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MULGRAVE’S LINDA HAMER THEATRE 2330 Cypress Bowl Lane, West Vancouver.
CHURCH 3201 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver. 604-9872114 lynnvalleychurch.com Friday Night Live: A weekly series with improv actors AddLibretto playing hosts to musical guests Fridays at 7:30 p.m. Schedule: April 18, Colin Eason of The Stranger Project and April 25, Bollywood. Admission by suggested donation of $10.
PRESENTATION HOUSE THEATRE 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. 604-9903474 phtheatre.org Festival of Plays: The Theatre BC North Shore Zone Festival of Plays will begin May 5 and run to May 10 with a different play each evening at 8 p.m.Tickets: $108 for a weekly pass or $20/$18 nightly.There will be an Ice Breaker Party Sunday, May 4 at 3 p.m. and presentation of awards and closing night party May 10.
SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Gina Williams, pianist, composer and vocalist will perform a selection of classical, soul and pop songs Thursday, April 24 at 10:30 a.m.Tickets: $15/$12. ST. STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH 885 22nd St., West Vancouver. 604-926-4381 JazzVespers: The Henry Young Quartet will perform rhythm and blues, rock and roll, big band and jazz music Sunday, April 27 at 4 p.m. Admission by a suggested donation of $10 at the door will be appreciated.
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ANNE MACDONALD STUDIO 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. Grand Theft Impro: An improv sketch show that uses audiences suggestions to
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with no spoken lines about a woman remembering events that led her to flee her homeland Friday, April 18 at 1 p.m.Tickets: $10.
CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com I on the Sky: A play
DEEP COVE SHAW THEATRE 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 604-929-3200 deepcovestage.com EatYour Heart Out: A
comedy where a waiter gets involved in the lives of his customers will run until April 19 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $18/$16. KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Fawlty Towers: Three epsisodes of this television comedy series will be brought
to stage May 2 (preview), 3, 7-10, 14-17 at 8 p.m. with matinees May 10 and 17 at 2 p.m.Tickets: $22/$20/$15. On a First Name Basis: A love story, a social commentary and a mystery performed by Norm Foster May 5 at 2 p.m. (preview) and May 6-9 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $50/$42/$25/$15.
THEATRE AT HENDRY HALL 815 East 11th St., North Vancouver. 604-983-2633 northvanplayers.ca God of Carnage: A contemporary comedy will run until April 19 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $18/$16.
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CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com Carmina Burana: Ballet Victoria will perform Friday, May 2 at 7:30 p.m.Tickets: $40/$25/$20/$15. KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com See more page 32
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manager and co-artistic director at Itsazoo (and also a former North Vancouver resident),
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explains that site-specific theatre is Itsazoo’s specialty. The company has previously staged shows in movie theatres, museums, public parks and even in the water below a bridge. Killer Joe is the second production in Itsazoo’s premiere series, which presents site-specific versions of debut works by renowned playwrights. Originally written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts in 1991, the American gothic crime thriller was first produced as a play in 1993. Letts later adapted a screenplay for the 2011 film of the same name starring Matthew McConaughey. Killer Joe tells the sordid story of the Smiths, a dysfunctional Texas family who contract a killer in
a scheme to collect life insurance. “It’s a really great script. The characters are incredibly intriguing and it’s a real page-turner.You always wonder what’s going to happen next,” Haberlin says. In this production, the titular killer is played by Colby Wilson, a co-artistic director at Itsazoo who also hails from North Vancouver. “We went to rival high schools,” Haberlin laughs. With violence, nudity, coarse language, smoke and simulated sex, Killer Joe is more likely to appeal to HBO fans than families. It’s billed as “trailer trash noir” and a “pitch-black” comedy — but a comedy nonetheless. “The dialogue is so
witty and so honest, so the characters themselves, the things they say, are quite humorous,” Haberlin says. The situations the characters get themselves into are so terrible it’s funny, she adds. “You think, ‘Oh no, it couldn’t get any worse,’ and then it does and then you have to laugh because there’s no other way through it.” With an audience capacity of just 37 people, ticket-holders will be treated to a “fly-on-thewall” theatre experience. “They’re within inches of the action the whole time,” Haberlin says. And before and after the performance, audience members are invited to grab a cup of moonshine at the Southern-inspired
concession stand and explore the replica trailer park. “They can arrive a half-an-hour before the show and get a hot dog and get a cocktail or a beer and wander around and just experience the environment,” says Haberlin, adding that, yes, people are allowed to drink in their seats. “I hope that they have a lot of fun, primarily, because it is so engaging, because it is so funny,” she says. “In my ideal world, whenever someone sees one of Itsazoo’s plays, if they leave saying, ‘I didn’t know theatre could be that,’ it would be awesome for me. We try to create theatre that isn’t just plays, but theatre that creates a full event for people.”