up with the brides, and mayhem ensues: the grooms arriving by helicopter, women throwing themselves over and over again to the ground, pop songs and romantic dances, and, finally, unable to escape their forced marriages, 49 of the brides murder 49 of the grooms—and one bride falls in love. About the same odds as today.

by Charles L. Mee
Directed by Joanna Garfinkel
January 24 - February 3, 2007

TELUS Studio Theatre
6265 Crescent Rd, Gate 3 UBC campus

RUN: Jan 24 – Feb 3, 2007 / OPENING NIGHT: Thur, Jan 25, 7:30PM

there will be a reception following the opening night performance

CURTAIN: 7:30pm Mon - Sat / TICKETS: $20, $14 & $12

To Book Call: 604.822.2678

More information and tickets at http://www.theatre.ubc.ca/big_love/index.shtml

photo credit:  Tim Matheson

While waiting to post final pictures from The Skin of Our Teeth, I'm going to start showing the workings of Big Love here.  Our designer has started a website for source material, it's fairly empty right now, but promises to be full of pictures and sketches and more, soon.

Can be found in The Globe and Mail.

To buy tickets for The Skin of Our Teeth here.
The play will be at the Frederic Wood Theatre.  You can use the wayfinding link from the last sentence, or know that it is almost across the street from the Museum of Anthropology.