This story was updated Sept. 4 with additional information about The Shape of Things.
A family drama featuring grieving parents. A “subatomic pop opera” featuring a hipster band and quantum physics student. A musical delving deep into its creators’ inner voices.
Sounds like Fringe time again.
The Vancouver Fringe Festival returns to stages around the city from Sept. 6 to 16. Over its 11 days, more than 30 different theatre artists and companies present more than 700 performances – with work representing a huge range of genres and subject matter, for audiences of all kinds.
Check out www.vancouverfringe.com for all the details.
Here are some New West connections to shows in this year’s Vancouver Fringe Festival:
RABBIT HOLE
Burnaby-based Frolicking Divas Theatre presents David Lindsay-Abaire’s award winning play Rabbit Hole, about a couple who have everything a family could want – until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down. It’s produced by New Westminster’s Braden Lock and Lori Watt, a Burnaby resident who’ll be known to many in New West as a former school trustee. Watt also stars as Becca.
It’s on at the Vancity Culture Lab Sept. 6, 9, 10, 12, 15 and 16.
FLUTE LOOPS
Devon More’s newest creation is summarized thus: “With the latest viral hipster band due onstage any moment, a quantum physics student under the influence (of Stephen Hawking) is warping space-time..! Quarks, quirks, and the substance of sound collide in a subatomic pop opera where anything that can happen does.” More, of course, is the driving force behind Way Off-Broadway Wednesdays at the Heritage Grill right here in New West, and she’ll be familiar to New West audiences from her previous show Berlin Waltz.
It’s on at The Cultch Historic Theatre Sept. 8, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 16.
THE SHAPE OF THINGS
New Westminster’s Heckin’ Good Theatre presents Neil Labute’s The Shape of Things, billed as “a biting tale of love, lust and betrayal.” It’s the story of the shy and sheltered Adam, who meets art student and would-be vandal Evelyn – who brings chaos and rebellion to Adam’s life with the revelation of a shocking secret .New West actor Julian Legere stars as Adam, alongside Fairlith Harvey’s Evelyn. Harrison MacDonald and Marissa Burton also star in the play directed by Chelsey Stuyt.
It’s on at Vancity Culture Lab Sept. 7, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 15.
INSIDE VOICES: A MUSICAL IN THE KEY OF P
Developed during an artist in residency term at the Anvil Centre, this production by Jennifer Pielak and Peter Abando explores those voices inside our heads that we’d all prefer people not to know about. With Abando at the piano, the show offers up what its creators describe as musical theatre, improvisation and an experiment – featuring song, storytelling and a whole lot of baring their souls.
It’s on at the Firehall Arts Centre Sept. 6, 9, 11, 14, 15 and 16.
