By Sarah Cruickshank on September 28, 2011
Did you ever attend your high school reunion? Ever experience that eerie feeling that while at first glance everyone looks older and more mature, after ten minutes of milling around with your drink in your hand, you realize that everyone there is exactly the same? Notorious playwright Brad Fraser knows what we mean, and has [...]
Posted in 1112 Presentations, playwrights
By Jenna Livergant on September 12, 2011
The sudden return of a gay ex-lover; decades-old secrets discovered at last; the bawdy sex-capades of a family in crisis. Sure, it reads a bit like a soap opera script. But would you believe that this sinfully explosive portrait of truth, lies, sex, and betrayal is borrowed from the real life experience of controversial Canadian [...]
Posted in 1112 Presentations, playwrights | Tagged Brad Fraser, playwrights, playwriting, True Love Lies
By Sarah Cruickshank on June 21, 2011
Here at The Cultch, we’re all about fostering creativity. Whether it’s music, theatre or dance on our stages, or visual art in our gallery, we want to see artists succeed and do what we can to give them a hand. Of course, one of the greatest ways we help by seeking out incredible local, national [...]
Posted in Curators-in-Residence program, playwrights | Tagged artists in residence
By The Cultch on May 4, 2011
From April 25 to 30, The Cultch was taken over by eager and energetic youth for the IGNITE! Youth Festival. Hundreds of youth from across the Lower Mainland came together for a week of amazing performances. We caught up with youth playwright Chris Nyarady about the experience of seeing his play Hide and Go Sell [...]
Posted in 10/11 Presentations, playwrights, The Cultch's Youth Program
By Sarah Cruickshank on March 18, 2011
Surveillance, control, 13 screens and a love story: Andy Thompson adapts George Orwell’s 1984 for The Cultch’s stage. Travel back to 1984 to witness a dystopic future at The Cultch. Vancouver’s The Virtual Stage and the legendary professional theatre training program Studio 58 at Langara College are teaming up in a theatrical adaptation of George [...]
Posted in 10/11 Presentations, playwrights
By Denise Higginson on January 12, 2011
Waawaate Fobister describes himself as an actor, playwright, dancer, choregrapher and storyteller, and he both wrote and acts in his one man show, Agokwe. When he was given his First Nations spiritual name “Waawaate”, the medicine woman who gave him the name visualized the northern lights – which to Waawaate symbolized spirits dancing and telling [...]
Posted in 10/11 Presentations, playwrights
By Laura Tennant on July 22, 2010
Make way for the Neanderthal Arts Festival, a new, adventurous festival lumbering over to The Cultch this summer. This festival will highlight bold, innovative work from visionary artists and will run from July 21st to August 1st at The Cultch. One of these local visionary artists is The Cultch’s very own Head Front of House [...]
Posted in playwrights
By Leanne Perry on April 28, 2010
10 THINGS you’ll HATE about ME is a Molotov cocktail of spectacle, dance and desire from choreographer/performer Noam Gagnon. Organized as a series of deeply personal vignettes, 10 THINGS walks the tissue-thin line between art and autobiography. What can the audience expect from 10 Things? For 10 Things, I want to take the audience into [...]
Posted in 09/10 Presentations, backstage, playwrights
By Leanne Perry on April 6, 2010
Ali and Ali 7: Hey Brother (Or Sister) Can You Spare Some Hope and Change? is a follow-up to Ali and Ali and the aXes of Evil. Can you tell me about the characters and original story? Marcus Youssef (MY): The characters were two Arab/Persian stereotypes Cam and I played improv games with in our [...]
Posted in 09/10 Presentations, playwrights
By Leanne Perry on March 9, 2010
Joey Tremblay’s Elephant Wake is a profound character study about Jean Claude, the last man standing in a defunct francophone village in Saskatchewan. It is a unique, yet universal, coming-of-age story inspired by Tremblay’s own experiences growing up in the now-extinct Saskatchewan town of Ste. Marthe, near the current boom town of Rocanville. For Tremblay, [...]
Posted in 09/10 Presentations, playwrights
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