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THE TRESPASSERS

THE LIFE INSIDE


THE CRYPTOGRAM SEASON
2 PIANOS 4 HANDS
MY RABBI
SIGN LANGUAGE
GUIDE
September 2010 –
DO YOU WANT WHAT I HAVE GOT?
A CRAIGSLIST CANTATA
May 2011
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4 THE TRESPASSERS
6 THE LIFE INSIDE
8 THE CRYPTOGRAM
10 SPARK FESTIVAL 2011
12 2 PIANOS 4 HANDS
14 THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
On Tour
16 Season Playwrights
18 Season Calendar
20 Tickets
22 Audience Services
24 Getting Here
Magical thinking.
26 Inside the Belfry Flights of the imagination.
28 Community Outreach Stories of young people – which are stories of us all.
Our hopes, our dreams, our introduction to the world.
31 New Play Development
32 Support Us An exciting new season, with a new Canadian play
34 Season Sponsors from the fertile mind of Morris Panych, a Canadian classic
filled with music and comedy, an intriguing story
from American master David Mamet, and a piece of music
theatre commissioned by the Belfry and created
Box Office / Information 250-385-6815 especially for you, our audience.
1291 Gladstone Avenue, Victoria, BC, Canada, V8T 1G5
Administration 250-385-6835 Fax 250-385-6336 Join us as we continue down our creative
hello@belfry.bc.ca www.belfry.bc.ca and imaginative path.

The Belfry Theatre is a registered not-for-profit professional theatre company operating Mary Desprez Michael Shamata
within the Canadian Theatre Agreement in association with Canadian Actors’ Equity General Manager Artistic Director
Association, and is an active member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres
(PACT), and the Professional Arts Alliance of Greater Victoria (ProArt).

Charitable Registration Number: 119215549 RR0001

All plays and players subject to availability.


Mainstage One
September 14 – October 17, 2010 “Charming and, this being Panych, funny.” National Post

“... a cause for celebration ...” Toronto Star

“... a melancholic, darkly humorous and wrenchingly beautiful

THE portrait of life, death, love and family.” Waterloo Region Record

“It’s bittersweet but not terribly so, and Panych’s meaty dialogue
is smoothly handled.” Associated Press

TRESPASSERS
BY MORRIS PANYCH

Actors Morris Panych, playwright, actor, and director, has


Brian Dooley been described as “a man for all seasons in Canadian
Natascha Girgis theatre.” His best-known works, including Vigil,
Karin Konoval The Overcoat, and 7 Stories, have been produced
Ron Lea around the world, and he is the recipient of two
Amitai Marmorstein Governor General’s Awards for Drama.

Director Lowell is a fifteen-year-old boy with no


Ron Jenkins conventional role models. He’s caught between
Cash, his born-again mother, and Hardy,
Designers his rambunctious granddad whose penchant
Narda McCarroll for gambling and radical socialism has made
Kerem Çetinel him persona non grata in town. A mysterious
Brian Linds murder in an abandoned peach orchard has
brought Lowell to the attention of the police
Stage Manager and now he must choose his truth. Or as Hardy
Kim Charleen Smith has taught him,“There’s something in between
lying and not lying. It’s called a story.”
In association with the
Vancouver Playhouse
Theatre Company

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Mainstage Two
November 16 – December 19, 2010

