Performance

A woman sits in a Brussels café, telling delicate tales of love. She insists on the minute and most intimate details: the beating heart, the sweaty palms, the skin that shivers to the touch. Little by little, through her portraits, she reveals what it is that drives her to tell stories and lets us in on the strange secret, shared with her one day by a young man in a coffee shop.

Carole Fréchette's Elisa's Skin was performed in Vancouver and taken on tour including at the National Arts Centre as part of The Magnetic North Theatre Festival in 2005.

Starring: Marie Stillin
With (at different...

Playwright Enda Walsh's high energy joy-ride Disco Pigs was originally staged in Cork, Ireland by Corcadorca Theatre. Two Irish kids, Pig and Runt are born at almost the same time in the same Dublin hospital - spiritual twins of different mothers - and grow up next door to each other. Insulated by their devotion to each other, the pair forge an almost telepathic bond while their intense relationship is expressed in a language that becomes aggressive, angular and deformed.

Director: Del Surjik.

Featuring: Kevin MacDonald and Jennifer Mawhinney

Set and Lighting Designer: Owen Schellenberger...

Co-produced with Rumble Productions

Playwright: Jason Sherman
Director: Norman Armour

Cast: David King, Andrew Johnson and Alex Fergerson

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Awards

Jessie Richardson Award:
Outstanding Lighting Design, Del Surjik

Jessie Award Nominations:
Outstanding Set Design, Andreas Kahre
Outstanding Direction, Norman Armour
Outstanding Production, Pi Theatre and Rumble Productions

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a review from our archives...

CHILLING SPY TALE WRAPPED IN LAYERS OF DECEIT
Three in the Back, Two in the Head
At the Roundhouse Community Centre until Nov. 18
Reviewed by Jo Ledingham

PI (PINK INK) THEATRE AND RUMBLE...

Playwright: Larry Tremblay
Translated by: Sheila Fischman

Director: Del Surjik
Cast: Lee Van Passen as “Martha”

Lighting Designer: Del Surjik
Projection Designer and Photographer: Tim Matheson
Sound Designer: Andreas Kahre
Costumes Designer: Ellen Salmland
Stage Manager: Rebecca Eamon
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Awards

Jessie Richardson Award:
Outstanding Body of Work, Tim Matheson, Slide Projection

Jessie Richardson Award Nomination:
Outstanding Lighting Design, Del Surjik
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a review from our archives...

AN UNFORGETTABLE LESSON

PETER BIRNIE, VANCOUVER SUN

ANATOMY LESSON
At Studio 16, 1545 West 7th Ave., to Oct...

Playwright: Michel Garneau
Translated by: Linda Gaboriau

Director: Del Surjik
Photographer: Tim Matheson
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Awards

Jessie Richardson Award Nominations:
Outstanding Production, Pink Ink
Outstanding Set Design, Andreas Kahre
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a review from our archives...

PINK INK'S SURJIK LIGHTS UP KITSILANO THEATRE SCENE
By Jennifer Van Evra

Sometimes the ad business can seem like a war zone.  The competition is fierce, the stakes are high and the blood pressure levels stratospheric.  Those in the industry with a mind for business invariably clash with the creative types they rely upon, while those same...