The Firehall is thrilled to announce our coming season!
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Bringing forward themes of multiculturalism and environmental issues, we open our stage to new and exciting productions such as Action at a Distance’s Never Still and THE ENEMY – a contemporary adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People.
Watch for the return of the critically acclaimed musical CIRCLE GAME: Reimagining the music of Joni Mitchell and the always popular BC Buds Festival.
Not to be missed are Alley Theatre/Firehall Arts Centre production of The Good Bride; from Montreal, The Tashme Project; Fringe Festival hit Arosh Irani’s Bombay Black; Ruby Slippers production of Marine Life, The Biting School’s Cain and Abel and Touchstone Theatre’s production of Kill Me Now.
Coming to our stage is also Solstice Greetings, an evening of seasonal stories and songs from many cultures and many experiences celebrating the return of the light. Closing the season, we have Gold Mountain – Turtle Island, a Firehall production telling the love story set in the early fifties between a young First Nation’s woman and a Chinese cafe worker set on the North Coast and in Vancouver’s Chinatown.
Check below for all the dates!
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NEVER STILL
September 26-29th
Action at a Distance/Vanessa Goodman
A Firehall Arts Centre presentation
Inspired by the inherent conflicts and dichotomies of water, this graceful and highly physical new dance work explores social, environmental and biological themes.
CAIN AND ABEL
October 3-6th
The Biting School/ Aryo & Arash Khakpour
A Firehall Arts Centre presentation
Two artistic brothers explore the themes and conflicts within this legendary story. Brotherly love or?
KILL ME NOW
October 13-27th
Written by Brad Fraser
A Touchstone Theatre Production
Jake is a single dad and cares for his teen son, Joey, who has a severe disability. When Jake develops a serious medical condition he becomes the one to rely on the people around him. Touchstone Artistic Director, Roy Surette directs this frank, fearless and ferociously funny play.
THE ENEMY
November 10-Dec 1st
Adapted by Donna Spencer
A Firehall Arts Centre Production
In this contemporary interpretation of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, a female Dr. Stockman discovers contamination in the community’s water source and is branded an enemy and accused of destroying the local economy. Economic benefits vs. Community health and well-being. Who is the enemy?
BOMBAY BLACK
Dec 5-15th
By Anosh Irani
A Firehall Arts Centre presentation
Directed and Produced by Rohit Chokhani
The lives of an Indian exotic dancer and her embittered mother are altered when a blind stranger visits them. Poetic, mythic, funny and brave this searing play is set in the bitter reality of India and wowed audiences at the 2017 Vancouver Fringe Festival winning a Pick of the Fringe Award.
SOLSTICE GREETINGS
Dec 20-22nd
A Firehall Arts Centre production
An evening of seasonal stories and songs from many cultures and many experiences celebrating the return of the light.
CIRCLE GAME: Reimagining the Music of Joni Mitchell
January 12-Feb 9th
Co-directed and co-created by Andrew Cohen and Anna Kuman
This powerful interpretation of Joni Mitchell music returns to the Firehall stage. “The freshness and artistry of Circle Game completely won me over” Jerry Wasserman, Vancouver Sun.
THE GOOD BRIDE
February 27-March 9th
Written by Rosemary Rowe
An Alley Theatre/Firehall Arts Centre production
Directed by Donna Spencer
Starring: Marisa Emma Smith
Every day from 3pm to midnight, 15 year old Maranatha puts on her wedding dress and hopes that today her 28 year old groom will come to claim her. Winner of Edmonton Sterling Award for “Outstanding New Play”, The Good Bride, is a provocative, funny and strangely unnerving nuanced exploration of faith in the context of religious fundamentalism.
MARINE LIFE
March 15-23rd
Written by Rosa Laborde
A Ruby Slippers Theatre production in association with The Firehall Arts Centre
Directed by Ruby Slippers’ Artistic Director Diane Brown, this play tells the story of an environmental activist who falls in love with her opposite while her co-dependent brother spirals into chaotic self-destruction. Incorporating magic realism, live music and crackling wit, Marine Life is a dark romantic comedy that cleverly links our lack of skills around human intimacy with our inability to care for our plane
THE TASHME PROJECT: The Living Archive
April 3-13th
A verbatim theatre project created by Julie Tamiko Manning and Matt Miwa
Created from interviews with thirty Nisei or second generation Japanese Canadians this play traces the history of the Nisei through childhood, internment and post-WWII resettlement east of the Rockies. Memories of adventure and play are presented in sharp relief to the common internment narratives of hardship and injustice.
BC Buds – Firehall’s Spring Arts Fair
April 24-27th
Back by popular demand BC Buds will showcase new play readings, choreographies and more from emerging and established theatre and dance artists.
GOLD MOUNTAIN – TURTLE ISLAND
May 1-4th
A Firehall workshop production
A musical love story set in the early fifties between a young First Nation’s woman and a Chinese cafe worker set on the North Coast and in Vancouver’s Chinatown.
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