Live Theatre Lives On (w/ Max Reimer, Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company)
Live theatre is an emotive experience; it has the power to lift you up and pull you down. Done well, it draws you in and engulfs you. There is a relationship between you as a member of the audience and the cast – a relationship that is built immediately. Sometimes it is electrifying and at others it is cold. Either way, it is palpable.
Because the audience is always changing, the dynamics in the theatre change each and every night. Each audience ensures each night will produce a different performance. Live theatre coaxes you; sometimes it demands that those in attendance rise above the mundane and enter an experience that hopefully becomes something new for the audience and the cast.
Canadian theatre companies are producing exceptional new works by Canadian writers. They continue to innovate; they’re opening theatres in the far North staging Inuit productions; rural theatres staging summer productions that reflect the places they call home; technology is enhancing and expanding the stage. In Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and especially Winnipeg, big bold productions are opening to eager audiences.
We invited Max Reimer, the past artist and managing director of the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company, to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the experience of live theatre and why it will never die – why it must never die.
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Red - Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company
Stu McNish of Oh Boy Productions interviews Artistic Managing Director Max Reimer about the Tony-award winning Red at the Vancouver Playhouse January 14 - February 4, 2012.
Red
By John Logan
Directed by Kim Collier
A co-production with Canadian Stage and The Citadel Theatre
Vancouver Playhouse
Jan. 14 -- Feb. 4, 2012
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Aldo Steccanella interviewed at Vancouver Playhouse festival, Vancouver BC, Canada
Aldo Steccanella export manager of Tenuta SantAntonio, interviewed by Tony Gismondy, Food and Wine gury and host of Radio 650 Am, Canada nationakl radio station, March 11 Vancouver BC
The Exquisite Hour Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company
Stu McNish of Oh Boy Productions interviews Artistic Managing Director Max Reimer about The Exquisite Hour by Stewart Lemoine. Relephant Theatre's Vancouver Fringe Festival hit will be at the Vancouver Playhouse Recital Hall April 23 - May 5, 2012.
The Exquisite Hour
By Stewart Lemoine
A Relephant Theatre Production
Directed by Julie McIsaac
Vancouver Playhouse Recital Hall
Apr. 23 -- May 5, 2012
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Catalyst Theatre's Hunchback - Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company
Stu McNish of Oh Boy Productions interviews Max Reimer about Catalyst Theatre's Hunchback at the Vancouver Playhouse February 18 - March 10, 2012.
Catalyst Theatre's Hunchback
Conceived by Jonathan Christenson and Bretta Gerecke
Adapted from Victor Hugo's novel
Originally commissioned by the Citadel Theatre (Edmonton)
A co-presentation of Catalyst Theatre with The Cultch
Vancouver Playhouse
Feb. 18 -- Mar. 10, 2012
Box Office 604 873 3311
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Where tech meets the stage: live with the company of The Full Light of Day
We are LIVE at the Vancouver Playhouse with the company of the Electric Company Theatre production of The Full Light of Day.
Along with a sneak peek at this world premiere, we chat with playwright Daniel Brooks.
Utilizing fourteen live-streaming cameras, projections, and film, The Full Light of Day is a modern allegory set in Canada’s urban financial centres, in which a mother must contend with her husband’s corrupt legacy before she dies.
The Full Light of Day continues through January 12 at the Vancouver Playhouse. Visit for tickets and information.
Tosca Cafe - Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company
Stu McNish of Oh Boy Productions interviews Artistic Managing Director Max Reimer about Tosca Cafe.
Tosca Cafe
Created and staged by Carey Perloff and Val Caniparoli
An American Conservatory Theater (San Francisco) production
A co-production with Theatre Calgary
Vancouver Playhouse
Oct. 8 -- 29, 2011
Box Office 604 873 3311
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Gunmetal Blues - Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company
Stu McNish of Oh Boy Productions interviews Max Reimer about Gunmetal Blues at the Vancouver Playhouse Recital Hall January 23 - February 4, 2012.
Gunmetal Blues
Book by Scott Wentworth
Music & Lyrics by Craig Bohmler and Marion Adler
Directed by Max Reimer
Vancouver Playhouse Recital Hall
Jan.23 -- Feb.4, 2012
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La Cage Aux Folles Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company
Stu McNish of Oh Boy Productions interviews Artistic Managing Director Max Reimer about La Cage aux Folles at the Vancouver Playhouse November 26 - December 24, 2011.
La Cage aux Folles
Music & Lyrics by Jerry Herman
Book by Harvey Fierstein
Based on the play La Cage aux Folles by Jean Poiret
Directed & Choreographed by Max Reimer
Assistant Direction by Cameron Mackenzie
Vancouver Playhouse
Nov. 26 -- Dec. 24, 2011
Box Office 604 873 3311
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Vancouver Playhouse's Max Reimer
Vancouver Playhouse artistic managing director Max Reimer speaks at an announcement on March 9, 2012, about the decision to shut down the theatre company's operations.
