Soul Maker
Waterfront Theatre
Unable to accept her brother’s impending death, Florentine, or “TingTing,” tries to sew a doll that can serve as a vessel for his soul. Framed through the folklore of Singapore and Malaysia, the one-act play explores grief, love and spirituality with surreal humour and tender supernatural mischief.
Behind The Wall:
A Thriller Musical
Waterfront Theatre
In this new thriller musical by Vancouver writers Kay Snell and Landon Dueck, a journalist spends a week investigating Oracle Homes, a housing development that claims it can predict its owner’s needs. Four original songs drive a fast-paced mystery about surveillance, technology and empathy as the smart home fails and something more troubling appears to be hidden behind closed doors.
Snatched
Ron Basford Park (Amphitheatre)
In Edinburgh in 1829, Agnes Gillies turns to grave robbing when an anatomical school needs fresh cadavers. At 32, with no husband or prospects, she finds an unexpected confidant in a gentlemanly corpse. He may be the perfect companion for a woman society ignores, but death has already complicated the relationship.
One Man Home Alone
Little Mountain Gallery (Salazar Stage)
Duran Cruickshank returns after a sold-out debut to perform his take on the Christmas classic Home Alone. Alone onstage for 35 minutes, he tears through 33 characters, 29 scenes, 11 pizzas, 10 booby traps and two burglars in a physical-comedy adaptation inspired by a couple’s Christmas tradition.
Doctor Faustus
Picnic Pavilion
Christopher Marlowe’s tragedy follows brilliant scholar John Faustus, who finds all human knowledge meaningless and bargains away his soul for 24 years of magic and power. Rough Magic Theatre stages the rarely performed classic as a darkly funny, modern morality fable about a man who gains an extraordinary opportunity but lacks the imagination to use it well.
