Theatre & Film Production Archives

2019/2020 Season:

BECKETT 19: or some such semblance
by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Gerald Vanderwoude
September 25 - 28, 2019
Frederic Wood Theatre

The 21^st annual UBC Theatre Alumni Fundraising Event, supporting the Peter Loeffler Memorial Prize, which goes to an undergraduate student majoring in Theatre, Beckett 19: or some such semblance, showcases four pieces from Beckett’s oeuvre that challenge, delight, and inspire. Come to the theatre and stay afterwards for the cake, the bubbly, and the always spirited discussion!

Timothy Findley's The Wars
Adapted by Dennis Garnhum
Directed by Lois Anderson
November 7 - 23, 2019
Frederic Wood Theatre

Adapted for the stage in 2007 by Dennis Garnhum (MFA Directing, 1993), Timothy Findley’s The Wars, his 1977 novel that won the Governor General’s Award for English Language Fiction, retains its poignantly poetic storytelling.

When Robert Ross, a tender-hearted idealist who shares a strong bond with his wheelchair-bound sister, trades his comfortable Canadian life for the harsh world of trench warfare in World War I, we watch his slow unravelling. This story takes us deep inside the mind of a soldier and catapults us into the mud, smoke, and chlorine gas of the front line in France during World War I. Ultimately life-affirming, in the hands of director and alumna, Lois Anderson (Bard on the Beach), this piece, staged by the graduate class of 2020, at an age similar to that of the characters, directly links to our world in 2019, showing that human connection is all.

The Changeling
by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
Directed by Luciana Silvestre Fernandes
January 16 - February 1, 2020
Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

“She that in life and love refuses me,
In death and shame, my partner she shall be.”

A tale of hidden sexual desires, bloody deeds, and characters who realize their intentions are less than pure, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling is one of the darkest and most sensual of the 17th century English tragedies.

The beautiful Beatrice, falls hard for Alsemero, who shares her feelings but Beatrice’s marriage to Alonzo de Piracquo, approved by her father Vermandero, is planned. Being a Jacobean tragedy, the solution turns to murder. Despite being repelled by his disfigured face, Beatrice enlists her father’s servant De Flores to do the deed, little realizing that he lusts after her and will refuse money, preferring, and eventually insisting upon, payment of another kind.

Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
Created by Hannah Moscovitch, Christian Barry, and Ben Caplan
January 24 - 30, 2020
Frederic Wood Theatre

Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story is a humorously dark folk tale woven together with a high- energy concert. This Klezmer music/theatre hybrid, starring genre-bending sensation Ben Caplan, is inspired by the true story of two Jewish Romanian refugees coming to Canada in 1908. It’s about how to love after being broken by the horrors of war. It’s about refugees who get out before it’s too late, and those who get out after it’s too late. And it’s about looking into the eyes of God.

Naked Cinema VI
Directed by Bart Anderson
January 27, 2020
Vancity Theatre

Students from UBC Theatre and Film Acting and Film Production come together to create something especially audacious: a new feature film developed collectively from scratch and stripped of all cinematic artifice inspired by Lars von Trier’s Dogme 95 Manifesto.

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.
by Alice Birch
Directed by Sloan Thompson
March 12 - 28, 2020
Frederic Wood Theatre

A non-linear, post-modern manifesto, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Alice Birch (2014) reacts ferociously to different aspects of life as a woman: sex, marriage, work, and family responsibility, to name a few. Radically critiquing our oppression of the feminine voice and body, each self-contained episode connects thematically in a feminist voice, not through tiny steps, but through a rioting race of deconstructing language, symbols, and institutions. In director Sloan Thompson’s able hands, the humour juxtaposes the visceral hit of the text, using our designers’ considerable talents that transform this amazing play off the page and onto the Frederic Wood Theatre stage.   

2018/2019 Season:

Beckett 18:It all... Ah, Well
by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Gerald Vanderwoude
September 26 - 29, 2018,
Frederic Wood Theatre

Much Ado about Nothing
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Lois Anderson
November 8 - 24, 2018
Frederic Wood Theatre

Lion in the Streets
by Judith Thompson
Directed by Michelle Thorne
January 17 - February 2, 2019
Preview: January 16
Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Award-winning Canadian playwright Judith Thompson’s seminal play Lion in the Streets centres around Isobel, the ghost of a murdered nine-year-old Portuguese girl. Returning to the neighbourhood seventeen years after her death, young Isobel drops into the lives of her neighbours and reveals the hauntingly raw underbelly of human nature. Ultimately hopeful, Lion in the Streets devours with devastating beauty.

"Prince Hamlet" from William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
Adapted and Directed by Ravi Jain
Produced by Why Not Theatre, Toronto
Presented with PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
January 23 - 27, 2019
Frederic Wood Theatre

Naked Cinema V: Exposed
Directed by Bart Anderson
Jan 28, 2019
Vancity Theatre

Inspired by Lars von Trier’s Dogma 95 Manifesto, Naked Cinema: Exposed focuses on the traditional storytelling values of story, theme and acting.
The entire Naked Cinema project was written and shot in six weeks with a group of fourteen actors and three directors. The collective started with absolutely nothing: no preplanned themes or story, just the sole intention of creating together.

Goldrausch
by Guillermo Calderón
Directed by Jenny Larson
March 14 - 30, 2019
Frederic Wood Theatre

2017/2018 Season:

Happy Days
By Samuel Beckett
Directed by Gerald Vanderwoude
September 27 - 30, 2017
Frederic Wood Theatre

Gerald Vanderwoude directs Beverly Bardal and Joe Procyk in the 19^th annual fundraising UBC Theatre Alumni event, supporting the Peter Loeffler student scholarship fund. Exploring the complexities of relationships, this absurdist piece pares them down to their most essential and raw. Beckett’s poetic use of language and form transports the characters of Winnie and Willie in his bitingly funny, often bittersweet play. Come for the theatre, stay for the post-show frivolities with cake, champagne, and bubbly discussion to follow each performance.

Wives and Daughters
By Jacqueline Firkins
Adapted from a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell
Directed by Courtenay Dobbie
November 9 – 25, 2017
Frederic Wood Theatre

(World Premiere)

— HONESTY IS RELATIVE, BUT RELATIVES AREN’T ALWAYS HONEST. —

Based on Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1860’s serial novel and adapted by UBC Theatre and Film Professor Jacqueline Firkins, Wives and Daughters tells the story of seventeen year old Molly, the daughter of a country doctor, whose life gets turned upside down when an overbearing stepmother and an impetuous stepsister move in, bringing with them a unique talent for improving people and a wealth of secrets. A feminist ahead of her time, Gaskell tackles the meaning of love in all its forms and the limitations society places on women as they pursue their desires.