THE LIFE World Premiere

INSIDE
BY JAMES FAGAN TAIT &
Actors
Kyle Cameron JOELYSA PANKANEA
Jeremy Crittenden
Lina de Guevara
Sarah Donald
Elizabeth Duncan
Deanna Guttierrez Based on Maurice Maeterlinck’s 1895 play, Intérieur,
Mark Hellman The Life Inside is a unique piece of music theatre
Michaela Holmes created specifically for the Belfry and the largest
Richard Hurst production in our history.
Clayton Jevne
Laura McCarthy Like their celebrated adaptation of Crime and
Richard Newman Punishment, Tait and composer Pankanea have
Similkameen O'Rourke crafted a highly stylized, yet cinematically
Barbara Poggemiller performed piece that engages both the heart
Katie Schoenberg and the mind. Peasants on a country estate
Jan Wood must deliver tragic news regarding a young girl
to the members of her family, whom we see
Director through the windows of their home.
James Fagan Tait The tensions between life and death, happiness About Crime and Punishment –
and profound sadness, blissful ignorance
Musical Director and painful knowledge give The Life Inside “Crime and Punishment is elegiac: profound in its themes, huge
Joelysa Pankanea a bittersweet, aching quality, and a connection in its spectacle, and restrained in its aesthetic. The simple power
to a universal wisdom as old as man. of it all is enough to make you weep.” The Georgia Straight
Designers
Bryan Pollock “... this wholly local production deserves an international spotlight.
Mara Gottler All in all it’s an experience that’s not to be missed.” Vancouver Sun
Itai Erdal
Cathy Stubington “ Utterly remarkable.” Vancouver Courier

Stage Manager
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Mainstage Three
“First rate... spooky, elliptical, full of wit... Not in any stage January 25 – February 27, 2011
literature that I know has childhood been as movingly evoked
as it is in The Cryptogram.” New York Times

“Powerful... His most personal work... A whodunit with the it waiting


to happen... Spooky and exciting.” Newsweek

“Heart stopping... Where other dramatists are writing melodrama


about the dysfunctional family, Mamet has written high tragedy.” THE
CRYPTOGRAM
Boston Herald

BY DAVID MAMET

Mamet received Tony Award nominations Actors


for Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow, Vincent Gale
a Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross Jennifer Lines
and Oscar nominations for The Verdict
and Wag the Dog. He also wrote Oleanna Director
and the screenplay for The Untouchables. Gina Wilkinson

In this gripping short play, Mamet combines Designers


mercurial intelligence with genuinely Lorenzo Savoini
Hitchcockian menace. Bristling with tension Michael Walton
and undisclosed secrets, Mamet dramatizes
the betrayal and abandonment of family Stage Manager
and friendship. Set in 1959, The Cryptogram Kim Charleen Smith
is a journey back to childhood and the
moment of its vanishing – the moment when
the sheltering world is suddenly revealed
as a place full of menace where the grownups
are speaking in code, and that code may
never be breakable.

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March 7– 20, 2011
Our highly successful SPARK Festival features
free mini plays, free play readings,
Belfry101 Live, professional development

SPARK workshops and these outstanding new plays.

FESTIVAL
2011
Week One Week Two
March 7–13 March 14 –20
Staged Reading Mainstage
MY RABBI THE MIDDLE PLACE BELFRY 101 LIVE
BY JOEL BERNBAUM & BY ANDREW KUSHNIR Belfry 101 Live is an exciting theatre event, collectively
KAYVON KHOSHKAM Directed by created by the remarkable high school students
Directed by Alan Dilworth of Belfry 101 Onstage. Themes and images from the
Michael Shamata Project Humanity, Toronto plays in the Belfry’s current season mix together with
the students’ own ideas and concerns, generating
Mainstage Studio an original, surprising, and always entertaining piece
SIGN LANGUAGE KISMET of theatre.
WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY ONE TO ONE HUNDRED Led by actor/teacher Kate Rubin, these students
DENISE CLARK CREATED & PERFORMED BY have been immersed in all things theatrical –
One Yellow Rabbit, Calgary EMELIA SYMINGTON FEDY meeting actors, attending performances, asking
SPARK Festival pass
DARYL KING questions and sharing their reactions. Now it’s their
For only $72 (+ HST)
Studio – Workshop Production ANITA ROCHON turn! Don’t miss this unique component of the
you can get four vouchers
HAZEL VENZON Belfry’s SPARK Festival.
DO YOU WANT WHAT (valid for any show
Directed by or performance)
I HAVE GOT? Anita Rochon to see these outstanding
A CRAIGSLIST CANTATA The Chop Theatre, Vancouver new works.
BY VEDA HILLE &
BILL RICHARDSON
Directed by
Ami Gladstone
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Mainstage Four
April 12 – May 15, 2011

