Performance

Busy little bees, it is time to return to the HIVE: Twelve adventurous theatre companies deliver twelve distinct performances in continuous rotation.

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Flutter from one site-specific show to the next, with DJs, dancing and more theatrical social networking.

Pi’s piece, House/Home, will be directed by Artistic Director Richard Wolfe. For House/Home each audience member is given a key to 577½ Great Northern Way and is invited to drop by for a visit. Using music, burlesque, poetry and movement, Pi explores the surreal matrix of our most private spaces.

Starring Todd Thomson and Sasa...

On a summer night of stifling and charged heat, five occupants of two adjacent condo towers find their dreams, both romantic and erotic, combining to become tinged with the panic of nightmares.  In a twist on the Arabian Tales, a Sleeping Beauty lies on the 7th floor, entrapping tenants in an unwilling carpet ride manufactured from the fabric of her cursed dreams.  Eros and Death become sensually entwined in a manner that is hypnotic in its power and exhilarating in its terror.   

Arabian Night was written by Roland Schimmelpfennig and translated by David Tushingham. 

This production was co-produced...

The coldest night of the year. An empty café. The only things that pour more freely than the wine are blood and comedy. Canadian playwright George Hunka fuses elements of absurdity, grotesquery, and farce into a crazy-quilt parallel universe in which nothing is quite what it seems.

Director: Del Surjik

Starring: Sarah Deakins, David Marr and James O'Shea
Set Designer: David Roberts
Lighting Designer: John Webber
Sound Designer: Patrick Pennefather
Projection Designer: Tim Matheson
Costume Designer: Sheila White
Stage Manager: Peter Jotkus
Production Manager: Jayson McLean
Photographer: Tim...

Helen's Necklace takes place in an unnamed city in the hot Middle East, scarred by recent wars. Helen is in town for a conference, but impulsively extends her visit to find her lost necklace.

This production of Carole Frécehtte's Helen's Necklace was a presentation by the Cultch.

Director: Del Surjik

Starring: Elizabeth McLaughlin and Sanjay Talwar

Live music by Boris Sichon

Set Designer: David Roberts
Lighting Designer: Del Surjik
Assistant Lighting Designer: Kitty Hoffman
Costume Designer: Barbara Clayden
Stage Manager: David Kerr
Assistant Stage Manager: Xanthe Faulkner
Production Manager...

Jose Rivera's Cloud Tectonics is an enchanting and haunting love story, a magic realist tale of boy meets girl, in which the ordinary is transformed into the miraculous.  Meet Celestina del Sol, a rare and heavenly creature; a mystic wanderer with no sense of time and an infinite capacity to love.  

Cloud Tectonics was produced in association with the Vancouver Playhouse.

Director: Bill Dow

Featuring: Michael Scholar Jr., Carmen Aguirre and Alexander Ferguson

Co-Set Designers: Bryan Pollock and Del Surjik
Lighting Designer: Del Surjik
Sound Designer: Amos Hertzman
Costume Designer: Barbara...