She Kills Monsters
by Qui Nguyen
Directed by Keltie Forsyth
January 18 - February 3, 2018
Preview: January 17
Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

— IT’S ABOUT ADVENTURE AND SAVING THE WORLD AND HAVING MAGIC. —

In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres, and 90’s pop culture, acclaimed young playwright Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek within us all. Two years after the death of her teenage sister Tilly, Agnes Evans discovers a mysterious notebook containing her sister’s home-brewed Dungeons and Dragons campaign.  Newly born hero, Agnes the Ass-hatted, undertakes an epic quest to save Tilly’s soul and to learn about her sister’s hidden life.

King Arthur's Night
Written by Niall McNeil and Marcus Youssef
With Original Music Composed by Veda Hille
Directed by James Long
January 31 - February 4, 2018
Frederic Wood Theatre

— THIS ISN’T THE KING ARTHUR YOU KNOW. —

Written by longtime collaborators Niall McNeil, Marcus Youssef, and Veda Hille, King Arthur’s Night is epic in scale and features a radically inclusive ensemble of artists.  Refined, brutal, crude and tender, King Arthur’s Night tests what we know about the limits of theatre, language and our collective understanding of the narratives that are permitted to shape our world. Produced by Neworld Theatre (Vancouver, BC).

The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
Directed by Jessica Anne Nelson
March 15 - 31, 2018
Frederic Wood Theatre

Naked Cinema IV
Directed by Professor Tom Scholte
January 29, 2018
Frederic Wood Theatre

Created in collaboration with students from the Department of Theatre and Film

— STORY, ACTING AND THEME TO EMPOWER THE DIRECTOR AS ARTIST. —

Each year, students from the Department of Theatre and Film, spearheaded by award-winning Professor Tom Scholte, come together to create something especially audacious: a new feature film inspired by Lars von Trier’s Dogme 95 Manifesto and stripped of all cinematic artifice.

2016/2017 Season:

Edward II
by Paul Budra
Directed by Guest Artist Mary Vingoe
September 30 - October 15, 2016
Preview: September 29
Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Newly crowned, drunk on power and blind to consequences, King Edward II recalls his lover Gaveston from exile and showers him with kingly favours, alienating both queen and court. One of the earliest Elizabethan history plays, Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II, tells a story of politics, passion, and murder that leads to a fractured England and a monarchy in violent disarray.

Beckett 16
by Samuel Beckett
Directed by MFA Alumnus Gerald Vanderwoude
November 3 - 5, 2016
Frederic Wood Theatre

Don't miss this once-a-year opportunity to get your Beckett on, partake in a post-show cake & champers party every night, and donate to a very worthy cause. Legendary professor emeritus Norman Young returns to the stage with theatre alumni Beverly Bardal, Cam Cronin, Deb Pickman, Joe Procyk, Tom Scholte, and students from the UBC Theatre Program in these limited-run fundraising performances benefiting The Peter Loeffler Student Prize.

Love and Information
by Caryl Churchill
Directed by MFA Candidate Lauren Taylor
January 19 - February 4, 2017
Frederic Wood Theatre

A scientist dissects a brain. Someone tells the police. Another puts an elephant on the stairs. Over 100 vibrant characters in a series of vignettes search for meaning in their lives. Through sex, death, feeling, thinking, taxidermy and karaoke, they discover each other.

Naked Cinema III: Shortfalls
Directed by Professor Tom Scholte
January 30 - 31, 2017
Frederic Wood Theatre

Each year, students from the Department of Theatre and Film, spearheaded by  award-winning Professor Tom Scholte, come together to create something especially audacious: a new feature film inspired by Lars von Trier's Dogme 95 Manifesto and stripped of all cinematic artifice.

Les Belles-Soeurs
by Michel Tremblay
Translated by John Van Burek & Bill Glassco
Directed by MFA Candidate Diane Brown
March 16 - April 1, 2017
Frederic Wood Theatre

Germaine is the lucky winner of one million green stamps.  When fourteen of her friends, neighbours, and family members join her in working-class Montreal to celebrate, her windfall ends up igniting lurking resentments. Michel Tremblay’s two-act play, first produced in 1968, against the backdrop of Quebec's quiet revolution, changed Quebec theatre, with its kitchen-sink representation of ordinary women speaking in their own dialect.

2015/2016 Season:

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Based on the novel by Anne Brontë
Adapted by Professor Jacqueline Firkins
Directed by Alumna Sarah Rodgers
October 1 - 17, 2015
Frederic Wood Theatre

Eurydice
Based on the novel by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Keltie Forsyth
January 21 - February 6, 2016
Frederic Wood Theatre

Naked Cinema II: Love, Approximately
Directed by Tom Scholte
February 1 - 2, 2016
Norm Theatre, Old Student Union Building

Each year, students from the Department of Theatre and Film come together to create something especially audacious: a new feature film stripped of all cinematic artifice. Inspired by Lars von Trier’s Dogme 95 Manifesto, the Naked Cinemaseries puts story and character front and centre. Narrative is organically shaped based on actor-generated characters and post-production maintains the film’s natural state. Spearheaded by the award-winning Professor Tom Scholte, Naked Cinema II gives both its creators and audiences the chance to experience a raw filmmaking method.

The Arabian Nights
by Mary Zimmerman
Adapted from THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT
Directed by Evan Frayne
March 17 - April 2, 2016
Frederic Wood Theatre

2014/2015 Season:

Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Stephen Heatley
September 25 - October 11, 2014
Frederic Wood Theatre

This romantic comedy of epic proportions is often referred to as Shakespeare’s very finest comedy. Orsino loves Olivia. Olivia doesn’t love him. She loves Cesario who’s actually Viola in disguise. And then there’s Malvolia… where will her giddy infatuation lead her?

Outrageous high-jinx ensue as pangs of unrequited love afflict these unforgettable characters. The hilarity of the play’s gender bending and sexual confusions is heightened by setting it in modern day New Orleans during Mardi-Gras.

The Bartered Bride
by Bedrich Smetana
to a libretto by Karel Sabina
Directed by Nancy Hermiston
November 13 - 16, 2014
Chan Shun Concert Hall

It is spring in a Bohemian village and holiday time. The villagers gather to celebrate the festive occasion. It is against this background that the story of love, arranged and unarranged, is played with a great deal of bargaining on all sides. Relationships and assignations are put to the test against the carnival atmosphere in the village with the inevitable happy ending, although not quite as expected.

Naked Cinema
Directed by Bruce Sweeney and Tom Scholte
January 26 - 27, 2015
Norm Theatre, Old Student Union Building

Alumni and award-winning filmmaking collaborators Bruce Sweeney and Tom Scholte rock our season program with a full frontal cinematic offering. The duo's work is described by critics as "raw, naked, and uncompromising." Under their stewardship, expect nothing less from the UBC Theatre and Film students, who create an original feature-length film from start to finish. The work is inspired by Lars von Trier's DOGMA 95 Manifesto, which seeks to strip all manner of artifice from the filmmaking process and free artists on both sides of the camera.