2 PIANOS
4 HANDS
BY TED DYKSTRA &
RICHARD GREENBLATT

The year after it premiered – before it became Actors


an unstoppable juggernaut – 2 Pianos 4 Hands Tom Frey &
played at the Belfry for one week during Richard Carsey
our Festival. After touring five continents and
150 cities, this riotous tale of two boys and their Director
pianos returns. Richard Greenblatt

From Chopsticks to Bach, the boys play it all Designer


in their quest to become concert pianists. Steve Lucas
Through their trials and tribulations with
music festivals, unusual teachers and Stage Manager
“2 Pianos 4 Hands... is funny, clever, insightful and touching, full of music, demanding parents, they learn what it means Kim Charleen Smith
humour, story and character.” Globe and Mail to be good, but not quite good enough
to follow their dreams. With a dazzling range In association with
“A rare jewel of real entertainment...” Daily Mail of characters and a show of piano wizardry, Marquis Entertainment
2 Pianos 4 Hands is a glowing tribute
“An unexpected charmer. Anyone who has ever taken a piano lesson, to the magic of music and the quest for Dora Mavor Moore
or, much more significant, ever simply encountered some kind of career greatness. 2 Pianos 4 Hands continues our Award for Outstanding
or life disappointment and moved on, can identify with their story, exploration of plays from the Canadian canon. Production
chuckle and have a great time.” New York Post
Chalmers Award
“A crescendo of pleasure...” Washington Post for Playwriting

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On Tour
Toronto November 2 – December 12, 2010
Ottawa January 16 – 29, 2011

THE YEAR
OF MAGICAL
THINKING
BY JOAN DIDION

Actor Our award winning production of The Year of


Seana McKenna Magical Thinking will be on tour this fall and winter
with stops at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto
Director and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
Michael Shamata
The leading lady of the Stratford Festival
Designers and one of Canada’s most renowned actresses,
John Ferguson Seana McKenna stars in this one-woman
Michael Walton tour-de-force. Based on Joan Didion’s best-selling “McKenna is, quite simply, perfect.” Victoria News
memoir, The Year Of Magical Thinking captures
Composer the compassion, humour and bewilderment
Brad L’Écuyer of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world
lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the
Stage Manager unimaginable. This magnificently written
Anne Murphy meditation on grief – a place none of us know
until we reach it – is also a celebration of family,
filled with a luminous belief in the power
of the human spirit to overcome heartbreak
and to endure.

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Season
Playwrights
Ted Dykstra

Richard
James Fagan Tait Joelysa Pankanea Greenblatt

David Mamet

Emelia
Symington Fedy

Daryl King

Veda Hille Bill Richardson


Morris Panych

Anita Rochon

Hazel Venzon

Joan Didion Denise Clark Andrew Kushnir


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Season Calendar 2011
To purchase tickets call our Box Office at 250-385-6815 SUN MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT
or visit us online at www.belfry.bc.ca.
BOX OFFICE HOURS During Performance Weeks JAN 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
8pm Crypt 8pm Crypt 8pm Crypt 8pm Crypt 4 pm Crypt
Monday 9:30 am – 5 pm P P O 8pm Crypt
Tuesday – Saturday 9:30 am – 7 pm 30 31 FEB 1 2 3 4 5
Tuesday – Sunday One hour prior to curtain time for in person sales only. 2 pm Crypt 8pm Crypt 1pm Crypt 8pm Crypt 8pm Crypt 4 pm Crypt
8pm Crypt A 8pm Crypt
During Non-performance Weeks
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Monday – Friday 9:30 am – 5 pm 2 pm Crypt 8pm Crypt 1pm Crypt 8pm Crypt 8pm Crypt 4 pm Crypt
2010 CM 8pm Crypt B 8pm Crypt

SUN MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT 13 14 15 16 17 18 19


2 pm Crypt 8pm Crypt 8 pm Crypt 8pm Crypt 8pm Crypt 4 pm Crypt
8pm Crypt
SEPT 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
8pm Tres 8pm Tres 8pm Tres 8pm Tres 4 pm Tres
P P O 8pm Tres 2 pm Crypt 8pm Crypt 8 pm Crypt 8pm Crypt 8pm Crypt 4 pm Crypt
8pm Crypt
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
2 pm Tres 8pm Tres 1pm Tres 8pm Tres 8pm Tres 4 pm Tres 27 28 MAR 1 2 3 4 5
8pm Tres A 8pm Tres 2 pm Crypt

