Performance

Co-produced with Axis Theatre

Disposing of the Dead is Katherine Schlemmer's modern horror based on the true story of the 1924 murder of Janet Smith, a young Scottish nanny employed by the wealthy Baker family. Initially thought to be a suicide, the woman’s death at Baker’s Shaughnessy home was later discovered to be a gruesome murder that shocked citizens of Vancouver.

Director: Sandhano Schultze and Wayne Specht
Cast: Marya Delver, Kathleen Duborg, David L Gordon, John James Hong, Haig Sutherland, and David Rimmer
Assistant Director: Shauna Janssen
Dramaturge: John Lazarus
Compose/Sound...

Author: Edgar Allen Poe
Adapated for the Stage by: Steven Berkoff

Director: Sandhano Schultze

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Awards:

1993 Sam Payne Award:
Most Promising Newcomer - Kirsten Robek

Jessie Richardson Awards:
Outstanding Lighting Design - Del Surjik
Outstanding Sound Design - David Rimmer

Jessie Award Nominations:
Outstanding Performance (lead) - Kirsten Robek
Outstanding Costume Design - Nicole Dextras
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a review from our archives...
SCRIPT TO BLAME FOR FALL OF THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
BARBARA CROOK, Sun Theatre Critic

The Fall of the House of Usher really deserves two reviews:  applause for the...

Playwright: Jeanne-Mance DeLisle
Translated by: Yves Saint-Pierre

Director: Sandhano Schultze

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Awards

Jessie Richardson Award:
Outstanding Body of Work (Design) - Robert Gardiner
for A Live Bird In Its Jaws (set, lighting) & Lilies (set)

Jessie Richardson award nomination:
Outstanding Lighting Design - Del Surjik
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a review from our archives...
WHEN IT CLICKS, THIS BIRD SOARS

BY BRIAN PETERSON

With their new production of Jeanne-Mance Delisle’s Governor-General’s Award-winning script, Pink Ink promises to deliver a blend of raw emotional styles, subtlety, and heightened language...

Created by: Robert LePage and Marie Brassard

Co-produced with Theatre la Seizieme

Directors: Sandhano Schultze and Roger Gaudet

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an article from our archives...

Lepage’s Polygraph Plays with Our Notions of Truth and Theatre

BY COLIN THOMAS

Sandhano Schultze, artistic director of Pink Ink Theatre, and Roger Gaudet, artistic director of Théâtre la Seizième, must be feeling like God’s chosen messengers these days.  After all, Robert Lepage (The Dragon’s Trilogy, Vinci, Tectonic Plates) has assumed godlike status both in his native Quebec and in the international theatre community; and Schultze...

Playwright: Ludmila Razumovskaya
Translated by: Cathy Porter

Director: Sandhano Schultze

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Awards:

Jessie Richardson award nomination:
Outstanding Body of Work (set) - Del Surjik
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a review from our archives...

TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES IN THE USSR

Dear Elena
By Ludmila Razumovskaya.  Translated by Cathy Porter.
Directed by Sandhano Schultze.  A Pink Ink Theatre production.
At the Vancouver Little Theatre until February 23

BY COLIN THOMAS

Dear Elena, a recent Soviet play, is what 1950s North American dramatic movies would have felt like if North Americans had had well articulated philosophical...