Festival Dionysia

January 28, 2013 – 9:52 pm

This year the UBC Players Club brings you 6 unique plays, featuring new writers, student directors and actors in the Dionysia Theatre Festival.

Don’t miss the show that will mesh genres, talents and incredible plays.

February 27th to March 2nd at 7pm!
March 3rd 12noon matinee!

Featuring,

“Porcelain and Pink”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Directed by Elisabeth Astwood

A comic one act play adapted from a short story in the collection ‘Tales of the Jazz Age’. Featuring a young woman in a bathtub and a case of mistaken identity, it’s sure to be entertaining.

“Fistfight with God”
Kevin Chong
Directed by Paul Weston

A dark comedy where a young couple meets, fall in love, get married, question their sexuality, and deal with infidelity! But that’s not all! It happens all in a 10 minute airplane ride.

“The Dead of Night”
Paula Zelaya Cervantes
Directed by Jayda Novak

This piece follows Felix, the fifth and favourite grandchild of an ex-senator, as he stumbles into a candlelit room
in a panic. In his hand he holds knowledge he would rather ignore, at his feet there is a Gun. And the saints are watching.

“Troubadour”
Carolyn Nakagawa
Directed by John Dickinson

Young people get lost and try to find each other in an entangled labyrinth of love. Need we say more?

“The Day I Died”
Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Scott Zechner and Javier Ricardo Sotres Porres

The monologue of a recently deceased man from beyond the grave, this piece is a recollection of the day he died and how facets of his life tied together with the
events of that one day.

The Pesky Interview by Benjamin Buckingham
Directed by Jessica VanElk

Anne is going in for her first job interview. She has everything planned out and her mother waiting in the car. Her primary obstacle is her interviewer Michael who is unimpressed with her exuberance. When he challenges her belief in pescetarianism, all rules are off.

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2012 Fall Show: Our Country’s Good

September 25, 2012 – 7:48 pm

In a penal colony in 1789, a young lieutenant attempts to put on a Restoration comedy–with a cast of convicts. This play is a modern classic which by turns dark, comic and profound reveals the redemptive power of theatre.

Where: The Dorothy Somerset Studios

Performance Dates:

October 31st

November 1st

November 2nd

November 3rd

November 4th

Book tickets by emailing: tickets@ubcplayersclub.com

We’re currently looking for backstage helpers for this show. If you’re interested in getting involved, please send an email to: ourcountrysgood@ubcplayersclub.com.

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2012-2013 Play Reading Season

September 25, 2012 – 7:34 pm

This year we’re hosting play readings. Come read a play, talk about the play, and enjoy some snacks.

Where: Room 157 of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.

When: 3pm

Schedule:

Sept 16th – Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov

Sept 30th – Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer

Oct 12th – Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Oct 26th – The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Nov 9th – Not About Nightingales by Tennessee Williams

Nov 23rd – Awakening of Spring by Frank Wedekind

Jan 12th – Scenes from Shakespear in William Shakespeare

Jan 26th – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Feb 9th – How to Disappear Completely by Doug Richmond

Feb 23rd – The Visit by Fredrich Durrenmatt

Mar 9th – TBA

Mar 16th – TBA

 

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February 8, 2012 – 3:37 pm

The Drawer Boy 12pm performance on Sunday February 12th has been BOUGHT OUT! However if you haven’t had a chance to see this wonderful work, you can still catch performances, tonight and Saturday night at 8pm at the DSS.

Reserve tickets at thedrawerboy@ubcplayersclub.com or call 778-870-0200!

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The UBC Player’s Club presents a play readin of The Madness of George III!

January 30, 2012 – 4:08 pm
When: Friday Feruary 3rd 2012
Where: UBC Buchanan D 205
Come out and join us as we go through The Madness of George III! We’ll be meeting on Friday February 3rd at 3PM. Come, pick a character or two and have fun reading their lines! Snacks will be provided, and it’s a good chance to get to know some of your fellow members as well as flex those voice acting muscles. You can bring your friends too – entrance will be by donation and feel free to bring some snacks to share!

check out our FB event and invite your friends!

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January 14, 2012 – 6:34 pm

Where: DSS

Dorothy Somerset Studio

6361 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC

When: February 8th-11th 8pm

The Drawer Boy

A play by Michael Healey

This spring the UBC Players Club presents the Vancouver premier amateur production of The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey! Already a modern Canadian classic, The Drawer Boy is a trembling, emotion-packed piece of love that will resonate within you even after the fall of the curtain. The play is based on the true story of Miles Potter, a Toronto theatre actor who voyaged into the rural farm land of Ontario to device a collective creation piece called “The Farm Show”. The Drawer Boy was the most produced play in 2000 in the United States. Mike Mackenzie, a recent graduate of George Brown Theatre School in Toronto, now directs the Vancouver amateur premiere of this play that embodies and captures a monumental period in Canadian Theatre History.