Vancouver's Edgiest Theatre: The Cultch's 18/19 Season
Introducing The Cultch's Spectacular 18/19 Season! Highlights Include:
Kamloopa | Western Canada Theatre (Kamloops)
Testosterone | Rhum and Clay (UK)
A Vancouver Guldasta | SACHA (Vancouver)
A Brief History of Human Extinction | Upintheair Theatre (Vancouver)
The Ones We Leave Behind | Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (Vancouver)
Backbone | Gravity & Other Myths (Australia)
The Believers Are But Brothers | Bush Theatre (UK)
SmallWaR | SKaGeN (Belgium and Theatre Royal Plymouth (UK)
Three Winters | Written and Directed by Amiel Gladstone
East Van Panto: Wizard of Oz | Theatre Replacement (Vancouver )
This Duet That We’ve Already Done (so many times) | Frédérick Gravel (Montreal)
Little Dickens | Ronnie Burkett (Toronto)
Mrs. Krishnan's Party | Indian Ink Theatre Company (New Zealand)
This is the Point |Co-Produced by Ahuri Theatre & The Theatre Centre (Toronto)
Dakh Daughters | Ukraine
Power Ballad | Julia Croft (New Zealand)
Much Ado About Nothing | Classic Chic Productions (Vancouver)
Children of God | Urban Ink (Vancouver)
Hot Brown Honey | Briefs Factory (Australia)
Multiple Organism | Mind of a Snail (Vancouver)
The New Cackle Sisters | L'orchestre d'hommes-orchestres (Montreal)
Act of Faith | Realwheels Theatre (Vancouver)
Nassim | A Bush Theatre and Nassim Soleimanpour production
Subscribe to The Cultch's 2018/19 season with our Choose 5 subscription package and get 5 shows for the price of 4 or see 8 shows and save even more!
This coming season is full of explosively entertaining theatre, music, and dance! Visit thecultch.com for more info.
Anywhere But Here Live Described Performance Feb 8 2020 2pm at the Vancouver Playhouse.
Anywhere But Here Live Described Performance - February 8, 2020 - 2pm Show, 1pm Touch Tour (optional)
Vancouver Playhouse - 600 Hamilton Street
Tickets are $19.99.
Call Electric Company Theatre at 604-253-4222 or email info@electriccompanytheatre.com
To download the word doc version of this video invite go to this link:
This video is of Carmen Aguirre reading a script. Partial Text is below, due to Youtube Word Count Limit:
Hello – my name is Carmen Aguirre and I am a Chilean-Canadian who arrived in Vancouver as a refugee when I was a child. I am also an author, playwright and core artist at Electric Company Theatre, and would like to tell you about our live described performance of my newest – and largest – play, called Anywhere But Here. We’re working with the incredible team at VocalEye to bring this production to life in rich description by the incomparable Rick Waines – and we would love to welcome you to our show on February 8 at 2pm at the Vancouver Playhouse at 600 Hamilton Street.
Now I will tell you a bit about the play. I have been working on this play for nearly six years now, and it is in draft 18 – and now is set to debut with my company, Electric Company Theatre. This production is the world premiere of this work, and also the largest latinx theatre piece to receive a world premiere on a Canadian Mainstage. Anywhere But Here is written in a magic realism style, which distinctly Latin American. Its a convention where time jumps forward and backward, and characters from different times encounter each other without questioning the difference in their times. It is truly a magical style.
The play is about a Chilean-Canadian refugee family living in Vancouver in 1979, having fled political persecution that followed the September 11, 1973 military coup in Chile that installed the infamous right-wing dictator Pinochet. The family refutes their refugee status in Canada and goes on a journey down the west coast of North America in a beat-up 1970’s convertible, trying to return to their former lives in Chile, the country that expelled them. When they arrive at the US Mexico Border, they encounter the 2020 wall, which is impassably high and electrified, as it is today between the US and Mexico. There they meet a host of characters from history, mythology and modern day, including a talking monarch butterfly with large colourful wings, a young American vigilante border guard from 2020, who shoots migrants as they try to cross the 2020 border, a teenage activist who is being hunted by the secret police after trying to unionize a Disney assembly plant in northern Mexico and has travelled by foot through the desert to reach the border, and a ghostly apparition of famed Bolivian-Argentinian revolutionary General Juana Azurduy de Padilla, dressed in her 1850’s military regalia, a mother of the feminist movement and fighter for South America’s independence from Spain, among others.
The family must confront what it is to be a refugee, what it is to be a family, and what defines home. Woven through the play, which I have peppered with humour and a sense of great joy and latinx pride, is some of the best 1970’s music you will remember, a lavish score of Latinx rhythms such as the Malambo drum, the Batucada, the Cumbia and more, and two rap pieces, rapped by a modern day Honduran migrant rapper on his journey north in the play, which have been co-written with my friend, Rwandan-Canadian Shad Kabango, who you may know from CBC and from his Juno-award winning hip hop career.