The 520 Studio Shows
Directed by Evan Frayne and Keltie Brown
November 27 - 29, 2014
Dorothy Somerset Studio

First-year MFA Directing students Evan Frayne and Keltie Brown test their mettle in these evenings of two engaging one-act plays. The focus is squarely between director and actor in Program A, while Program B brings in design students and a more adventurous theatricality.

The Bacchae 2.1
by Euripides
Adapted by Charles Mee
Directed by Dennis Gupa
January 22 - February 7, 2015
Frederic Wood Theatre

Expect the unexpected from Charles Mee's richly poetic creation, The Bacchae 2.1. In addition to Euripides' classic Greek tragedy, the script draws from German literary theorist Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies, Valerie Solanas' The S.C.U.M. Manifesto, and Joan Nestle's Lesbian Herstory Archives. All find their place in Euripides' theatrical celebration of the god Dionysus, set in a world both ancient and modern.

The Marriage of Figaro
to a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Conducted by Neil Varon
Directed by Nancy Hermiston
February 5 - 7, 2015
Chan Shun Concert Hall

Servants Figaro and Suzanna find themselves in a tangled web before their wedding day. Count Almaviva, bored of his wife the Countess, has romantic intentions with Suzanna. To save both marriages, everyone becomes involved in elaborate schemes, which include an amorous teeanger, an old maid, a drunken gardener, and a silly young girl. Much happens on a single crazy day.

The Triumph of Love
based on the play by Marivaux
Book: James Magruder. Music: Jeffrey Stock. Lyrics: Susan Birkenhead
Directed by Barbara Tomasic
March 19 - April 4, 2015
Frederic Wood Theatre

Love can make a woman do strange things. When the brilliant princess Leonide becomes smitten with Agis, the rightful heir to the kingdom that was usurped by Leonide's family, the girl must bend her gender and rescue her man from his stuffed-shirt uncle and sour-puss aunt. Such is the state of things in Magruder, Stock and Birkenhead's hilarious, tongue-in-cheek, modern musical adaptation of the classic 18th-century romantic comedy by Pierre Maivaux.

2013/2014 Season:

The Caucasian Chalk Circle
by Bertolt Brecht
Translated by James and Tania Stern with W. H. Auden
Directed by Stephen Heatley
September 18 - October 5, 2013
Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

“Terrible is the temptation to do good!” warns Bertolt Brecht’s amiable narrator. In the heat of civil war, a servant girl sacrifices everything to protect an abandoned child. Their subsequent misadventures across her war-torn country become the heart of Brecht’s playful parable, which calls into question our basic assumptions of right in a world that has gone wrong.

Pride and Prejudice
by Jon Jory
Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen
Directed by Lois Anderson
November 14 - 30, 2013
Frederic Wood Theatre

Seeds
by Annabel Soutar
Directed by Chris Abraham
Starring Theatre at UBC Alumnus Eric Peterson
January 22 - 26, 2014
Frederic Wood Theatre

The Seagull
by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Peter Gill
Directed by Charles Siegel
January 23 - February 8, 2014
Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Ubu Roi
by Alfred Jarry
Translated by Barbara Wright
Directed by Ryan Gladstone
March 20 - April 5, 2014
Frederic Wood Theatre

Ubu Roi, Alfred Jarry’s 1896 avant-garde satire about greed and the abuse of power, was outlawed for its scandalous language, violence, and disrespect for authority.

UBC Opera: The Tales of Hoffman
by Jacques Offenbach Sung in French with English Surtitles
Conductor Leslie Dala
Directed by Nancy Hermiston
November 7 - 10, 2013
Old Auditorium

The opera, set in the 1800s, follows Hoffmann's experiences with three women: Olympia, Giulietta, and Antonia, each representing a different facet of his love and imagination.

UBC Opera: Il Capello di paglia di Firenze
by Nino Rota | Sung in Italian with English Surtitles
Conductor David Agler
Directed by Nancy Hermiston
February 6 - 9, 2014
Chan Shun Concert Hall

The Florentine Straw Hat is an exhilarating comedy based on the famous nineteenth century French farce which inspired René Clair’s classic silent film An Italian Straw Hat. Nino Rota – who was also a celebrated composer of film music, including The Godfather and many films directed by Fellini – co-wrote the libretto for Il Cappello di paglia di Firenze and composed the music in 1945. His witty and brilliant satire on the petty conventions of respectable society is presented in music in the tradition of Rossini, Puccini and Verdi.

The farcical story concerns a bridegroom’s quest to replace a straw hat eaten by his horse. Unfortunately, the hat belonged to a married lady who was dallying with her lover, and she fears discovery if she returns home hatless. An unpromising start to a wedding day!

UBC Opera: The Cunning Little Vixen
by Leoš Janáček Sung in Czech with English Surtitles
Conductor Norberto Baxa
Directed by Nancy Hermiston
June 16 - 29, 2014
Old Auditorium

Leoš Janáček’s bittersweet fable shows a deep understanding of the complexities of power and oppression, and the cyclical nature of life. Usually seen as a fairy tale, this comic opera offers revealing insight into nature’s struggle to survive the devastating footprint of humanity. With a colourful and majestic score influenced by Moravian folk songs, this opera is a modern classic.

2012/2013 Season:

The Duchess: a.k.a. Wallis Simpson
by Linda Griffiths
Directed by Sarah Rodgers
September 20 - October 6, 2012
Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

An extravagant and inspired epic, The Duchess takes us into a wonderland where Kings and Queens dance the Black Bottom, Faerie creatures demand blood, and Empires are given up for love.

The play tells the story of the woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated his throne, Wallis Simpson. It travels into the emotional centre of a plain, brash, sexual woman, who collapsed only when cocktails ran out – a woman destined to become the Yoko Ono of her time. Irreverent and ribald, this mostly true drama combines straightforward narrative with magic realism.

“You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance!” – Wallis Simpson.

The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Directed by Fannina Waubert de Puiseau
October 17 - 20, 2012
Frederic Wood Theatre

Adapted from Goethe's 1774 novel by Fannina Waubert de Puiseau, who also directs, and starring local luminary Ryan Beil, the work presents a fascinating collision of contemporary style and classical language that brings fresh relevance to the more than 300-year-old work.

The story follows a young man, Werther, who falls in love with the beautiful Lotte. Though she is engaged, the temperamental artist cultivates a relationship with her. When he is inevitably pushed away, Werther wallows in despair and resorts to taking his own life.

UBC Opera: Così fan tutte
by W. A. Mozart
Conductor Norberto Baxa
November 1 - 4, 2012
Old Auditorium

Mozart’s tale of love’s vices is a timeless classic beloved by audiences the world over. Ferrando and Guglielmo enter into a wager with the old cynic Alfonso to test the faithfulness of their two fiancées, Fiordiligi and Dorabella. What ensues is a series of cunning plot twists bringing into doubt everyone’s devotion to their would-be lovers.