26 27 28 29 30 OCT 1 2
2 pm Tres 8pm Tres 1pm Tres 8pm Tres 8pm Tres 4 pm Tres 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
CM 8pm Tres B 8pm Tres SPARK FESTIVAL
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
2 pm Tres 8pm Tres 8 pm Tres 8pm Tres 8pm Tres 4 pm Tres 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
8pm Tres MARCH 7–20
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
2 pm Tres 8pm Tres 8 pm Tres 8pm Tres 8pm Tres 4 pm Tres 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
8pm Tres
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
2 pm Tres 27 28 29 30 31 APR 1 2

24 25 26 27 28 29 30
3 4 5 6 7 8 9

31 NOV 1 2 3 4 5 6
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
8pm Pianos 8pm Pianos 8pm Pianos 8pm Pianos 4 pm Pianos
P P O 8pm Pianos
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
2 pm Pianos 8pm Pianos 1pm Pianos 8pm Pianos 8pm Pianos 4 pm Pianos
8pm Pianos A 8pm Pianos
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
8pm Life 8pm Life 8pm Life 8pm Life 4 pm Life 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
P P O 8pm Life 2 pm Pianos 8pm Pianos 1pm Pianos 8pm Pianos 8pm Pianos 4 pm Pianos
CM 8pm Pianos B 8pm Pianos
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
2 pm Life 8pm Life 1pm Life 8 pm Life 8 pm Life 4 pm Life MAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8pm Life A 8pm Life 2 pm Pianos 8pm Pianos 8 pm Pianos 8pm Pianos 8pm Pianos 4 pm Pianos
8pm Pianos
28 29 30 DEC 1 2 3 4
2 pm Life 8pm Life 1pm Life 8 pm Life 8 pm Life 4 pm Life 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
CM 8pm Life B 8pm Life 2 pm Pianos 8pm Pianos 8 pm Pianos 8pm Pianos 8pm Pianos 4 pm Pianos
8pm Pianos
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
2 pm Life 8pm Life 8 pm Life 8 pm Life 8 pm Life 4 pm Life 15
8pm Life 2 pm Pianos

