Emerging Directors’ Showcase

Date(s): Saturday, April 30
Time: 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Location: : UFV Performance Theatre

April 28—May 1

The Emerging Directors’ Showcase is the final project presented by UFV Theatre’s fourth-year directing class. The series of edgy, electrifying and experimental ten-minute plays are arranged into four blocks of four performances. Audiences can choose to see one block of four shows or all sixteen.

Tickets to a single block of four plays are at an accessible rate of $10, tickets to two blocks are just $15, and tickets for all four blocks are $25. Tickets can be purchased at the Theatre box office throughout the month of April and before each performance; please contact 604-795-2814 or theatre@ufv.ca for information about box office hours.

Performance Dates and Schedule:

April 28 Block A 7:00 p.m. & Block B 8:30 p.m.

April 29 Block C 7:00 p.m. & Block D 8:30 p.m., followed by a talkback at 10:00 p.m.

April 30 Block A 7:00 p.m. & Block B 8:30 p.m., followed by a talkback at 10:00 p.m.

May 1 Block C 2:00 p.m. & Block D 3:30 p.m. Special free event at 7 pm (RSVP required to theatre@ufv.ca): UFV Honorary degree recipient and performance artist Margo Kane returns to UFV.

Block A: Letters to Michael, dir. Kyra Esau; Hold for Three, dir. Courtney Kelley; On the Way to Mars, dir. Kirstin Stewart; The Waiting Game, dir. Phay Gagnon; Phillip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread, dir. Noel Funk

Block B: Artistique-le-Odeur, dir. Eli Moores; The Harlequin Maneuver, dir. Trudy-Bridgette Smith; One Tennis Shoe, dir. Karliana DeWolff; If I Were A Train, dir. Matthew Piton

Block C: Letters to Michael, dir. Kyra Esau; The Why’s in our World, dir. Natasha Beaumont; Talk with Tinkers, dir. Reilly Ellis; Mint Juleps, dir. Emily MacKinnon

Block D: A Conversation, dir. Desiree Hale; Aspiring Francine, dir. Nial Harrison-Morry; Cindy and Julie, dir. Alexis Clift; Evanescence, or Shakespeare in the Alley, dir. Michael Scoular