Dancing at Lughnasa
by Brian Friel
Directed by John Cooper
November 15 - December 1, 2012
Frederic Wood Theatre

Dancing at Lughnasa is a 1990 play by dramatist Brian Friel set in Ireland’s County Donegal in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg. It is a Memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Evans, the narrator. He recounts the summer in his aunts’ cottage when he was seven years old.

Rhinoceros
by Eugene Ionesco
Directed by Chelsea Haberlin
January 23 - February 9, 2013
Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Eugene Ionesco’s iconic absurdist masterpiece follows a tragic everyman called Berenger who must navigate the confusion in his small French village as it is overrun by stampeding pachyderms. As bipeds become an ever-smaller minority, what will it take for him to stand up to the increasing menace of rhinocerisation?

UBC Opera: Dialogues des Carmélites
by Francis Poulenc
Conductor David Adler
February 7 - 10, 2013
Chan Shun Concert Hall

Presented by UBC Opera (part of the UBC School of Music)

A brilliantly moving and tragic French opera, Dialogues des Carmélites is based on historical events that took place at a monastery of Carmelite nuns during the French Revolution. Filled with lush harmonies characteristic of Poulenc’s style, the opera shows the resolute determination and emotional plight of the Carmelite nuns whose faith is put to the ultimate test.

Blood Relations
by Sharon Pollock
Directed by Jennette White
March 21 - April 6, 2013
Frederic Wood Theatre

Written in 1980, Blood Relations is Canadian playwright Sharon Pollock’s most frequently produced play and for good reason: it’s a theatrical, psychological thriller with a small ‘f’ feminist angle. Lizzie, at thirty-four, was an unemployed – and unemployable – unmarried woman living at home with her wealthy but penny-pinching father, her manipulative stepmother, and her sister Emma. She had no prospects and was adamant in her refusal to marry a man of her father’s choosing. When Andrew Borden started giving away his property to Abby and her relatives, the writing was on the wall for Lizzie and Emma: they would live out their lives on a pittance, stingily doled out by Abby after their father’s death.

UBC Opera: Carmen
by Georges Bizet
libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
June 22 - 30, 2013
Old Auditorium

2011/2012 Season:

The Trial of Judith K.
by Sally Clark
Directed by Tom Scholte
September 20 - October 8, 2011
Frederic Wood Theatre

Roughly based on Kafka's The Trial. Judith K. finds herself accused of an unknown crime. The harder she delves into the bureaucratic nightmare, the more firmly she is bound by it, and the more obscure the reasons for her conviction become.

Thunderstorm
by Cao Yu
Directed by Siyuan Liu
Staged reading of Thunderstorm, November 4 - 5, 2011
International touring exhibition October 31 - November 18, 2011
Frederic Wood Theatre

The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
Music by Robert Ward
Directed by Nancy Hermiston
November 10 - 13, 2011
Old Auditorium

The play, set in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, follows a vengeful teenager who accuses a rival of witchcraft, highlighting themes of religious extremism and social unrest. 

Two Merchants
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Dana Lori Chalmers
November 10 - 19, 2011
Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice intersects with the Arab-Israeli conflict when an unpaid debt, a daughter’s defection, and ancient antagonisms lead to a trial without mercy and the renewal of old hatreds. Amidst religious persecution and fear, two enemies engage in a life-and-death battle over an unfulfilled contract, family loyalty, and justice.

A Little Creation
by Vanessa Imeson
Directed by Patrick New
November 24 - 26, 2011
Frederic Wood Theatre

The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Adapted and directed by James Fagan Tait
Music composed and directed by Joelysa Pankanea
Neworld Theatre/Vancouver Moving Theatre (Vancouver, Canada)
Presented with Theatre at UBC
January 20 - 28, 2012
Frederic Wood Theatre

One Thousand Cranes
by Ren Hisa based on the original play by Colin Thomas
translated by Toyoshi Yoshihara
February 10 - 11, 2012
Frederic Wood Theatre

UBC Theatre alumnus Colin Thomas’ award-winning play is being presented in Toyoshi Yoshihara’s translation by Bunkaza, a Japanese theatre company with a 70-year record of excellence and a special interest in producing Canadian work. The play weaves together two stories. In the first, which is based on the true story of Sadako Sasaki, a young girl discovers that she has radiation-induced leukemia nine years after the bombing of Hiroshima. Determined to live, she folds origami cranes, which are a symbol of hope. The second story is about Buddy, a Canadian boy who is afraid of nuclear war and thinks there’s nothing he can do to stop it.

Rusalka
by Anton Dvořák, in Czech with English surtitles
Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil
Directed by Nancy Hermiston
UBC Opera Ensemble with The UBC Symphony Orchestra
February 9 - 12, 2012
Chan Shun Concert Hall

Rusalka tells the story of The Little Mermaid, who gives her voice to a wicked witch for a chance at human love with a mortal Prince. Her desperate longing to experience true love plunges her into an emotional storm. She must choose to make the ultimate sacrifice for love. Romantic, ethereal, and hauntingly sad, Dvořák’s dramatic music soars with melody, romance, and longing. Rusalka is not only Dvořák’s finest and most enduringly popular opera but also one of the most deeply moving operas of all.

Problem Child & The End Of Civilization
by George F. Walker
Directed by Chris Robson
February 9 - 18, 2012
Chan Shun Concert Hall

In these two blistering one-act plays, a single seedy motel room houses the world of one of Canada’s most accomplished playwrights, George F. Walker. Fiercely funny and equally heartbreaking, Problem Child asks the question, “How far would you go to get your baby back?” Holed up in a cheap motel, two young parents impatiently await a social worker’s verdict while fending off the antics of a drunken caretaker. The evening’s companion piece, The End of Civilization, is a gripping stage-noir thriller about an average couple who are driven to cross legal and moral boundaries to avoid financial ruin. Both of these tales from the gritty side of life are infused with dark hilarity.

Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Patrick New
Mar. 22 - 31, 2012
Frederic Wood Theatre

The Merry Widow
by Franz Lehar
in German with English Subtitles
Libretto by Viktor Léon and Leo Stein 
June 21 - 24, 2012
UBC Old Auditorium

The Merry Widow follows Hanna Glawari, a rich widow whose late husband left her a large fortune. The plot revolves around the efforts of the Pontevedrian embassy in Paris to ensure her fortune stays within their country by arranging for her to marry a Pontevedrian, rather than a Parisian. 