12 13 14 15 16 17 18
2 pm Life 8pm Life 8 pm Life 8 pm Life 8 pm Life 4 pm Life
8pm Life P Preview O Opening A Afterplay CM Childcare Matinee B Belfry 101
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Tickets Season Ticket Prices Mainstage Single Ticket Prices Student Discounts
High school students get half
Our flexible season ticket packages To ameliorate the new
Season tickets are on sale now. include four tickets, one for each Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) price tickets and post-secondary
of our four Mainstage productions. on theatre tickets, we have students receive a 25% discount
Single tickets, for all
dropped our single ticket prices for any Belfry production
of our productions, Or you can pick and choose
for the 2010 – 2011 Season. (excluding Fridays and Saturdays
go on sale September 7. with our Six Pack Vouchers. at 8 pm and Opening Nights).
For a detailed season ticket order Seniors’ prices are listed second. Students need only show valid ID
Reserved Seating Performances –
form, call us at 250-385-6815. to claim their discount.
You choose your seats
If you have received this guide Reserved Seating Performances – in advance.
in the mail, an order form You choose your seats in advance. Ticket Exchanges
is enclosed. Fridays & Saturdays at 8 pm Tickets may be exchanged
Fridays & Saturdays at 8 pm $ 37 for another performance
$132 / $128 (within that production/subject
Saturdays at 4 pm
Saturdays at 4 pm $ 32 to availability) providing they
Sold Out are received at the Box Office
How to Buy Tickets Wednesdays & Thursdays at 8 pm (in person, by mail, fax or email)
Wednesdays & Thursdays at 8 pm $ 32 at least 48 hours prior to the
By Telephone 250-385-6815 $112 / $108
Wednesday Matinees at 1pm performance for which they
Calls are answered in sequence. Wednesday Matinees at 1pm $ 27 were issued. Exchanges are
Please have your credit card $100 / $ 96 $1 per ticket (free for season
ready, as well as the date Sunday Matinees at 2 pm
Sunday Matinees at 2 pm ticket holders). If exchanging for
and time of the performance $ 27
$100 / $ 96 a higher-priced ticket, you will
you wish to attend. be asked to pay the difference.
Open Seating Performances –
Open Seating Performances – You choose your seats
In Person Service Charges
You choose your seats when you arrive at the theatre.
Drop by our Box Office – We don’t really have any.
when you arrive at the theatre.
see page18 for Box Office hours. Previews at 8 pm If you would like us to mail your
Previews & Tuesdays at 8 pm $ 22 single tickets to you in advance,
Via Fax $ 83 we will charge you $1 to cover
Tuesdays at 8 pm
Fax your order to 250-385-6336. postage and the cost of the
Attend Anytime – $ 22
Please include your name, envelope. That’s all.
address, phone number, the date You choose the day you would
and time of the performance like to attend. All ticket sales are non-refundable.
SPARK Festival Ticket prices are subject
you wish to attend and Strollers Single Ticket Prices to change without notice.
the best time for us to call you $132 / $128
to confirm your reservation. All performances HST (Harmonized Sales Tax)
Six Pack Vouchers $ 20 is not included.
Via Web $198 / $192
Visit our website at
www.belfry.bc.ca, and complete SPARK Festival –
our online ticket request form. You can add a Four Show
SPARK Festival pass
We accept Visa, Mastercard, to your season ticket order.
American Express, Debit Card, Four Show SPARK Festival pass
Cheques, and, of course, Cash. $ 72
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The Benefits of Season Tickets
Each year thousands of people
buy season tickets to the Belfry.
Audience
Here’s why:
Services
Save up to 16 %
Become a season ticket holder and
save up to 16% off single tickets.
If you have any other questions
Best Seats in the House please give us
Our reserved seating packages a call at 250-385-6815
guarantee you the same seat or email us at
on your night for all four shows. boxoffice@belfry.bc.ca.
If you would like to change your
seats next season, you will be
given priority.

Easy Ticket Exchange We’re Casual Audience Advisories / Wheelchair Access


If you can’t attend your scheduled While you can if you wish, there’s Running Times The Belfry is fully wheelchair
performance, return your tickets no need to dress up for the Belfry. accessible, including a wheelchair
to the box office at least 48 hours We make every effort to advise
We like you just the way you are. you of strong language, subject accessible washroom. As space
prior to your performance within the theatre is limited, we ask
(in person, by mail, fax or email) matter or extreme technical effects
Ticket Exchanges (strobe lights, fog). Please look you to book wheelchair seating
and receive tickets for another in advance. Please let us know if
performance of the same play. Tickets may be exchanged for for signs at the entrances to the
theatre. Advisories and running you have an attendant with whom
An upgrade fee may apply. another performance (within that you wish to sit.
Exchanges start September7, 2010. production/subject to availability) times are available at the
providing they are received at Box Office as of the first preview.
Choice the Box Office (in person, by mail, Guide and
We offer eight different season fax or email) at least 48 hours prior Latecomers and Companion Dogs
ticket packages, one is sure to fit to the performance for which
your lifestyle. Some are designed they were issued. Exchanges are
Re-admission Guide and medically required
for the budget minded (Previews The Director of each production companion dogs are welcome in
$1 per ticket (free for season ticket the theatre. For audience safety
and Matinees), and others offer holders). If exchanging for designates moments in the show
set evenings throughout the year when the seating of latecomers and comfort you must inform us
a higher-priced ticket, you will that you are bringing a dog when
so you can plan ahead. If you be asked to pay the difference. will cause the least amount of
need flexible season tickets we distraction for actors and audience you book your tickets.
recommend our Six Pack Vouchers – members. Should you leave
at your convenience you can Gift Certificates the theatre, our House Manager Perfume and Cologne
choose the shows and times you Tickets to the Belfry make terrific will not be able to reseat you until Please refrain from using perfume
would like to attend. Christmas, birthday or anniversary one of these breaks. and cologne when you come to
presents. Please contact the the theatre. Some of our patrons
Free Childcare Box Office, and we will send you are highly allergic to scents.
During one of our Sunday Matinees, a certificate for any value. Your
we offer free, professional childcare recipients can then select whatever
(ages 3 to 5). Space is limited. production and dates they desire.
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B
BAY ST.
B
Getting Here Restaurants
There are six restaurants / cafés
within metres of the theatre.
Free Parking Fernwood Inn
You may park free of charge 1302 Gladstone Avenue
in the Victoria High School 250-412-2001
parking lot during any evening Walking time / 1minute
COOK ST.

