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Past productions:
Our critically acclaimed first production in 2003 was an adaptation of Constance Skinner’s Birthright which was mounted at the Jericho Arts Centre. The play, though written by BC’s first professional playwright in 1905, had never before been produced in Canadadespite its acclaim in the US and Skinners’ enormous fame there. Joan Bryans’ adaptation of Birthright has been published by Playwrights Canada Press (2005, ISBN: 0-88754-752-4)
Our second production was Two Years in Nicola, a new play by Joan Bryans based on the life of Jessie and Annie MacQueen (two sisters who came west from Nova Scotia to the interior of British Columbia in 1887). It was mounted in Vancouver, and Kamloops, in October 2005.
May 2008 saw the opening of Socrates on Trial which ran to great success at the Telus Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Adapted by Andrew Irvine from the works of Aristophanes and Plato, Socrates on Trial challenges audiences to decide whether Socrates really was guilty as changed and deserved the death penalty, whether there can ever be ideas so dangerous they must be stopped no matter what.
Our next production brought with it another trial, but of a very different sort. By Some Divine Mistake concentrated on the story of Alma Rattenbury, famous song writer and seductress, who was charged, with her lover, with the murder of her husband, BC's famous architect Frances Rattenbury. By Some Divine Mistake ran in Vancouver in October 2008.
Next, in 2010, came Theatrics at Mansfield Park, which was based on the work of Jane Austen. Audience members, seated at small tables, and served a hot mulled drink and regency pastries were entertained to a Regency style winter entertainment.
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