2009

TAPE

Company:

Alley Theatre

Duration:

30 minutes

Venue:

Waldorf Theatre

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Directed by Amiel Gladstone and starring Daniel Arnold, Marisa Smith and Matthew Kowalchuk, Tape is a psychological drama about three high school friends reunited in a motel room 10 years later, confronting a life-changing event from their past. An intimate and unique theatrical experience, this production of Tape is a site-specific performance where the audience is led into the actual motel room, directly into the world of the play. Secrets are revealed, relationships changed, and truth is elusive...even when it's on tape.

Showtimes

Sep 10 - 7:00 PM

Sep 10 - 9:00 PM

Sep 11 - 7:00 PM

Sep 11 - 9:00 PM

Sep 12 - 7:00 PM

Sep 12 - 9:00 PM

Sep 13 - 2:00 PM

Sep 13 - 4:00 PM

Sep 15 - 7:00 PM

Sep 15 - 9:00 PM

Sep 16 - 9:00 PM

Sep 16 - 7:00 PM

Sep 17 - 7:00 PM

Sep 17 - 9:00 PM

Sep 18 - 7:00 PM

Sep 18 - 9:00 PM

Sep 19 - 7:00 PM

Sep 19 - 9:00 PM

Sep 20 - 2:00 PM

Sep 20 - 4:00 PM

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Location:

Vancouver

Year:

2009

Some Reckless Abandon

Company:

To the Moon Productions

Duration:

70 minutes

Venue:

Waterfront Theatre

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Veteran performer Cara Yeates (Bye Bye Bombay, Knee Deep in Muck) is Madeleine Cross, barely eighteen, full of bravado, and is so determined to ditch her hometown, she signs up for "Teenage Jesus Girls Camp" in Honduras. But there is inevitable trouble in Paradise. Pining for her absentee cowboy and feeling wary of the Jesus fan club, her desire for escape smolders. A fiery getaway is unavoidable. Lori Triolo directs Leah Bailly's play, a one-woman tour de force, recalling first departures and teen love, taking audiences deep into missionary culture.

"Cara Yeates is a revelation from the beginning to end." -CBC

Showtimes

Sep 11 - 8:40 PM

Sep 12 - 10:25 PM

Sep 13 - 2:55 PM

Sep 15 - 9:40 PM

Sep 17 - 8:50 PM

Sep 19 - 3:30 PM

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Location:

Vancouver

Year:

2009

Shotgun

Company:

Rush'in Undies

Duration:

60 minutes

Venue:

Pacific Theatre

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Shotgun: The cramped, comic, and cathartic culture of four commuters."

Spending two hours a day with work colleagues in a cramped vehicle can take its toll. Four private school teachers commute everyday to their school in the Lower Mainland. The cramped quarters of the carpool force them to unwillingly reveal deep, personal and private information that not even their close friends or partners know about them. Is the small amount of money they save on gas worth the pain that they endure on a daily basis?

Showtimes

Sep 11 - 5:00 PM

Sep 12 - 2:00 PM

Sep 12 - 7:00 PM

Sep 16 - 11:00 PM

Sep 17 - 8:30 PM

Sep 18 - 6:30 PM

Sep 19 - 12:00 PM

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Location:

Vancouver

Year:

2009

Red Bastard

Company:

Red Bastard

Duration:

60 minutes

Venue:

Waterfront Theatre

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Red Bastard is a dangerous, seductive, comedy-monster! His mission: to charm, disarm, shock and seduce. His target: you! Anything can happen in this interactive master class, in which America's premiere buffoon becomes an elitist movement teacher who instructs us on "the theatre of life."

"Very, very funny." - NY Times

"One of the premiere clowns of our time." - Gothamist

Showtimes

Sep 10 - 8:30 PM

Sep 12 - 1:00 PM

Sep 13 - 10:30 PM

Sep 17 - 6:55 PM

Sep 19 - 5:35 PM

Sep 20 - 3:15 PM

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Location:

Vancouver

Year:

2009

pornSTar

Company:

Fancy Molasses Productions

Duration:

65 minutes

Venue:

Performance Works

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Small town librarian Esther never thought she would become a porn star. That was before she found out her ex-boyfriend secretly videotaped her having sex and sold the tape for money. Hilarious and raunchy, don't miss this sell out show by off-Broadway playwright Chris Craddock.

