• Jun 12 – Jun 20

    2021

    1 Hour Photo mounted virtually by the East West Players

    East West Players will present Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (vAct)’s production of 1 Hour Photo by Tetsuro Shigematsu. Called “superbly written and performed,” (Review Vancouver), 1 Hour Photo is a true, moving portrait of a Japanese Canadian man’s quest to find beauty in the depths of a savage century, as he journeys from finding love in a WWII incarceration camp to rebuilding his life as a scientist, businessman, and father. A heartfelt exploration of a life well-lived, 1 Hour Photo employs the use of intricately crafted miniatures to explore the artifact of Mas Yamamoto’s life inside and beyond internment.

    June 12-20, 2021
    East West Players
    Virtual presentation
    Visit East West Players’ website for more information.


  • Aug 10 – Aug 28

    2021

    Cottagers and Indians at North Rustico, PEI

    Drew Hayden Taylor’s Cottagers and Indians will be performed from August 10 to 28, 2021, in North Rustico, PEI.

    Cottagers and Indians explores the politics and issues surrounding a real-life event still occurring in the Kawartha Lakes region of Central Ontario. An Indigenous man, Arthur Copper, has taken it upon himself to repopulate the nearby lakes with wild rice, known amongst the Anishnawbe as Manoomin, much to the disapproval of the local non-Indigenous cottagers, Maureen Poole in particular. She feels the plant interferes with boating, fishing, swimming, and is generally an eyesore that brings down the property values of her cottage and those of her neighbours. Drew Hayden Taylor’s thirty-second play is a powerful dramatization of contemporary confrontations taking place between environmentalism and consumerism, Indigenous and non-Indigenous sensibilities.

    August 10 to 28
    Watermark Theatre
    57 Church Hill Avenue
    North Rustico, PE
    C0A 1X0

    More info here