2010/2011 Season:

The Madwoman Of Chaillot
By Jean Giraudoux, translated by Maurice Valency
Directed by Stephen Heatley
September 30 - October. 9, 2010
Frederic Wood Theatre

Rum and Vodka
By Conor McPherson
Directed by MFA Directing Candidate Brian Cochrane
October 7 - 9, 2010
Dorothy Somerset Studio

Don Giovanni
By W.A. Mozart in Italian - English surtitles
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Directed by Nancy Hermiston
Conducted by Dwight Bennett
UBC Opera Ensemble with the UBC Symphony Orchestra
Nov. 4-7, 2010
UBC Old Auditorium

The Madonna Painter
By Michel Marc Bouchard
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Directed by Craig Holzschuh
November 11 - 20, 2010
Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

To protect his parish from the 1918 flu epidemic, a Quebec priest commissions an Italian painter to create a fresco dedicated to the Virgin Mary with consequences both comic and cataclysmic. History, symbol, and magic realism are beautifully combined in this exquisite parable from one of Canada’s finest playwrights.

Jade in the Coal
By Paul Yee
Score by Jin Zhang
Directed by Heidi Specht
Co-Produced with Pangaea Arts
November 25 - December 4, 2010
Frederic Wood Theatre

It tells the story of the early Chinese community in Cumberland, BC, and blends Cantonese opera with Western theatre. The play features a Cantonese opera ensemble and Canadian actors, with music composed by Jin Zhang.

Circa + 46 Circus Acts in 45 Minutes
Presented with PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
January 19 – 22 & 23, 2011
Frederic Wood Theatre

Dead Man’s Cell Phone
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Chris McGregor
January 20 - 29, 2011
Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. So begins this wildly imaginative new play from American playwriting sensation, Sarah Ruhl [The Clean House]. A funny, affecting and often otherworldly exploration of modern life.

Cendrillon
By Jules Massenet
In French with English subtitles
Libretto by Henri Cain
Directed by Nancy Hermiston
Conducted by Dwight Bennett
UBC Opera Ensemble with the UBC Symphony Orchestra
February 3 - 6, 2011
Chan Centre For The Performing Arts

Double Double Foil and Fumble
February 9 - 12, 2011
Dorothy Somerset Studio

Wild Honey
By Anton Chekhov
Translated & adapted by Michael Frayn
Directed by MFA Candidate Brian Cochrane
March 17 - 26, 2011
Frederic Wood Theatre

Albert Herring
By Benjamin Britten
Libretto by Eric Crozier
UBC Opera Ensemble & UBC Symphony Orchestra
Jun. 23-26, 2011
UBC Old Auditorium

The opera, set in the fictional town of Loxford, centers around Albert, a shy and naive greengrocer, who is chosen as the May King due to the lack of suitable female candidates. The villagers celebrate with a May Day festival where Albert, after drinking rum slipped into his lemonade, experiences a night of revelry and returns the next morning a changed man. 

2009/2010 Season:

Frozen  (Extra Event)
By Bryony Lavery
Directed by Renée Iaci
Produced by Shameless Hussy Productions & Theatre at UBC
September 22 - October 3, 2009
Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre

The play tells the story of a serial killer, a grieving mother, and a psychologist investigating the case, exploring themes of trauma, forgiveness, and the nature of evil. 

MK Woyzeck
Adapted from the works of Georg Büchner
Conceived and Directed by Tom Scholte
October 19 - 28, 2009
Frederic Wood Theatre

The Master Builder
By Henrik Ibsen
A new adaptation and translated by Errol Durbach
Directed by Gerald Vanderwoude
September 22 - October 3, 2009
Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

A visitor from the past re-enters the life of Halvard Solness – a young woman who returns to claim the sexual promise made to her by Solness when she was thirteen. What she finds on her return is a burned out, guilt-ridden man at the end of what he thinks is a wasted career. Can he give her what she wants? And does she give him a new life or destroy him utterly? Ibsen leaves the answers open in this powerful psychological drama.

The Laramie Project
By Moises Kaufam and Tectonic Theatre Projects
Directed by Nicola Cavendish
November 19 - 28, 2009
Frederic Wood Theatre

Romeo and Juliet
By William Shakespeare
Directed by MFA Directing Candidate Catriona Leger
January 21 - 30, 2010
Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Expect a brave and twisted approach to Shakespeare’s iconic story of lovers in a dangerous time from MFA Directing Candidate Catriona Leger. One of Shakespeare’s most famous and best-loved plays, Romeo and Juliet has set the precedent for tragic love stories since it’s first performance in 1594. Love is the overriding theme of the play, but not the dainty expression of the emotion that bad poets write about. Love in Romeo and Juliet is a brutal, powerful emotion that captures individuals and catapults them against their world, and, at times, against themselves. Drawing from the traditions of Bouffon, Clown and Cabaret, this theatre-in-the-round production will tickle, thrill and tantalize.

China (Extra Event)
By William Yang
Produced by Performing Lines from Australia
Presented with Vancouver 2010 Olympiad and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
February 2 - 6, 2010
Frederic Wood Theatre

Arms and the Man
By George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Robert Clothier
March 18 - 27, 2010
Frederic Wood Theatre

Odori ~ The World of Kabuki Dance (Extra Event)
Produced by Tomoe Arts & Theatre at UBC
April 9, 10 & 11, 2010
Frederic Wood Theatre

2008/2009 Season:

Welcome to Theatre at UBC's extraordinary 2008-09 season, celebrating 100 years of this great university and 50 years of the Department of Theatre (now the Department of Theatre and Film), founded by Professor Dorothy Somerset in 1958. And as we do every year, we’re celebrating the special alchemy of theatre in its many forms, across the ages and around the world.

We open our season with Professor Stephen Malloy directing the stage version of Mervyn Peake’s sensational Gothic fantasy novel, Gormenghast.

We’re especially excited to showcase our enormously successful alumni. John Gray and Eric Peterson wrote and originally performed the musical phenomenon Billy Bishop Goes to War, which won the Governor General’s Award for Drama, as did playwright Kevin Kerr’s Unity (1918). The plays are staged by two of the most exciting young directors in Canada, alumni Sarah Rodgers and Stephen Drover, respectively. MFA student directors Lois Anderson (an award winning actress) and Chris McGregor go international with Greek tragedy (Medea) and American/pseudo-Russian comedy (The Idiots Karamazov). A wonderful bonus is our collaboration with the PuSh Festival to present the newest work from a great Canadian innovator, Marie Brassard’s The Invisible.

Join our students, staff, faculty, alumni and professional theatre artists for a season of plays you won’t forget.

