THE DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & FILM AT UBC PRESENTSWIVES AND DAUGHTERS BY JACQUELINE FIRKINS

Adapted from a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell
Directed by MFA Directing Alumna Courtenay Dobbie

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Nov. 9 - 25, 2017, no show Sunday, Monday or Tuesday.

Preview: November 8, 2017
Opening Night Reception: November 9, 2017
Post-Show Talkback: November 15, 2017.

Frederic Wood Theatre
6354 Crescent Rd.
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA
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playwrightJACQUELINE FIRKINS

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JACQUELINE FIRKINS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & FILM

JACQUELINE FIRKINS BA (Drew), MFA (Yale) has designed sets or costume for over 100 productions across North America. Venues include: the Goodman Theatre, Writer’s Theater of Chicago, Court Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Longwharf Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Portland Center Stage, Marin Theatre Company, Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, and Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.

Jacqueline is a recipient of a 2001 Princess Grace Award and a 2010 Black Theatre Alliance award for excellence in costume design.

Wives and Daughters is the second in a series of women’s Victorian novels she’s adapted for the stage with the students in the UBC Department of Theatre and Film.

 

authorElizabeth Gaskell

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Gaskell was a Victorian novelist, also notable for her biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë.

Elizabeth Stevenson was born in London on 29 September 1810, the daughter of a Unitarian minister. After her mother's early death, she was raised by an aunt who lived in Knutsford in Cheshire. In 1832, she married William Gaskell, also a Unitarian minister, and they settled in the industrial city of Manchester.

Motherhood and the obligations of a minister's wife kept her busy. However, the death of her only son inspired her to write her first novel, 'Mary Barton', which was published anonymously in 1848. It was an immediate success, winning the praise of Charles Dickens and Thomas Carlyle.

Dickens invited her to contribute to his magazine, 'Household Words', where her next major work, 'Cranford', appeared in 1853. 'North and South' was published the following year. Gaskell's work brought her many friends, including the novelist Charlotte Brontë. When Charlotte died in 1855, her father, Patrick Brontë, asked Gaskell to write her biography. The 'Life of Charlotte Brontë' (1857) was written with admiration and covered a huge quantity of firsthand material with great narrative skill.

Gaskell died on 12 November 1865, leaving her longest work, 'Wives and Daughters' incomplete.

 

Theatre DirectorCOURTENAY DOBBIE

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Courtenay, recently returned to Vancouver after seven years as Artistic Director of Caravan Farm Theatre where she directed The Notorious Right Robert & His Robber Bride, The Gift Horse, Old Nick, Head Over Heels, The Tragical Comedy of Punch & Judy, The Night’s Mare, Bedstefader, and Our Town. 

Having performed, directed, choreographed or created for many Canadian theatre companies: Green Thumb Theatre, Theatre Melee (Co-Founder/Ensemble Member), Arts Club Theatre Company, Vancouver Playhouse, Belfry Theatre, Axis Theatre, Neworld Theatre, Touchstone Theatre, Carousel Theatre, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Magnetic North Theatre Festival, Electric Company Theatre, Globe Theatre, she is Co-Founder/ Creator, with Ajineen Sagal, of The Pussy Willows.

A graduate of Mount Royal College and Studio 58 with an MFA Directing degree from UBC, she presently teaches acting at Studio 58.