Diptych (The Missing Door and the Lost Room) | Peeping Tom | DanceHouse | Vancouver Playhouse | April 24 – 26, 2025 A man sits slumped over in his chair. A woman lies face down on the floor; she’s suddenly dragged away through a door. We are immediately drawn into the surreal world of Diptych, where the laws of gravity are flexible, and the boundaries of reality are stretched. In a setting where everything is a bit off kilter, the characters on stage grapple with their own personal demons while struggling to understand the events around them. The man who
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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,