PEMBROKE ST. PEMBROKE ST. or weekend performance. Stage


During our Wednesday Matinees, 1307 Gladstone Avenue
ATHLETIC

that parking lot is reserved,


ROYAL

C 250-388-4222
B and your car will be towed. Walking time / 1minute
GLADSTONE AVE. GLADSTONE AVE. Please use the street parking
Lucy’s in the Square

STANLEY AVE.
B indicated on the map.
Belfry 1296 Gladstone Avenue
CALEDONIA AVE. Theatre
B 778-430-5829
CHAMBERS ST.

Bus Service
B Walking time / 1minute

FERNWOOD RD.
VINING ST. The Belfry is serviced directly by
VIC the 22 Haultain / Burnside Bus.
HIGH Stir It Up
Routes 1, 2,10, 24, 25, 27 & 28 1284 Gladstone Avenue
GRANT ST. GRANT ST. all stop within three blocks of 250-590-6694
the theatre. Routes 11 & 14 stop Walking time / 1minute
within five blocks of the theatre.
Cornerstone Café
Bicycles 1301 Gladstone Avenue
B 250-381-1884
There are a number of bike


PANDORA AVE. (to Downtown) Walking time / 1minute


racks in the courtyard outside
ST.
BIE the theatre. Little Piggy
G
BE 1284 Gladstone Avenue


250-483-4171


JOHNSON ST. (to Oak Bay) Walking time / 1minute


B
We also recommend the
following restaurants in the city:
B Bus Stops Free Parking C Childcare Blue Crab Bar & Grill
146 Kingston Street
250-480-1999
Driving time / 15 minutes
The Local Kitchen
1205 Wharf Street
250-385-1999
Driving time / 15 minutes
Vic’s Steakhouse and Bar
345 Quebec Street
250-480-6585
Driving time / 15 minutes
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Inside Community
the Belfry Outreach
and
Education
The Belfry offers a number of
programmes designed to enrich
your theatre-going experience,
as well as outreach activities
aimed at students and emerging
and established artists within
our community.
The Belfry Theatre began producing The Belfry’s mission is to produce Volunteers
plays in 1976. As a professional adult theatre that generates ideas The Belfry has over 250 dedicated Afterplay
theatre company, we are dedicated and dialogue, and that makes the people who volunteer as ushers Our talkbacks, or Question &
to producing contemporary plays, audience see the world a little and bar staff during performances. Answer sessions, take place
with an emphasis on Canadian differently. Many of these amazing people following the second Thursday
work, and to promoting artistic, have been with the theatre for years, performance of each show
cultural, and educational events Building including a few who have been (check our calendar for dates).
in the Greater Victoria Region. volunteering since the theatre’s
The company resides in a former After the curtain call, some
Baptist Church built between inception. of the actors and technicians
In the past 30 years the Belfry has
1887 and 1892. From the company’s will return to the stage to answer
produced 220 plays, including The Belfry, like all charitable,
inception until 1991 the Belfry your questions, and provide
150 Canadian plays, and more than not-for-profit organizations,
rented the main theatre space insight into the play you have
32 premieres. Many of those is governed by a volunteer
in the building and shared the just experienced. These Q & A
premiere productions have gone Board of Directors.
complex with a homeless shelter. sessions generally last 20 minutes.
on to acclaim across Canada,
in the U.S., Australia, Europe and In 1991, then owners, The Cool-Aid
Society, relocated, and the Belfry Re:actor
London’s West End. Belfry
began the first of five capital Re:actor takes the talkback to
productions regularly tour to other
campaigns to buy and restore a whole new level. We transform
cities and have won awards in
the building. Renovations were the theatre lobby into a lounge
Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary.
completed in 2000 with the and offer relaxed and interactive
restoration of the exterior. The evenings with renowned
The Belfry produces up to 12 plays
building is listed in the heritage Canadian theatre artists, free
per year: one or two summer
registry and has won a number of charge. Come and listen,
productions, a four play Mainstage
of awards for its restoration. ask questions, enjoy a coffee
series, and SPARK, our mid-winter
or a beer, and expand your social
festival of innovative and alternative
network.
work from across Canada.

