the invisible - Theatre at UBC

This Neck of the Woods
extra event
September 10 to 14
Dorothy Somerset Studio
Gormenghast
September 18 to 27
Frederic Wood Theatre
A Servant of Two Masters
extra event
October 14 to 18
Dorothy Somerset Studio
Billy Bishop Goes to War
October 30 to November 11
T E L U S Studio Theatre
Unity (1918)
November 13 to 22
Frederic Wood Theatre
Hänsel und Gretel
extra event
(UBC Opera Ensemble)
December 11 to 14
Chan Centre for the
Performing Arts
Medea
January 22 to 31
T E L U S Studio Theatre
The Invisible
(with the PuSh International
Performing Arts Festival)
February 3 to 7
Frederic Wood Theatre
F a l s t a ff
extra event
(UBC Opera Ensemble)
March 5 to 8
Chan Centre for the
Performing Arts
The Idiots Karamazov
March 19 to 28
Frederic Wood Theatre
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 with a special event, This Neck of the Woods,
new work created by Theatre professors Tom Scholte of
UBC Vancouver and Neil Cadger of UBC Okanagan,
performed by students of both campuses. Then
Professor Stephen Malloy opens the season proper
with 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 awardwinning
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

September 18 to 27, 2008
Frederic Wood Theatre
by Mervyn Peake
Stage Adaptation by
John Constable
Directed by
Stephen Malloy
Featuring:
UBC's Graduating
BFA Acting Class
This magical show exploits one of English Literature’s
undisputed fantasy classics, Mervyn Peake’s great
Gormenghast, recipient of the Heinemann Prize for
Literature. A macabre tale of a dysfunctional family
incarcerated in a fantastical bygone age, Gormenghast
presents a heart-rending drama set in the shadowy
labyrinths of a huge gothic castle. Dare to step
inside and enter a world of grotesque characters and
mysterious ritual. In this vast crumbling kingdom of
corridors and shadows you will encounter a strangely
compelling and lurid tale of greed, honour, madness
and love.
“Astonishing. Magnificent to watch. A rich
reflection of the book” – The Independent

October 30 to November 11, 2008
T E LUS Studio Theatre
billy bishop
goes to war
One of the most famous and widely-produced
plays in Canadian theatre, Billy Bishop Goes to
War dramatizes the life of Canadian World War
I fighter pilot Billy Bishop. It earned Theatre
at UBC alumnus John Gray the Governor
General's Award, the Chalmers Award and
the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award. Billy
Bishop is the funny and often very sad story of
a Canadian WWI flying ace, his feats of daring
and his tribulations. The myth of the man is
revealed as he tells of crossing swords with
commanders, the Germans, the British and
those who saw war as a good time. Currently
celebrating its 30th anniversary, this Canadian
classic will receive a second production by First
Impressions Theatre, from November 5 to 22.
www.firstimpressionstheatre.com
Written & Composed
by John Gray
with Eric Peterson
Directed by
Sarah Rodgers
Starring
Ryan Beil
Zachary Gray
“A high-flying ace of a show capturing the
humor, the hellfire, and the derring-do of an
extraordinary career!” – The New York Times

November 13 to 22, 2008
Frederic Wood Theatre
Unity
(1918)
by Kevin Kerr
Directed by
Stephen Drover
In 1918, a world ravaged by war was suddenly
hit by a mysterious and deadly plague—the
“Spanish Flu.” The illness struck and advanced
rapidly, regardless of age, bringing the terror
of the Great War home with the returning
soldiers—in fact more people died in this
epidemic than had been killed in battle.
Theatre at UBC alumnus Kerr offers us an epic
chronicle of a forgotten chapter of Canadian
history and a chilling preview of the beginnings
of our own new century.
A gothic romance filled with dark comedy,
Unity (1918) earned the Governor General’s
Literary Award for Drama as well as the
Sydney Risk Award for Outstanding Original
Script and the Jessie Richardson Award for
Outstanding Original Script.
“…a work of powerful and moving
familiarity that celebrates love, sex, death,
and the sorrowful mysteries of war and
plague. It's also painfully funny.”
– The Globe and Mail

January 22 to 31, 2009
T E LUS Studio Theatre
Medea
by Euripides
Translated by
Kenneth McLeish
and Frederic Raphael
Directed by
Lois Anderson
Image: Bernard Safran, Medea, 1964, 36" × 41", oil on masonite, reproduced with permission from the Estate of Bernard Safran.
Greek tragedy's most spectacularly vengeful woman
has rematerialized in a pithy, witty and elegant
90-minute translation. Medea is the notorious mother
who, in a fury of sexual jealousy, murders her children
as revenge for her husband's infidelity. In this savage
tragedy about love, entitlement, lust and retribution,
Euripides gives us a nearer view of passionate emotion,
both in its purest forms and in the wildest aberrations
by which men are controlled, or troubled, or destroyed.
“We read about domestic tragedy every day. But
nothing tops a play nearly 2500 years old which
summarises all our fears and sorrow.” – Daily Mail