The cast has nine actors, five women and four men, almost entirely Latinx. The play is directed by Juliette Carrillo, a famed Mexican-American, or Chicanx, director whose vision for the play is spectacular. The set is designed by one of the most in-demand scenic designers in the US, Mexican American Christopher Acebo, who has created an elaborate world of mirrored plexiglass 18 inch risers that represent the border wall, a stage covered in sand that reflects in these mirrored risers, a beautiful projection screen with an LED lighting track that resembles the yellow lines of a road, and a beautiful backdrop of mountains with LED’s embedded in them. Mexican Canadian costume designer Carmen Alatorre has brought together a beautiful wardrobe for the show, from 1970’s bell bottom jeans, shaggy hair, and girls jumpsuits, to the modern day military gear of the minute man, General Juana’s 1850’s red military regalia, a flock of monarch butterflies, and an incredible representation of the Virgin Carmen, not me – the Virgin Carmen. Our projection designer, Mexican-Canadian Candelario Andrade provides a rich and delicious spectacle supporting the action, bringing us to the trains headed to the border, through the desert in a convertible, and here at home in 1970’’s Vancouver.
God of Carnage - Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company
Stu McNish of Oh Boy Productions interviews Max Reimer about God of Carnage at the Vancouver Playhouse April 14 - May 5, 2012.
God of Carnage
By Yasmina Reza
Translated by Christopher Hampton
Directed by Miles Potter
A co-production with Manitoba Theatre Centre
Vancouver Playhouse
Apr. 14 -- May 5, 2012
Box Office 604 873 3311
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Vancouver Playhouse Mural Restoration
Holly Peck - Human Robot Interaction
This is Holly Peck’s presentation at Sam Sullivan's 34th Public Salon on June 4th, 2019 at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre in Vancouver, BC.
Holly Peck is Director of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) at Sanctuary AI, where she leads the external deployment of humanoid robots - called synths - in experimental settings. Previously, Holly worked as a research scientist at Sanctuary, where she wrote code and did machine learning experiments integrating into the software minds of humanoid robots.
Holly is the founder and director of Women Who Code Vancouver, a community she grew from zero to 2000 techlords in two years. She is a 2018 Microsoft MVP in Artificial Intelligence, a 2018 BC Business 30 Under 30, and has consulted the Prime Minister on innovation in Vancouver.
On weekends, Holly programs polyphonic synthesizers and makes electronic music. In 2018, she released her first-ever electronic music album called “Nobody” as part of her synth-pop duo NUIT. Holly has a BA from Princeton University.
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Vancouver Playhouse 1987 TV commercial
Actor/writer/director Stuart Margolin appears in this 1987 television commercial for the Vancouver Playhouse theatrical company.
SSSBC The Saudi National Day of 2011
Saturday, September 24 · 6:30pm - 10:30pm
Location
Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company
301-601 Cambie st
Vancouver, BC
The Saudi National Day 2011
Live Performances..National Operetta..Traditional Dance..And More..
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Dr. Jen Wladichuk - Public Salon: - Environmental Acoustician
This is Dr. Jen Wladichuk’s presentation at Sam Sullivan's 32nd Public Salon on November 14th, 2018 at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre in Vancouver, BC.
Born and raised in Tsawwassen, BC, surrounded by water, Jen’s love of the ocean started at a young age. Her parents would take her and her siblings on their boat when they were still in diapers and her fascination with the marine world was ingrained. After completing high school, Jen went on to complete a BSc in Marine Biology at UBC. It was then, going into the last year of her degree, that she did a directed studies course studying grey whales along the central coast of BC. Due to her education and boating experience, she was asked to continue working as crew at the field station; so she traded in her summer job at a campground to drive boats and photograph whales. She became interested in how the whales accurately navigate and find food, which led her to doing a PhD on the underwater acoustics. After completing her doctorate at the University of Bath, UK, she returned home to the west coast and found a job at a local private environmental acoustics company, JASCO Applied Sciences, where she still works today. Jen has recently started a postdoctoral fellowship at UVic in collaboration with Fisheries and Oceans Canada to study the effects of noise on the echolocation of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales.
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Vancouver Playhouse's Jeff Schulz
Vancouver Playhouse board chair Jeff Schulz speaks at an announcement on March 9, 2012, about the decision to shut down the theatre company's operations.
City Lights - 2014 Vancouver International Wine Festival
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The Vancouver International Wine Festival, Canada's premier food & wine event, has three mandates: to provide an informative, educational and entertaining wine experience for public and trade; to be a premier marketing opportunity for the wine industry and festival partners; and to raise funds for the Bard on the Beach Theatre Society.
The festival grew from humble roots as a fundraising initiative of then Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company board member John E. Levine. The inaugural festival in 1979 featured one vintner - Robert Mondavi - and saw approximately 1,000 people attend the two-day event at Hycroft, the Shaughnessy mansion owned by Vancouver's University Women's Club.
In its second year, VanWineFest was also a one-winery show, but had grown by its fourth year to attract 45 California wineries, becoming known as the California Wine Festival. The ninth festival in 1987 was the first multi-national event, with wineries from six more countries joining to showcase their wines. After outgrowing several different venues, the Wine Festival moved to the Vancouver Convention Centre in 1988, where the main Tasting Room sessions have been held for the past 25 years.