Follow the music: The Tempest Project leads audiences on a journey of discovery
The Tempest Project presented by Music on Main July 17 – 22, 2024 | The Vancouver Playhouse On an island full of magic and intrigue, the characters of Shakespeare’s The Tempest are on a journey of discovery — of the island itself, and of themselves. Audiences that arrive at The Vancouver Playhouse for The Tempest Project will find themselves in a similar position. Although the venue may be familiar, the way in which it’s used for this production is anything but. After choosing one of six colour-coded adventures, groups of up to twenty audience members follow the corresponding glowing wand
The Mirror reveals contemporary circus at its best
The Mirror by Gravity and Other Myths presented by DanceHouse and The Cultch January 24 – 27 | Vancouver Playhouse A hand reaches through the black stage curtain, fumbling as it tries to turn on a boombox. Giving up on that, the body attached to the hand emerges from behind the curtain and moves the boombox, which is perched atop a stand, to sit in front of a microphone. As singer Megan Drury pauses on a catchy song on the radio, the curtains open to reveal the rest of the company performing various dance moves or acrobatic tricks. With an improvisational,