Theatre at UBC

Season 2009–2010

Welcome to Theat re a t UBC ’s exc i t i ng 2009 -10 season. There ’s a t remendous cu l t u ra l buzz in t he a i r w i t h t he imminence of t he 2010 O lymp ic and Para l ymp ic W in ter Games and the Cu l t u ra l O l ymp iad. We’re buzz ing here too, w i t h great t heat re and opera for ever y tas te: t he c lass ic, t he adven turous, and the new. And we’re de l igh ted to show of f t he spectacu la r renovat ions to t wo of UBC ’s h is tor ic bu i ld ings: t he O ld Aud i tor ium and the Freder ic Wood Theat re.

Ours is a season of c lass ics o ld and new: Romeo and Ju l ie t and Arms and the Man, d i rec ted by MFA s tuden ts Cat r iona Leger and M indy Par f i t t ; I bsen ’s Master Bu i lder i n a new adapta t ion by Emer i t us Theat re Professor and wor ld - renowned Ibsen scho lar Er ro l Durbach; a nove l re - imagin ing of Büchner ’s Woyzeck by cur ren t Ass is tan t Professor o f Theat re Tom Scho l te; and the con temporar y Amer ican c lass ic The Laramie Pro ject, d i rec ted by UBC Theat re a lumna and Canad ian theat r ica l i con N ico la Cavend ish.

Added even ts inc lude the Engl ish p lay Frozen, p roduced by Vancouver ’s shameless hussy product ions; Odori, Kabuk i dance theat re f rom Tomoe A r ts; and our co - product ion w i t h Vancouver ’s PuSh In terna t iona l Per forming A r ts Fes t i va l , W i l l iam Yang ’s Ch ina . Co inc iden ta l l y, t he Depar tment o f Theat re and F i lm we lcomes As ian Theat re specia l is t Ass is tan t Professor S i yuan L iu to our facu l t y.

F ina l l y, we are proud to be associa ted w i t h t he UBC Opera Ensemble and d i rec tor Nancy Hermis ton who br ings us Puccin i ’s Suor Ange l ica and Giann i Sch icch i, Har r y Somers ’ Lou is R ie l, and Mozar t ’s Die Zauber f lö te, t he premiere product ion in t he br i l l i an t new O ld Aud.

I t ’s a go ld meda l season. Don ’ t m iss i t .

Jer r y Wasserman Head, Depar tment o f Theat re and F i lm

Message from Jerry Wasserman

October 1 to 10, 2009 – 7:30 pm *World Premiere Frederic Wood Theatre

Madness, crime, exploitation. The haunting themes of Georg Büchner's ground-breaking 19th century drama WOYZECK are re-examined through a contemporary lens in this original, multi-media, devised performance. This moving work, adapted from one of the great classics of German literature, is the tale of a simple soldier, poor, puzzled, and haunted by voices and apparitions.

“Every man is an abyss, and you get dizzy looking into it.” – Woyzeck

The MasTer Builder

by Henrik Ibsen

A New Adaptation by Errol Durbach

Direc ted by Gerald Vanderwoude

October 29 to November 7, 2009 – 7:30 pm TELUS Studio Theatre

In Ibsen’s The Master Builder 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.

“Castles in the air — they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too. ” – Ibsen

t h e l a r a m i e p r o j e c t

by moisés Kaufman and the members of

tectonic theatre project

Directed by Nicola cavendish

photo: © leland rucker 2009

November 19 to 28, 2009 – 7:30 pm Frederic Wood Theatre

In October 1998 Mathew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beaten and left to die, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Five weeks later, members of New York City's Tectonic Theatre Project went to Laramie and during the next year conducted over 200 interviews with its inhabitants. The resulting play chronicles the life of the town in the year after the murder. It has become a rallying cry for gay rights and hate-crime laws.

