Directed by Michelle Thorne

mfa directing student
Featuring:

Cassandra Bourchier

Monica Bowman

Drew Carlson

Hayden Davies

Daelyn Lester-Serafini

Jodi Margit

Drew Ogle

Sophia Paskalidis

Caleb Pleasure

Anni Ramsay

Laura Reynolds

Connor Riopel

Rafael Ruiz

Lorenzo Tesler-Mabe

Elizabeth Young
Jan 17-feb 2, 2019

telus studio Theatre, UBC

UBC THEATRE & FILM PRESENTS LION IN THE STREETSON THE SUBJECT

THE DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & FILM AT UBC PRESENTSLION IN THE STREETS BY JUDITH THOMPSON

Directed by MFA Directing Student Michelle Thorne

Award-winning Canadian playwright Judith Thompson’s seminal play, Lion in the Streets (1990), is a cumulative play whose central character, Isobel, is the ghost of a murdered, nine-year-old Fillipina. Returning to the neighbourhood seventeen years after her death, young Isobel drops into the lives of her neighbours and reveals the hauntingly raw underbelly of human nature. Ultimately hopeful, Lion in the Streets devours with devastating beauty. *

*Contains adult themes and language and therefore may not be suitable for younger audiences

Cast:

Isobel Sophia Paskalidis; Sue Cassandra Bourchier; Isobel’s Father/Ron/Midnight Man Rafael Ruiz; Bill/Ben Hayden Davies; Laura/Sherry Daelyn Lester-Serafini; George Drew Ogle; Lily/Ellen Monica Bowman; Jill/Scarlett Elizabeth Young; Rhonda Drew Carlson; Joanne Laura Reynolds; Rachel/Christine Anni Ramsay; Scalato/PTA Parent/Rodney Caleb Pleasure; Timmy/David/Michael Connor Riopel; Martin/Father Hayes/Edward Lorenzo Tesler-Mabe; Nellie/PTA Parent/Joan Jodi Margit

Designers and Stage Management:

Costume Design Alice Jiang; Scenic Design Emily Dotson; Lighting Design Rachel Shaen; Sound Design YuYu Ogido; Stage Manager Emily Spencer

Media Requests:

Andrea Rabinovitch
Office: 604.822.3723, Cell: 604.314.3905
andrea.rabinovitch@ubc.ca

Performances:

January 17-February 2, 2019, 7:30 pm. Show runs Wed.- Sat.

Preview: January 16
Opening Night Reception: January 17
Post-show Talkback: January 23
Wine/Show pairings by alumna Barbara Phillip MW at the Chan Centre Bar.

Telus Studio Theatre
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
6265 Crescent Rd.
Wayfinding: http://maps.ubc.ca

Tickets:

SINGLE TICKETS: Adults: $24.50. Seniors: $16.50. Students: $11.50, Youth: $5
Box office: 604.822.2678, box.office@ubc.ca or ubctheatretickets.com

Director, LION IN THE STREETSMichelle Thorne

Michelle Thorne is an award-winning, multi-disciplined theatre artist originally from Fort McMurray, Alberta. Thorne began her professional training at the Keyano Visual and Performing Arts program and completed her BFA in Theatre Performance from The University of Lethbridge. Thorne is the original Artistic Director and co-founder of Theatre; Just Because, where she directed Louis and Dave, The Most Massive Woman Wins, Fanny and Manny Tie the Knot, The Awesome 80s Prom, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and The Wresting Play. Most recently Thorne led and directed Bugsy Malone Jr. for the Keyano Theatre Drama Force Summer Youth Intensive Program. Other directorial credits include Steel Magnolias (Keyano Theatre Stage 2 Series), The Other Side of the Pole (Keyano Theatre), The Creation of the World (commissioned for the 2015 Arctic Winter Games), Great Slave Lake, and Tuesdays and Sundays (UBC).

playwright JUDITH THOMPSONLION IN THE STREETS

Judith Clare Thompson, OC (born September 20, 1954) is a Canadian playwright who lives in Toronto, Ontario. She has twice been awarded the Governor General's Award for drama, and is the recipient of many other awards including the Order of Canada, the Walter Carsen Performing Arts Award, the Toronto Arts Award, The Epilepsy Ontario Award, The B'nai B'rith Award, the Dora, the Chalmers, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award (a global competition for the best play written by a woman in the English Language) and the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, both for Palace of the End, which premiered at Canadian Stage, and has been produced all over the world in many languages. She has received honorary doctorates from Thorneloe University and, in Nov. 2016, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

Lion in the Streets (1990) uses a structure similar to Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde to follow violent and cruel impulses from one character to another, a route which the ghost of a young murdered girl, Isobel, uses to track down her killer. A penultimate scene which Thompson cut after the first workshop production of the play, was restored for the 1999 Theatre Kingston production, and Thompson has since then included the scene in published editions of the play as one of two alternative versions. Productions of the play have been held in a wide variety of North American locations, including Toronto, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Portland and Vancouver, but also Łódź, Poland. In 1991, Thompson adapted and directed Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler for the Shaw Festival. A remount of Thompson's adaptation appeared at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in 2005. Her adaptation was also performed at the Mainline Theatre in Montreal in February 2008. Her translation of Serge Boucher's Motel Hélène appeared at the Tarragon Theatre in 2001.

From Wikipedia.

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