Advance Theatre: New Works By Women

at the False Creek Gym (1318 Cartwright Street)

Ruby Slippers Theatre and Equity in Theatre have partnered with the Fringe to showcase dramatic readings of five new plays by Canadian women playwrights. According to a national study, women account for less than a third of artistic directors, working directors, and produced playwrights in professional Canadian theatre. Hence, Advance Theatre! Curated by Ruby Slippers Theatre with priority given to diversity, these five new plays by diverse Canadian women and directed by diverse Canadian women will be presented as matinees during the Festival.

Tickets are available at the door only and are pay-what-you-can with a suggested price of $5 to $10.

	AIMING TO FLOAT Playwright: Janet Hinton Directed by Laura McLean Monday, September 12, 1:30pm At a pain clinic, a new and uncooperative patient clashes with her exercise therapist. Faced with crises of physical and emotional pain, together they discover the possibility of love. 75 minutes / 14+ / Coarse Language / Mature Content / Sexual Content
	ZAHGIDIWIN/LOVE Playwright: Frances Koncan Directed by Christine Quintana franceskoncan.com Tuesday, September 13, 1:30pm In the not-so-distant postcolonial future, a young Anishinaabe woman embarks upon a journey through time and space to rediscover the truth about love, living her best life, and growing up as fabulously as possible amidst the intergenerational trauma of cultural genocide. Weird / Intellectual / Multicultural / 60 minutes / 14+ / Coarse Language
	THE LONG CALL Playwright: Jenn Griffin Directed by Heidi Taylor Wednesday, September 14, 1:30pm The Long Call is a multimedia tale of Holly, a former exotic dancer and mature recent university grad, whose life dream is to free captive orangutans into the wild. A silent promise to a certain orangutan named Popi seems finally within reach until Holly’s estranged underworld ex-boyfriend Jack, shows up at 3:00am to settle an ancient score. Funny / Poetic / Intimate / 90 minutes / 14+ / Coarse Language / Sexual Content / Violent Content / Gunshots / Strobe Lights
Photo by: Adrian Cook	ANYWHERE BUT HERE Playwright: Carmen Aguirre Directed by Anita Rochon carmenaguirre.ca Thursday, September 15, 1:30pm A darkly comic, magic realist play that centres around the quest for home. A family of four Chilean refugees drive a mint condition, hot pink 1950s convertible through the Arizona desert, en route to Chile, which, according to the father, is paradise. Multicultural / 120 minutes / 14+ / Coarse Language / Mature Content Photo by Adrian Cook.
	WOMEN OF PAPIYEK Full Circle: First Nations Performance Playwright: Quelemia Sparrow Directed by Kim Harvey Friday, September 16 1:30pm Generations of European and Indigenous mixed race families lived in Papiyek (now called Brockton Point in Stanley Park) before being evicted from their homes and forced to re-locate. This is the story of three Indigenous women who lived in Papiyek at the turn of the 20th century. 60 minutes / 14+