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
| More info at www.ubcplayersclub.com