Jerry Wasserman, Head
UBC Department of Theatre and Film

Gormenghast
by Mervyn Peake
Stage Adaptation by John Constable
Directed by Stephen Malloy
September 18 - 27, 2008
Frederic Wood Theatre

Billy Bishop Goes to War
Written & Composed by John Gray
Directed by Sarah Rodgers
October 30 - November 11, 2008
Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Unity (1918)
by Kevin Kerr
Directed by Stephen Drover
November 13-22, 2008
Frederic Wood Theatre

Medea
by Euripides
Translated by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael
Directed by Lois Anderson
January 22 - 31, 2009
Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

The Invisible
Written, Directed & Performed by Marie Brassard Infrarouge
Presented with the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad
February 3 - 7, 2009
Frederic Wood Theatre

The Idiots Karamazov
by Christopher Durang and Albert Innaurato
Directed by Chris McGregor
March 19-28, 2009
Frederic Wood Theatre

Extra Event Series

Along with Theatre at UBC’s ambitious 2008/09 season, it’s a great pleasure to offer you a dazzling array of productions in our Extra Events Series:

A Servant of Two Masters
by Carlo Goldoni
Translated & Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher & Paolo Emilio Landi
Directed by Stephen Heatley
October 14 - 18, 2008
Dorothy Somerset Studio

Hänsel und Gretel
by Engelbert Humperdinck
Libretto by Adelheid Wette
Directed by Nancy Hermiston
Conductor Leslie Dala
UBC School of Music Opera Ensemble & The West Coast Symphony Orchestra
December 11 - 14, 2008
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Falstaff
by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Arrigo Boito
Directed by Nancy Hermiston
Conductor David Agler
UBC School of Music Opera Ensemble & The West Coast Symphony Orchestra
March 5 - 8, 2009
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

The Greeks
Theatre at UBC presents our 520 Directing Projects: THE GREEKS
Euripides’ THE TROJAN WOMEN directed by Catriona Leger
Sophocles’ ELECTRA directed by Mindy Parfitt
Translations Kenneth Cavendar, Adaptation John Barton
November 27 - 29, 2009
Dorothy Somerset Studio

Brave New Play Rites
April 1-  4, 2009 (various times)
A Festival of New Plays Written and Directed by students in UBC's Creative Writing and Theatre Programs. Festival of Original One-Act Plays. 23rd ANNIVERSARY.

Brave New Play Rites Website

2007/08 Season:

In 2007-2008, it is our great pleasure at Theatre at UBC to offer you a celebratory blend of the classics of world theatre liberally mixed with the leading edge of new theatre forms and practice.

As an integral part of one of the world's great research universities, we once again invite you into our working labs in the Frederic Wood Theatre, the TELUS Studio Theatre and the new Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre to bear witness to the fruits of the creative undertakings of our undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, guest artists and visiting companies.

The Theatre Program is deeply committed to the vision expressed by UBC's mission statement, TREK 2010, which encourages us to prepare our students to become exceptional global citizens. What better way to accomplish this (and invite you along) than through an interaction with great theatrical works from around the world: Canada (The Rez Sisters, Death & Taxes), Greece (Shadows of Troy), the UK (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coming Up for Air), Russia (A Dybbuk), France (The Learned Ladies, Old Goriot), the USA (Should’ve) and Italy (Hey Girl!, Futuristi).

Theatre at UBC is one of Canada's oldest professional theatre education programs. Since 1916 when Professor Frederic Wood began The Players Club, UBC has been home to renowned theatre practitioners and has produced some of Canada's most innovative artists and theatre practices. Our programs of theatre research, study and practice are unique at UBC, in that we depend on our audiences to engage with us to fulfil this legacy. You are an essential part of the alchemy that takes place in our research laboratory—the theatre—where the exchange between artists and audience members ignites our study and inspires our invention.

We're proud to be part of a tradition of outstanding artistic work at UBC and the rich diversity of benefits—social, economic, and educational — that this research and knowledge brings.

Jerry Wasserman, Acting Head
Department of Theatre and Film

A Midsummer Night's Dream
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Stephen Heatley
September 20 - 29, 2007
Frederic Wood Theatre

The Rez Sisters
By Tomson Highway
Directed by Johnna Wright
November 15-24, 2007
Frederic Wood Theatre

Honoré de Balzac’s Old Goriot
Adapted and Directed by James Fagan Tait
Music Composed and Directed by Joelysa Pankanea
Presented in association with the PuSH International Festival of the
Performing Arts Western Gold Theatre and Theatre at UBC
January 17 - 26, 2008
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

Hey Girl!
International Tour
Written and Directed by Romeo Castellucci
Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio in association with PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and Theatre at UBC
January 23-26, 2008
Frederic Wood Theatre

The Learned Ladies
By Molière, translated by Richard Wilbur
Directed by MFA Directing Candidate Patrick Gauthier
February 7-16, 2008
Frederic Wood Theatre

A Dybbuk
By S. Ansky
adapted by Tony Kushner
Based on a translation by Joachim Neugroschel
Directed by MFA Directing Candidate David Savoy
March 27 - April 5, 2008
Frederic Wood Theatre

Extra Event Series

The Extra Event Series offers subscribers the opportunity to attend productions and workshops at a reduced ticket price.

FUTURISTI: The avant garde theatre of the Italian Futurists
Theatre at UBC and Bella Luna Co-Production
Directed by Theatre at UBC Alumni Susan Bertoia and Gerald Vanderwoude.
October 11-13, 2007
Frederic Wood Theatre

Death & Taxes
Written and Directed by MFA Candidate Patrick Gauthier
October 18 - 20, 2007
Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre

Shadows of Troy
Based on three works by Euripides, Homer and Sophocles
Adapted By John Barton and Kenneth Cavendar
Directed by Tom Scholte 
October 23 - 27, 2007
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

Coming Up For Air
by George Orwell
Adapted and Directed by Leslie Mildiner
Theatre at UBC and One-O-One Productions
October 31 - November 10, 2007
Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre

Die Fledermaus
by Johann Strauss, UBC Opera Ensemble
Directed by Nancy Hermiston
West Coast Symphony 
December 13 - 16, 2007
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Should've
by Roald Hoffman
Directed by Theatre at UBC Faculty Stephen Heatley
Theatre at UBC and UBC Department of Chemistry
March 4-8, 2008
Frederic Wood Theatre

The Dream Healer
Based on the novel Pilgrim by Timothy Findley
Adaptation and Libretto by Christopher Allen
Directed by Nancy Hermiston
UBC Opera Ensemble
March 2, 4, 6 & 8, 2008
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

The 520’s: Medea Redux and Featuring Loretta
MFA candidate directors Chris McGregor and Lois Anderson prove their mettle
Two contemporary one-act plays
November 29 - December 1, 2007
Dorothy Somerset Studio

AVAILABLE LIGHT: Collective performance creations by students

TOUR DE FORCE: Solo performance pieces by students

BRAVE NEW PLAY RITES: Festival of new plays written and directed by students.

2006/07 Season:

I’m delighted to announce the Theatre at UBC Season for 2006-2007 and I invite you to join us for another year of live theatre at UBC Point Grey. This year we offer an extraordinary selection of truly international classics, established contemporary works and outstanding original Canadian theatre. These dynamic productions will feature the work of both student and professional theatre artists.

Our artistic and educational collaborations with our professional colleagues in Vancouver and beyond are expanding our horizons and enlarging our aspirations. The wonderful theatre we make at UBC Point Grey is now greatly enhanced by our Great Northern Way Campus activities. We’re becoming a development centre for the “theatre of the future,” a responsibility we approach with confidence, terrific energy, and high hopes.

