Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot
Presented by PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and Theatre at UBC
January 19 – 29, 2012
Adapted & Directed by James Fagan Tait
Original Music by Joelysa Pankanea
In a world obsessed with money, power, and sexual conquest, is a sanatorium the only place for a saint?
The award-winning team that brought you Crime and Punishment in 2005 returns with the world-premiere of a new adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s comic social critique, The Idiot.
Neworld Theatre (Peter Panties, PodPlays, Ali & Ali) teams up with Vancouver Moving Theatre to bring Dostoyevsky’s feverish comedy to the stage, in a musical adaptation that is both whimsical and haunting — a moral parable that questions the principles of the powerful. Read more about the production.
Location
Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC
Dates
Preview: January 19 @ 7:30
January 20 to 28 @ 7:30 pm
January 21, 22, 28, 29 @ 2:00 pm
No performance Monday, January 23
Tickets
advance tickets $34 | $30 | $28
at-door tickets $36 | $32 | $30
2-for-1 Preview January 19 @ 7:30pm
2-for-1 Matinees January 21 & 22
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604-822-2678
The Storyweaving Project
Vancouver Moving Theatre (VMT) and the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival are excited to announce the Storyweaving Project (working title), produced in partnership with the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Association.
Between November 2011 and early May 2012 VMT and our partners will undertake a series of community building and mentor workshops which will culminate in a full production/event early May 2012 at the Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre.
The Storyweaving Project is a community-event for here and now to help make sense of urban Aboriginal experience. Storyweaving is about understanding how the past informs our present, and about learning from the past and the present to move into the future with hope. This interdisciplinary theatrical presentation combines Aboriginal traditional symbolism of the medicine wheel woven with poems, dances, stories, song, testimonies, personal memories, and selections from the Downtown Eastside Community Play (2003).