"Wyman delivers a stunning performance." **** - CBC, 2008

***** - CBC, 2005

**** - Winnipeg Sun, 2008

Showtimes

Sep 11 - 7:00 PM

Sep 12 - 2:45 PM

Sep 13 - 4:55 PM

Sep 14 - 9:55 PM

Sep 18 - 8:55 PM

Sep 19 - 2:00 PM

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Location:

Vancouver

Year:

2009

Oh Winnipeg! A Surprising Musical Memoir

Company:

Bit by Bit Productions

Duration:

50 minutes

Venue:

Havana

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What happens when the kids leave home? For John Pippus, the answer was recovering his musical roots. This one man dramatic comedy explores growing up in 1950's Winnipeg, surprising musical influences, and the craziness of life on the road and beyond. The Vancouver Province says singer/songwriter John Pippus is "a refined tunesmith with serious pop hooks.

Showtimes

Sep 11 - 8:15 PM

Sep 12 - 6:00 PM

Sep 13 - 9:00 PM

Sep 14 - 7:15 PM

Sep 16 - 7:15 PM

Sep 17 - 7:15 PM

Sep 18 - 8:15 PM

Sep 19 - 8:45 PM

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Location:

Vancouver

Year:

2009

nggrfg

Company:

Guy Un-Disguised & Small Brown Package Productions

Duration:

60 minutes

Venue:

Waterfront Theatre

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A revealing and hilarious one-man tour-de-force about a queer black kid negotiating the bewildering minefield of straight white Canada: from the schoolyard, to the perils of dating, to the "glamour" of showbiz. From the award-winning creator of the outrageous and controversial Fringe hit Get Off The Cross, Mary.

Directed by Denis Simpson.

Showtimes

Sep 10 - 10:25 PM

Sep 12 - 6:45 PM

Sep 14 - 7:40 PM

Sep 16 - 8:30 PM

Sep 18 - 10:35 PM

Sep 20 - 8:45 PM

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Location:

Vancouver

Year:

2009

murder, hope

Company:

Infinity Live Productions

Duration:

60 minutes

Venue:

Playwrights Theatre Centre

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murder, hope is a new solo show about pop-neurology, neuroplasticity, and one family's history with the rare brain disorder called Landau-Kleffner Syndrome. A non-linear piece that incorporates Appalachian murder ballads, Batman, YouTube and the musical saw, it is an explosive collage of compelling ideas and off-balance characters.

"quietly harrowing." -The Stranger

"hilariously charming" -New York Theatre

Showtimes

Sep 10 - 8:35 PM

Sep 12 - 1:30 PM

Sep 13 - 10:15 PM

Sep 17 - 6:55 PM

Sep 19 - 5:50 PM

Sep 20 - 3:15 PM

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Location:

Vancouver

Year:

2009

Matters Domestic

Company:

William B. Davis Productions

Duration:

60 minutes

Venue:

Studio 16

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Gender and generation, those unrepentant offspring of our selfish genes, trigger most of the ancient ongoing personal conflicts of our species. No matter when or how we live -- rich, poor, urban, rural -- these genetic twins make mischief with human beings everywhere. Matters Domestic presents two short plays -- "D.N.A." and "Download" -- to explore this legacy of strife in our time.

Showtimes

Sep 11 - 10:10 PM

Sep 12 - 4:15 PM

Sep 13 - 1:30 PM

Sep 16 - 6:45 PM

Sep 18 - 5:00 PM
Sep 19 - 7:55 PM

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Location:

Vancouver

Year:

2009

Little White Lies

Company:

Lesser Men Productions

Duration:

45 minutes

Venue:

Origins Organic Coffee Co

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When Gerry was 18 years old she couldn't seem to tell the truth. She recounts how her dishonesty and attention seeking behavior destroyed her splendid home life - ultimately forcing her on a journey of self discovery and personal growth. A tragic comedy about identity.

Showtimes

Sep 10 - 8:45 PM

Sep 12 - 7:30 PM

Sep 13 - 1:45 PM

Sep 14 - 9:00 PM

Sep 16 - 9:00 PM

Sep 18 - 7:30 PM

Sep 19 - 7:30 PM

Sep 20 - 5:05 PM

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Location:

Vancouver