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Get your theatre fix at Ensemble Theatre's Summer Repertory Festival

A Douglas College alumnus is onstage in Ensemble Theatre Company’s seventh annual Summer Repertory Festival. The festival is onstage July 10 to Aug. 16 at the Jericho Arts Centre, 1675 Discovery St. in Vancouver.
Ensemble Theatre Company, The Drawer Boy
From left, Chris Lam, James Gill and Darcey Johnson in The Drawer Boy, onstage as part of the Ensemble Theatre Company’s seventh annual Summer Repertory Festival.

A Douglas College alumnus is onstage in Ensemble Theatre Company’s seventh annual Summer Repertory Festival.

The festival is onstage July 10 to Aug. 16 at the Jericho Arts Centre, 1675 Discovery St. in Vancouver.

Chris Lam, who studied at Douglas College in New West, appears in The Drawer Boy. Michael Healey’s 1999 play tells the story of a young theatre actor from the city, Miles (played by Lam), who arrives at the rural home of Angus and Morgan, two aging bachelor farmers. He intends to write a play based on their stories – but soon discovers more than he anticipated.

It’s in preview Wednesday, July 10 and opens Friday, July 12.

It alternates evenings with Garson Kanin’s Born Yesterday (preview July 11, opening July 13) and Tracy Letts’ Superior Donuts (preview July 18, opening July 19).

“Theatre brings us together to celebrate, challenge and provoke through the telling of stories,” said Tariq Leslie, artistic director of Ensemble Theatre Company, in a press release. “The plays we have programmed for our seventh season embrace conversations about what our culture was, is and could be – the stories we tell ourselves and the truths we all share – each one filled with humour and with pathos.”

Single tickets start at $25. See www.ensembletheatrecompany.ca for full details and a performance calendar.