Spark
SPARK FESTIVAL 2010
March 8 – 21
Join us for this exciting festival of new plays and new ideas. Over two weeks you can see plays for free, plays that are in the process on being created and plays that have garnered accolades around the country. Give yourself over for a night, a week or a fortnight – you’ll be amazed.
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Monday, March 8 at 7 pm / Free
Created by Camyar Chai, Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef / Director Guillermo Verdecchia / Featuring Camyar Chai and Marcus Youssef
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March 9 – 13
by David Ferguson
"Everything is so dangerous that nothing is really frightening" Gertrude Stein
Starring Treena Stubel, Ingrid Hansen & Lynda Raino / Director David Ferguson / Designer Miles Lowry / Dramaturg Jennifer Wise / Suddenly Dance Theatre, Victoria
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March 10 – 14
by Camille Gingras
"Clarke is exceptional…her performance is so underplayed it’s bewitching" Vancouver Courier
Starring Cherise Clarke / Director James Fagan Tait / Choreographer Dana Gingras / Set Designer David Roberts / Video Designer Candelario Andrade / Lighting Designer John Webber / Sound Designer Mike Bernard / Rough House, Vancouver
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March 11 – 14 / Free
Written and created by Brad L’Écuyer with Clayton Baraniuk and Sarah Carlé / Featuring Clayton Baraniuk, Sarah Carlé and Brad L’Écuyer / Gotta Getta Gimmick
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March 11 – 14 / Free
Created and performed by Rob Hunter / Full Circle: First Nations Performance
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March 11 – 14 / Free
Created by Allison Bottomley and Erin Macklem / Theatre SKAM
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Friday, March 12 / 1 – 5 pm
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March 12 – 25 / Free
Collective Works Gallery, 1311 Gladstone Avenue
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Saturday, March 13 at 9:30 pm / Free
Featuring Cranaoke and Atomic Vaudeville
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Sunday, March 14
Created and performed by students in the Belfry 101 Programme
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Monday, March 15 at 7 pm / Free
By Michele Riml and Deb Williams / Director Andrew McIlroy / Featuring Deb Williams
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March 16 – 21
by Hannah Moscovitch
"It’s that rarest of all theatrical experiments: a clever satire with a beating heart." Globe and Mail
Starring Colombe Demers, Conor Green, Scott Stephenson, & Tessa Cameron / Director, Lighting and Sound Designer Christian Barry / Stage Manager Louisa Adamson / 2b theatre company, Halifax
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March 17 – 21
by Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson, Daniela Vlaskalic
"Theatre at its mesmerizing best…so engrossing, exciting and entertaining, you don’t want it to end" Calgary Sun
Starring Daniela Vlaskalic, Natascha Girgis & Beth Graham / Director Charlie Tomlinson / Costume and Set Designer Bretta Gerecke / Lighting Designer Narda McCarroll / Sound Design and Composer Peter Moller / Stage Manager Cheryl Millikin / Producing Mentor Eva Cairns / Bent Out Of Shape Productions, Edmonton
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March 18 – 21 / Free
Sound Installation created by Brian Linds
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March 18 – 21 / Free
Created and performed by Kim Denness-Thomas, Alex MacCuaig, Barbara Poggemiller, and students from the Mosaic Learning Centre
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March 18 – 21 / Free
Created and performed by David Radford & Christina Patterson / Launch Pad Productions
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Friday, March 19 / 1 – 5 pm
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Saturday & Sunday, March 20 & 21 / 10 am – 2 pm