February 3 to 7, 2009
Frederic Wood Theatre
the invisible
Written, Directed
& Performed by
Marie Brassard
Infrarouge
Presented with the
PuSh International
Performing Arts Festival
Photo: Eugène Thibault, Henri Robin et le spectre, 1863, coll. Gérard Lévy, Paris.
“Sorceress. Wizard. Trickster. Montreal's Marie
Brassard is all of these.”
– Jo Ledingham, Vancouver Courier
Marie Brassard returns to Vancouver with a theatrical
exploration of appearance and disappearance, of the
double and of otherness.
The city of Berlin, ectoplasms (vaporous emanations
of the body supposedly visible to mediums) and the
literary hoax involving JT LeR oy, a writer dreamed up
by a woman looking to get published, provide Brassard
with material to reflect on art and creation, on the
porous boundary between the creator and the resultant
creature.
In collaboration with Finnish artist Mikko Hynninen
and composer and sound designer Alexander
MacSween, the singular and yet very plural Marie
Brassard incarnates minds and the bodies that
live therein, making their ghostly voices resonate,
rendering the invisible visible.
The Invisible is the latest work from the creator of
Jimmy, créature de rêve (2002), La Noirceur (2003)
and Peepshow (2006).
Please note that all seating
for The Invisible is General
Admission.
This production is not eligible
for VersaPass vouchers

March 19 to 28, 2009
Frederic Wood Theatre
the idiots karamazov
by Christopher Durang
and Albert Innaurato
Directed by
Chris McGregor
Created by two of theatre's most original writers, this
antic, sometimes outrageous and wildly comic “sendup”
of Dostoyevsky's classic novel was first presented
by the Yale Repertory Theatre. The play follows
Constance Garnett, a feeble-minded literary translator.
As the play opens, she has difficulty translating the
Russian classic The Brothers Karamazov. Also onstage
are characters who perform the story as she translates
it. As Garnett's translations of the text begin to falter,
the characters acting out the contents of the novel
are forced to follow her woeful misinterpretation—as
a result they purée the whole Western
canon before our very eyes.
“…a wild, freeassociative
ride.”
– The New York Times

extra event series
September 10 to 14, 2008 7:30 pm
plus: 2:00 pm matinées
September 13 & 14
Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre
Devised & Directed by
Neil Cadger & Tom Scholte
Subscriber Tickets: $10/$7/$5
Avant-garde theatre creation practice meets
leading edge multimedia design technology
in This Neck of the Woods, a performance piece
co-created by theatre students from UBC
Okanagan and UBC Point Grey. This ‘theatrical
exchange trip’ is led by artists on faculty Neil
Cadger & Tom Scholte in celebration of UBC’s
100th Anniversary. Expect a provocative palette
of exciting live-art ingredients.

Extra Event series (cont'd):
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, 12, and 13 at 8:00 pm December 14 at 3:00 pm
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Subscriber Tickets: $22/$15/$12
Once upon a time there was a dark forest, two exuberant
children, a gingerbread house to die for, and
one wicked old witch… but anyone familiar with the
writings of Carl Jung or Bruno Bettelheim knows that
fairytales aren’t just for children. This enchanting lyric
adaptation of the Grimm Brothers fairytale is a joyous
celebration of music for all ages.
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, 6, and 7 at 8:00 pm March 8 at 3:00 pm
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Subscriber Tickets: $22/$15/$12
Falstaff is an operatic commedia lirica in three acts
adapted from Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of
Windsor and scenes from Henry IV. An effervescent
masterpiece, this work has long been a critical favorite
for its refinement and melodic invention, its wit, its fun
and of course for its title character, that rascal… that
rogue… John Falstaff!
other events to watch for!
Available Light: New work devised by students in
UBC's Theatre Program.
the 520s: Short plays directed by first-year MFA
Directing students.
Tour de Force: Solo works written and performed by
students in UBC's BFA Acting Program.
Brave New Play Rites: Annual festival of short plays
written and directed by UBC students.
Persistence of Vision: Festival of short films written,
produced and directed by students in UBC's Film
Production Program.
Theatre Locations & Showtimes
All Theatre at UBC showtimes: 7:30 pm
Frederic Wood Theatre
6354 Crescent Road
T E L U S Studio Theatre
in the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
6265 Crescent Road
Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre
6361 University Boulevard
For more detailed directions to the UBC campus and
each venue, please see the map provided on the back
cover of this brochure, visit www.maps.ubc.ca, or call
the Theatre at UBC Box Office at 604.822.2678.

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Gormenghast
September 18 to 27
Frederic Wood Theatre
Medea
January 22 to 31
T E L U S Studio Theatre
Billy Bishop Goes to War
October 30 to November 11
T E L U S Studio Theatre
Unity (1918)
November 13 to 22
Frederic Wood Theatre
The Invisible
(with the PuSh International
Performing Arts Festival)
February 3 to 7
Frederic Wood Theatre
The Idiots Karamazov
March 19 to 28
Frederic Wood Theatre
Theatre at UBC
UBC department of theatre & film
6354 Crescent Road
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 canada
Box Office: 604.822.2678
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