Presented by Touchstone Theatre In Association with Ruby Slippers Theatre and Diwali in BC, Touchstone’s fall production, is Happy Place by Pamela Mala Sinha. Touchstone’s Artistic Director Roy Surette makes his Directorial return for the company, supported by a top notch team of designers: Pam Johnson on Set, Christine Reimer on Costumes, Adrian Muir on Lights, with Original Music and Sound Design by Dorothy Dittrich.
The show features a cast of amazing Vancouver actresses with over 50 Jessie nominations and awards between them: Diane Brown (The Duchess a.k.a. Wallis Simpson, A Beautiful View), Nicola Cavendish (4000 Miles, Bakersfield Mist), Sereana Malani (Pericles, Valley Song), Adele Noronha (Brothel #9, Walt Whitman's Secret), Laara Sadiq (Brothel #9, The Penelopiad), Colleen Wheeler (Elizabeth Rex, Peter and the Starcatcher), Donna Yamamoto (5 @ 50, Salmon Row).
Happy Place takes us into the experiences of seven women in an in-patient care facility, living together in the most extraordinary circumstances. Though each woman must navigate her own survival in a world that challenges that possibility, they are also the ones who teach one another how to live in a way no therapist ever could. Happy Place is a glimpse into lives filled with courage, compassion, humour and startling surprise; lives which, in many ways, are not so different from our own. Happy Place premiered in September 2015 at Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre.
October 20 – 29, 2017
Preview October 19 @ 8pm (only $17)
Opening October 20 @ 8pm
Tues at 7pm | Wed to Sat at 8pm | Saturdays & Sundays 3pm matinees
Wed October 25 at 1pm (Pay What You Can Matinee)
Tuesday, October 24 at 7pm
Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova St.)
Tickets: tickets.firehallartscentre.ca | 604-689-0926
Adults: $30/33 | Students/Seniors: $25/28 | Under 30: $20 | Preview: $17
About Touchstone Theatre: Touchstone has been a mainstay of theatrical innovation and excellence on the West Coast for over 40 years. The company’s all-Canadian mandate has helped to launch and develop some of the country’s most important theatre artists, and its substantial body of work has garnered over 70 local and national awards
About Ruby Slippers Theatre: Multi-award winning Ruby Slippers Theatre produces provocative text-based theatre from the vanguard of the English and French Canadian canon. They are the only company in Vancouver mandated to producing the contemporary Quebecois canon in English, and have been doing so since 1990.
About Diwali in BC: Diwali in BC is a new initiative founded and produced by Rohit Chokhani. After producing and curating numerous Diwali celebrations over metro Vancouver for the last four years, culminating in a Jessie Richardson theatre award, Rohit is embarking on this new, bold and ambitious initiative to make the Diwali Celebrations province-wide over the next five years. The first ever Diwali in BC celebrations will take place over 5 weeks from Oct-Nov, 2017.
Photo by Riun Garner