The routine of Angus and Morgan, farmers, lifelong friends and war veterans is disturbed by the arrival of Miles, an ambitious young actor from Toronto. This uplifting play about the power of storytelling shows us that no matter how desolate, desperate or doomed a situation, there will always be a bastion of hope for us to cling.  Featuring the talents of Vancouver-based actors Robert Sidley as Angus, Laurence Hollands as Morgan and Riley McIlveen as Miles. The production team includes Nassreen Noorizadeh-Koullou (Set design), Emly Hartig (Lighting Design), Christopher Rhys Pugh (Sound Design), and Jenna Newton (Assistant Director).

Dorothy Somerset Studio | 6361 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC | Feb 8-11 at 8pm| Feb 12 at 12noon| Tickets: club members $5/Non-members $10|Please reserve tickets at thedrawerboy@ubcplayersclub.com or call 778-870-0200

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UBC Player’s Club presents a play reading of Peter Pan

January 14, 2012 – 6:28 pm

When: January 20th, 2012

3-6pm

Where: Buchanan D205

Come out and join us as we go through Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie! We’ll be meeting on Friday January 20th at 3PM. Come, pick a character or two and have fun reading their lines! Snacks will be provided, and it’s a good chance to get to know some of your fellow members as well as flex those voice acting muscles. You can bring your friends too – the reading is free for members, but just $3 for non-members.

Check our our event on facebook and invite your friends: http://www.facebook.com/events/228931080519549/

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It’s coming up quickly! The Impromptu Playwriting Contest

January 1, 2012 – 11:53 pm

The UBC Players’ Club and the Playwright-in-Residence presents:

Impromptu Playwriting Contest

When? Monday January 16th  1-2pm

Where: UBC SUB mainconcourse

The UBC Players’ Club will be holding their first Impromptu Playwriting Contest in January 2012. The contest is simple: you come in, sit down, we give you an envelope with a list of things you must include in your play and you write! Participants will have 60 minutes to write their masterpiece and then hand it in to the Players’ Club where it potentially can be awarded with a variety of prizes! You can even show up the day of and jump right into it—no experience necessary! The only catch is that you will be in the middle of the SUB where UBC students will get to observe the playwriting process. Bring your will and wits maybe you’ll discover you were destined to be a playwright…

Rules
Participants will have 60 minutes to write a play.

You will be given a pen, pad of paper and concealed lists of ideas that must be included in the play in some capacity (either mentioned in the dialogue or somehow play a role in the story).

There will be no laptops, phones or electronic devices permitted: only your wits and the page are allowed.

Once the 60 minutes is up, you will hand in your pieces to be looked at by a panel of judges. The judges will decide the winners and runners up and announce the winners at an award ceremony.

You can write a one-character play, a 15 character play, an epic in iambic pentameter or anything that’s in English and could be performed on stage.

Members: Free! Non-Members: JUST $2

Register by emailing your information to info@ubcplayersclub.com Hurry up! Spots are filling up fast!

Check our our facebook group for more details!

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UBC Players Club presents a play reading of The Cherry Orchard

January 1, 2012 – 11:51 pm
Come out and join us as we go through The Cherry Orchard, Russian playwright Anton Chekhov’s last play! We’ll be meeting on Friday January 13th at 4PM in IBLC room 260, UBC. Snacks will be provided, and it’s a good chance to get to know some of your fellow members as well as flex those acting muscles. You can bring your friends too – the reading is free for members, but just $3 for non-members.
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December 10, 2011 – 11:41 pm
The UBC Players’ Club and the Playwright-in-Residence presents:

Player’s Club Improv Playwrighting Contest
IMPROMPVISED, INVENTIVE PLAYWRITING TO THE EXTREME

The UBC Players’ Club will be holding their first Impromptu Playwriting Contest in January 2011. The contest is simple: you come in, sit down, we give you an envelope with a list of things you must include in your play and you write! Participants will have 60 minutes to write their masterpiece and then hand it in to the Players’ Club where it potentially can be awarded with a variety of prizes! You can even show up the day of and jump right into it—no experience necessary! The only catch is that you will be inthe middle of the SUB where UBC students will get to observe the playwriting process. Bring your will and wits maybe you’ll discover you were destined to be a playwright…

Rules
Participants will have 60 minutes to write a play. They will be given a pen, pad of paper and concealed lists of ideas that must be included in the play in some capacity (either mentioned in the dialogue or somehow play a role in the story). There will be no laptops, phones or electronic devices permitted, only their wits and the page. Once the 60 minutes is up, the writers will (anonymously) hand their pieces, complete or not, to be looked at by a panel of judges. The judges will decide the winners and runners up and announce the winners at an award ceremony.

Members: Free! Non-Members: JUST $2
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