“Nothing short of stunning… not to be missed.” – New York Magazine

rOMEO

JULiET

by William Shakespeare

Directed by Catriona Leger

January 21 to 30, 2010 – 7:30 pm TELUS Studio Theatre

This tragic tale of star-crossed lovers, feuding families and timeless passion contains some of Shakespeare's most beautiful and lyrical love poetry. Among his earliest and most produced works, Romeo and Juliet has become one the most beloved plays of all time, from the Elizabethan Age to the present. Join us for one of literature's most sublime paeans to young love.

“For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

– Act V, scene iii

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Directed

by Mindy Parfitt

March 18 to 27, 2010 – 7:30 pm Frederic Wood Theatre

Romantic misconceptions of love and warfare are brilliantly and hilariously deflated in this high comedy, revealing Shaw at his best as an acute social observer and a witty provocateur. Optimistic, farcical, absurd, and teeming with sexual energy, Arms and the Man has Shaw inverting the devices of melodrama to glorious effect.

“My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I’m a free citizen.” – Arms and the Man

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EXTrA EVENT: September 22 to October 3, 2009 – 7:30 pm Dorothy Somerset Studio Theatre

One sunny evening, 10-year-old Rhona goes missing. Her mother, Nancy, retreats into a state of frozen hope. This award-winning new drama is a big, brave, compassionate play about grief, revenge, forgive-ness and bearing the unbearable. A professional production presented in partnership with one of Canada’s most provocative touring theatre com-panies, shameless hussy productions.

Tickets: $25 / $20 / $15 Subscribers: $20 / $15 / $10

“[a] fine play…so concentrated and unflinching that at times it takes your breath away.”

– Observer

William Yang’s

Photo: Heidrun Löhr

EXTrA EVENT: February 2 to 6, 2010 – 7:30 pm Frederic Wood Theatre

Presented with the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Produced by Performing Lines (Australia).

Photographer-storyteller William Yang returns to a motherland he never knew, a stranger in his homeland. Yang's arresting images and wryly humorous reflections about the meaning of culture and belonging come together with Nicholas Ng's haunting live score for the erhu (Chinese violin) and pipa (Chinese lute), for an unforgettable theatrical experience. pushfestival.ca

Tickets: $30 / $24 / $24 Subscribers: $25 / $20 / $20

Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi By Giacomo Puccini, Libretto by Giovacchino ForzanoNovember 5, 6, 7, – 8:00 pm

Matinée November 8 – 2:00pmChan Centre for the Performing Arts

With the West Coast Symphony Orchestra

An operatic double bill: Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi take you from a heart-wrenching tale of piety, passion, and penance to a satirical farce and one of the

funniest operas you'll ever experience, highlighted by

one of opera’s most beloved arias, “O mio babbino caro.” Together, these two operas will delight and entertain

audiences of all ages.

Tickets: $27 / $20 / $15 Subscribers: $25 / $18 / $13A

UBC Opera Ensemble

EXTrA EVENTS:

UBC OPErA ENSEMBLE and

UBC SCHOOL OF MUSiC PrESENT

With Director Nancy Hermiston & Conductor Dwight Bennett

Photo: The Dream Healer, 2008. John Avey as Carl Jung, Roelof Oostwoud as Pilgrim, and Judith Forst as Lady Sybil with members of the UBC Opera Ensemble. Photo by Tim Matheson.

Louis Riel By Harry Somers, Libretto by Mavor Moore & Jacques Languirand February 4, 5, 6 – 7:30pm (Please Note New Start Time!)

Matinée February 7 – 2:00pmChan Centre for the Performing Arts

With the UBC Symphony Orchestra A Co-presentation with Theatre at UBC

Louis Riel—who was he? “The idealist driven mad by

continued betrayal by ruthless realists…the thinker

paralyzed by his thinking…the schizophrenic outsider who

belongs to no people, the leader of a small nation standing

in the way of ‘progress’…hero or fool?…a martyr-saint…a

devil…a patriot…a traitor…a political genius…a certifiable

megalomaniac? The argument still lives…his legend grows.”

