The UBC Players Club is proud to announce our co-production of Dear Elizabeth, a Vancouver Fringe Festival Production with Wunderdog Theatre! Integrating new technology with traditional theatrical conventions, Wunderdog Theatre is a Canadian theatre company that explores new ways to tell classic and critically acclaimed stories, examining the way we consume narrative in a digital
Jessica Kim “Vagrant Players Theatre Society presents a one act comedy about the politics of friendship. Washington DC twenty-somethings Stu and Ben are bored, stoned, and spending another night inexpertly dissecting senatorial vote-trading when a parking ticket sends Stu over the edge. As he plots to rid America of political misbehaviour once and for all,
An upcoming Vancouver Fringe Festival show, The Bridge, is looking for a Stage Manager! The show was most recently toured in Australia by the writers/actors Caitlin Docking and Nick Rinke, two local Vancouver theatre artists. Their original stage manager is living in Australia and they need someone to fill in for their Fringe run in September.
Hello, Players! We have some crew opportunity from PC Alumni! Here’s what he has to say: “This is a non-traditional immersive theatre production happening in Bear Creek Park, Surrey. Based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Slumber Here places audience in the role of the humans lost in a fairy court, interacting with a unique video-game
Pictured: Erla Faye Forsyth and Simon Webb in Tolkien. Photo by Damon Calderwood. Sebastian Ochoa Mendoza Tolkien, written and directed by Ron Reed, is a new production staged by Vancouver’s Pacific Theatre, for which Reed works as the artistic director. I caught the opening night of the production, and was instantly intrigued by the alley stage
Pictured: Top Row (L-R): Ricardo Pequenino, Alexandra Quispe, Sari Rosofsky, YooRa Kang Bottom Row (L-R): Michael Gnansounou, Brianna Clark Jessica Kim How to describe this musical? I think it’s best to go with “Moana meets The Little Mermaid“. Once On This Island by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Falherty is told as a story or folktale
Hello, Players! It’s time to think about the mainstage production for the next school year! Do you want to direct a mainstage production this fall AND choose which play? Look no further. Any aspiring director, experienced or inexperienced, can apply by filling out the UBC PC Mainstage Proposal Form and emailing it over to productions@ubcplayersclub.com
Jessica Kim “If God had known about Hawaiian pizza, there would have been a loophole in this whole kosher thing.” What does it mean to believe? Sometimes we put in so much significance in something that we don’t stop to think why. Bar Mitzvah Boy by Mark Leiren-Young, directed by Ian Farthing, attempts to answer
Hey Players! The UBC English department is looking for actors for a stage reading of selected scenes from Crabdance, a play by Canadian playwright, Beverley Simons. Crabdance is a tragicomedy in which a lonely, middle-aged women plays elaborate, ritualistic games with three men whom she forces to play the roles of her son, her husband, and her lover. The
Jessica Kim Grief finds us in many different ways and dealt with equally many different ways. It comes to us for those that are dead or those who are simply lost to us. We weep, we curse and we sometimes follow some meticulous, meaningless but meaningful procedures to forget, to remember and to honor. Pacific