We owe so much of our success over the years to the enthusiasm and support of our audiences and patrons, and extend a heartfelt “thank you” to the dedicated supporters who continue to donate to the Frederic Wood Theatre Endowment Fund and the new Dorothy Somerset Studio fund. I look forward to seeing you at the theatre: welcome, and enjoy the shows!

Robert Gardiner
Head, Department of Theatre, Film & Creative Writing

Beautiful Thing
by Jonathan Harvey
Directed by Stephen Heatley
September 20 - 30, 2006
Frederic Wood Theatre

Life After God
by Michael Lewis MacLennan adapted from the work of Douglas Coupland
Directed by Katrina Dunn, a co-production with Touchstone Theatre
November 1 - 11, 2006
TELUS Studio Theatre:
November 1-11, 2006 - all shows start at 7:30 p.m.
Vancouver East Cultural Centre:
November 15-25, 2006

Big Love
by Charles L. Mee
Directed by Joanna Garfinkel
January 24 - February 3, 2007
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

Mother Courage and Her Children
by Bertolt Brecht, translated by David Hare
Directed by Camyar Chai
March 7 - 17, 2007
Frederic Wood Theatre

Extra Event Series

The Extra Event Series offers subscribers the opportunity to attend productions and workshops at a reduced ticket price.

Beckett Cent
An Extra Event Series presentation
A celebration of Samuel Beckett
October 2 - 7, 2006
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Skin of Our Teeth
An Extra Event Series presentation by Thornton Wilder
Directed by Joanna Garfinkel
With Theatre at UBC’s Intermediate BFA Acting Class
October 17 - 21, 2006
Frederic Wood Theatre

A Report to an Academy
An Extra Event Series presentation by Franz Kafka
Translated by Ian Johnston
Performed by Matias Hacker
Directed by Jorge Hacker
November 17 - 18, 2006
Frederic Wood Theatre

The Gondoliers
An Extra Event Series presentation by Sir W. S. Gilbert & Sir Arthur Sullivan
Presented by the UBC Opera Ensemble
December 14 - 17, 2006
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

La Bohème
An Extra Event Series presentation by Giacamo Puccini
Presented by the UBC Opera Ensemble
February 8 - 11, 2007
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

Lady Aoi
An Extra Event Series presentation
The Uzawa Noh Troupe
Presented by the UBC Department of Asian Studies and Theatre at UBC
Workshop: February 16
Performance: February 17
Frederic Wood Theatre

Brave New Play Rites 2006-2007
An Extra Event Series presentation
New Short plays by UBC Creative Writing Students.
Directed by UBC Theatre Students
April 4-8, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
April 8, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. (additional Matinee)
Frederic Wood Theatre

POV Festival of UBC Student Films 2007
An Extra Event Series presentation
New short films by Students in UBC’s Film Production Program
April 27 & 28, 2007
Empire Granville 7 Cinemas
855 Granville street

2005/06 Season:

Theatre at UBC is pleased to announce our season for 2005-06 and to invite you to join us for another year of extraordinary live theatre at Point Grey. This year we offer a wonderful selection of ancient and modern classics, a world premiere produced in collaboration with some of Vancouver’s most exciting theatre artists as part of the PuSh International Performance Festival, and a host of other exciting performances. The past few years have been very exciting for Theatre at UBC. We’ve begun regular artistic and educational collaborations with our professional colleagues in Vancouver and beyond, added new play development to our teaching and production mandate, expanded our horizons to include dance and interdisciplinary performance as well as theatre and opera, and we continue to produce great theatre on the UBC Vancouver Campus. We owe much of our success over the years to the support and enthusiasm of you, our patrons. We’d particularly like to acknowlege supporters who’ve donated to the Frederic Wood Theatre Endowment Fund, which was created to help support artistic work in the Frederic Wood Theatre (If you’d like to donate to the Endowment, just write a tax-deductible amount in the box provided on the subscription form at the end of this brochure and add it to your subscription total). I look forward to seeing you at the Theatre and I hope you’ll enjoy our 2005-06 Season.

Robert Gardiner
Head, Department of Theatre, Film & Creative Writing

The House of Atreus
by Aeschylus
adapted from The Oresteia by John Lewin
September 28 - October 8, 2005
Frederic Wood Theatre

La Ronde
by Arthur Schnitzler
adapted by John Barton from a translation by Sue Davies
November 16 - 26, 2005
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

Soulless
by Aaron Bushkowsky
a special presentation with Rumble Productions
Directed by Norman Armour
November 24 - December 3, 2005
Frederic Wood Theatre

Studies in Motion: The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge
by Kevin Kerr
a co-production with the Electric Company & the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
January 17 - 29, 2006,
Frederic Wood Theatre

The Glass Menagerie
by Tennessee Williams
February 1 - 11, 2006
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

Picasso at the Lapin Agile
by Steve Martin
March 8 - 18, 2006
Frederic Wood Theatre

Le Nozze di Figaro
by Mozart
Directed by Nancy Hermiston
Conducted by Tyrone Peterson
March 2 - 5, 2006
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC
Extra Event Series

Brave New Play Rites 2005-2006
New Plays by UBC Creative Writing Students
March 29 - April 2, 2006
Frederic Wood Theatre
Extra Event Series

POV Festival of UBC Student Films 2006
Short Films by UBC Film Students
April 28 & 29, 2006
The RIDGE Theatre (3131 Arbutus Street)
Extra Event Series

2004/05 Season:

We're delighted to welcome you to the 2004-2005 Theatre at UBC. This year we've assembled a season of plays and events reflecting our commitment to theatre that entertains, provokes and enlightens.

Last year, with our very successful co-productions of The Fall and K, we began building artistic and producing relationships extending beyond the borders of the UBC main campus. We continue to enlarge our horizons this year with similar co-productions.

We're also delighted to continue our collaborations with the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts and the UBC School of Music. With these partners, as well as with the Belkin Gallery, the Department of Art History and Visual Art, and the Museum of Anthropology, we continue to expand the demanding and exciting "Arts and Culture Scene" at the UBC Point Grey campus.

We invite you to join us for what promises to be another fabulous season of theatre, opera, concerts, gallery openings, workshops, lectures, festivals and films. We look forward to seeing you at the Theatre.

Enjoy!