– Mavor Moore. Written for Canada's Centennial, Louis Riel is arguably this country’s most famous opera and “one of

the most imaginative and powerful scores to have been

written in this century”

– W. Margrave, Washington Star

Tickets: $27 / $20 / $15 Subscribers: $25 / $18 / $13

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 Creative Writing and Theatre students.

Persistence of Vision: Festival of short films written, produced and directed by students in UBC's Film Production Program.

Locations & Showtimes (unless otherwise indicated)

All Theatre at UBC showtimes: 7:30 pm

Frederic Wood Theatre 6354 Crescent Road

TELUS 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.

EXTrA EVENT: Performance: April 10 & 11, 2010 – 7:30pmFrEE Lecture & Demo: April 9, 2010 – 7:30pmFrederic Wood Theatre

Elegant courtesans, powerful samurai, vengeful spirits – these are but a few of the characters dancer-actors can embody in the art of odori, the style of dance found in Japanese kabuki theatre. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to enjoy Vancouver artists with invited dancers from Japan. This professional production is presented in partnership with TomoeArts. www.tomoearts.org

Tickets: $25 / $20 / $15 Subscribers: $20 / $15 / $10

“Vancouver’s new TomoeArts uses a whirling mix of Japanese dance, music, and projected visuals to conjure the otherworldly.” – The Georgia Straight

OdOr iThe World of Kabuki Dance

Photo: Fujima Shôgô (as Hakuryô) in Matsuno Hagoromo

Ticket Prices (unless otherwise indicated)

regular: $20 Seniors: $14 Students: $14

Discounts: Theatre at UBC offers discounts of $2 per regular

priced ticket for groups of 10 or more. Discounted prices are

also available to UBC Alumni, Faculty, Staff and members of the

University Neighbourhoods Association. Call the Box Office at

604.822.2678 for more information.

How to Use the Order Form

1. regular Subscriptions Select the seating location and evening you would like to attend. Choose the type (Regular, Senior, or Student), quantity, price, and calculate the cost. Each subscription includes one ticket to the following five shows: MK-Woyzeck, The Master Builder, The Laramie Project, Romeo & Juliet, and Arms and the Man.

2. VersaPass Select the number, type (Regular, Senior, or Student), and price of VersaPasses and calculate the cost. Each VersaPass consists of five vouchers, each redeemable for one ticket to any Theatre at UBC 2009-10 Season Production (MK-Woyzeck, The Master Builder, The Laramie Project, Romeo & Juliet, and Arms and the Man). Your VersaPass vouchers will be mailed to you. When you decide which show(s) you would like to attend, call the Theatre at UBC Box Office to reserve your seats. Please note that VersaPass vouchers are not eligible for the Extra Event Series.

3. Extra Events If you would like to add tickets to any of the extra events at special Theatre at UBC Subscriber rates, please write the performance date and number of tickets of each type in the boxes provided and calc ulate the amount.

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Preferred Seating Location (Frederic Wood & Chan Centre Only)

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(Rows A-D)

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Frozen

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Suor Angelica

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China

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The Frederic Wood Theatre

The TELUS Studio Theatre and the Dorothy Somerset

Studio Theatre are General Seating.

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Mk-WOYzECkAdapted from the works of Georg BüchnerConceived and Directed by Tom Scholte October 1 to 10, 2009

THE MASTEr BUiLDErBy Henrik IbsenA New Adaptation by Errol DurbachDirected by Gerald VanderwoudeOct. 29 to Nov. 8, 2009

THE LArAMiE PrOJECTBy Moisés Kaufman and the members of Tectonic Theater ProjectDirected by Nicola CavendishNovember 19 to 28, 2009

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rOMEO and JULiETBy William ShakespeareDirected by Catriona LegerJanuary 21 to 30, 2010

ArMS and the MANBy George Bernard ShawDirected by Mindy ParfittMarch 18 to 27, 2010

Season 2009–2010