Robert Gardiner
Head, Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing

Under Milk Wood
by Dylan Thomas
Directed by Sarah Rodgers, Alumna
September 23 - October 2, 2004
Frederic Wood Theatre

The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
translated by Jean Claude Van Itallie
Directed by Stephen Heatley
November 4 - 13, 2004
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

Village of Idiots
By John Lazarus
Directed by MFA Candidate Aaron Caleb
January 20 - January 29, 2005
Frederic Wood Theatre

Eugene Onegin (Opera)
By P.I. Tchaikovsky
Libretto by Tchaikovsky and Silovsky, after a novel by Pushkin
Directed by: Nancy Hermiston, Head of Voice and Opera, UBC School of Music
Conducted by Norbert Baxa With the UBC Symphony Orchestra and the UBC Opera
Ensemble
March 3 - 6, 2005
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Arcadia
By Tom Stoppard
Directed by Dennis Garnhum
March 10 - 19, 2005
Frederic Wood Theatre

Transit Lounge
By Amiel Gladstone, Andreas Kahre, Conrad Alexandrowics, Kendra Fanconi, Anosh Irani, Maiko Bae Yamamoto and Rachel Ditor
Directed by Rachel Ditor
April 7 - April 16, 2005
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

Extra Event Series
New this year to Theatre at UBC, the Extra Event Series offers subscribers the opportunity to attend productions and workshops at a reduced ticket price.

Plum + Other Colours
October 21, 22, 23, 2004
Frederic Wood Theatre
Extra Event Series

The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the Axes of Evil
October 29 - October 30, 2004
Frederic Wood Theatre
Extra Event Series

John Padan and the Discovery of America by Dario Fo
November 12 and 13, 2004
Frederic Wood Theatre
Extra Event Series

Skin
February 24 and 25, 2005
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC
Extra Event Series

Brave New Play Rites 2004-2005
6 Shows Only
April 13 - 17, 2005
Extra Event Series

Persistence of Vision (POV) Film Festival
April 29th -  30th, 2005
Ridge Cinema - 3131 Arbutus Ave.
Extra Event Series

2003/04 Season:

We are delighted to invite you to the 2003-2004 Theatre at UBC Subscription Season. We've an entertaining and enlightening spectrum of shows this year: Alien Anthropologists, Classic Commedia, a Vancouver/Copenhagen Tri-Production, Mozart's most popular Opera, a full Measure of Shakespeare, Ibsen on the Inlet, and an affectionate salute to two great British Columbia Artists. Our Theatre Production Program continues to grow in innovative and exciting directions, as it has since Professor Frederic Wood started the UBC Players' Club back in 1916. At the ripe age of 87 we've not slowed down a bit - we're renewed and reborn each season by the enormous talents and fresh ideas of our students, the artistry of our faculty, staff and alumni, and by you - our marvelous audience.

Welcome to the theatrical surprises and delights of our 2003 - 2004 season.

Robert Gardiner
Head of Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing

Tales of the Lost Formicans
by Constance Congdon
Directed by Stephen Malloy
September 25 - October 4, 2003
Frederic Wood Theatre

Il Campiello
by Carlo Goldoni. English version by Susanna Graham-Jones and Bill Bryden
Directed by Stephen Heatley
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC
October 16 - 25, 2003

Measure for Measure
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Gerard MacKay
November 13 - November 22, 2003
Frederic Wood Theatre

K.
by Martin Tulinius
Directed by Martin Tulinus
An international co-production of Kaleidoskop Theatre of Copenhagen, Rumble Productions and Theatre at UBC
January 15 - 24, 2004
Frederic Wood Theatre

Song of This Place
by Joy Coghill
Directed by Robert More
February 19 - February 28, 2004
Frederic Wood Theatre

Manon
by Jules Massenet
Stage Director: Nancy Hermiston
Conducted by Norbert Baxa With the UBC Symphony Orchestra and the UBC Opera Ensemble
A co-production with the UBC School of Music
March 4 - March 7, 2004
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

The Lady from the Sea
by Henrik Ibsen
Adapted by Bryan Wade
Directed by John Cooper
March 18 - 27, 2004
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

2002/2003 Season:

A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by John Cooper
September 25 - October 5, 2002
Frederic Wood Theatre

The Secret Rapture
by David Hare
Directed by Stephen Heatley
October 16 - 26, 2002
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

The Falstaff Project
Dr. Errol Durbach's adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry plays
Directed by John Wright
November 13 - 23, 2002
Frederic Wood Theatre

Unabridged Script: Theatre at UBC wishes to thank Dr. Durbach for allowing us to make the unabridged script of The Falstaff Project available to our website visitors.

Oh, What a Lovely War
by Joan Littlewood
Directed by Sarah Rodgers
January 23 - February 1, 2003
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

The Bartered Bride
Composed by Bedrich Smetana
Libretto: Karel Sabina
Opera in Czech with English surtitles
Directed by Josef Novak
Conducted by Norbert Baxa
March 6 - 9, 2003
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

The Marriage of Figaro
by Beaumarchais
translated by David B. Edney
Directed by Marek Czuma
March 13 - 23, 2003
Frederic Wood Theatre

Dirty Hands
A Festival of the Performing Arts at UBC
March 31 - April 11, 2003
Various Campus Venues

2001-2002 Season:

The productions of Theatre at UBC are part of the Theatre Program's contribution to the exploration of ideas. That exploration of course, is the central adventure of any great university. One of the greatest advantages of operating a theatre program in the diverse environment of UBC is the possibility of interaction among students, scholars and guest artists. Because of this, our seasons reflect a range of ideas and themes that we think will be relevant, interesting and provocative as well as diverting and entertaining. The students, faculty and staff of the Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing invite you to join us for another year on campus with Theatre at UBC. We know you will enjoy yourself!

Lion In The Streets
by Judith Thompson
Directed by Kathleen Weiss
September 26 - October 6, 2001
Frederic Wood Theatre

Good  Mother
by Damien Atkins
Directed by Stephen Heatley
October 31 - November 10, 2001
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

Lysistrata
by Aristophanes,
Directed by David Bloom
November 15 - 24, 2001,
Frederic Wood Theatre

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Christopher Hampton,
Directed by Fran Gebhard
January 23 - February 2, 2002
Frederic Wood Theatre

The Creation 
by Anonymous
Edited and Adapted by Edward Kemp and Katie Mitchell
March 13 - 23, 2002,
TELUS Studio Theatre, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC

Dido and Aeneas
by Henry Purcell
Directed by Nancy Hermiston
Conducted by Jesse Read
March 7 - 9, 2002
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Gianni Schicci
by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Giovacchino Forzano
English Translation by Anne and Herbert Grossman
Co-production with the UBC School of Music
March 9 - 10, 2002
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

2000 - 2001

The Three Sisters
September 28 - October 7, 2000

Bonjour la Bonjour
November 2 - 11, 2000

Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Directed by Stephen Malloy
November 16 - 25, 2000
Frederic Wood Theatre

As You Like It
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Stephen Heatley
January 18 - 27, 2001
Telus Studio Theatre

The Crucible
March 1 - 4, 2001

Greek
By Steven Berkoff
Directed by Zaib Shaikh
March 8 - 17, 2001
Telus Studio Theatre

The Beggar's Opera
By J. Gay
directed by John Wright
March 22 - 31, 2001
Frederic Wood Theatre