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Outreach continued themes of humanity and larger SPARK Festival. During their Each reading is followed by
social issues, while gaining Spring Vacation, these students a casual discussion of the play,
Belfry 101 an understanding of professional spend one week at the Belfry often with the playwright
Belfry 101 is our signature theatre and the creation process. exploring, improvising, writing, and/or translator in attendance.
educational program, specially and ultimately creating their Worldplay is a compelling way
developed for students in Belfry 101 Onstage and Offstage own production based on their to discover other cultures and
Grades 11 and 12. Students apply A number of the Belfry 101 responses to themes and images approaches to theatre.
to take part in the program students move into the Belfry101 from the shows they have seen
and commit between 40 and Onstage programme, which throughout the Belfry season. Apprenticeships
100 hours over the course of the takes the creation process even Belfry 101 Offstage students have Apprenticeships are offered in
school year. Belfry 101 provides further, offering them an opportunities to learn about conjunction with the University
a safe and accepting place opportunity to collectively create stage management and other of Victoria's Theatre Department
where young people can explore their own production for the technical aspects of theatre with and the Canadian College
professionals in the field. of Performing Arts. The Belfry
Theatre offers apprenticeships
Participation in Belfry 101 is by in performance, production,
application (forms available design, stage management, and
online). The programme runs audience services.
from September to April. The
students pay only the cost of Professional Development
half-price tickets for five shows. Workshops
A feature of the SPARK Festival,
Incubator we offer a variety of stimulating
Our Incubator initiative is a workshops with leading theatre
springboard for Vancouver practitioners from across the
Island’s most exciting artists, country.
whether new on the scene, or
already established. Incubator Reading Copies
aims to help local independent Reading copies of plays from
theatre companies explore new seasons past and present are
artistic territory. If companies available in our Script Library.
have exciting ideas for expanding Whether you are looking for
their artistic reach, the Belfry will a monologue for an audition or
offer resources and mentorship would like to spend more time
to help make it happen. getting to know a play you’ve
just seen, our Script Library
Application forms for Incubator is a good resource.
2012 are available on our website.

Worldplay If you would like to learn more


Worldplay is a series of public about these activities, or to
readings produced by Puente join our re:actor e-news list
Theatre – readings of plays in for our outreach events, please
translation, new or established, contact our Artistic Associate
from a diversity of cultures – at associate@belfry.bc.ca
and hosted at the Belfry Theatre.
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New Play
Development

Every year, behind the scenes, During the 2010 –2011Season, The Tina Modotti Project, by
the Belfry commits time, energy the Belfry has a number of works Carmen Aguirre, examining the
and resources to commissioning in development, including: remarkable and fascinating life
playwrights, workshopping of artist and spy Tina Modotti,
new plays, making space available Trauma Farm, an adaptation by through the eyes of a modern-day
to writers, actors and dramaturgs, Charles Tidler, of Salt Spring Island Canadian artist.
contributing to plays-in-development writer Brian Brett’s award-winning
at other theatre companies, and Trauma Farm, A Rebel History of My Rabbi, by Joel Bernbaum and
reading and responding to scripts Rural Life. Kayvon Khoshkam (to be given
from across the country. a staged reading during the
Taking It Off, a new comedy about 2011 SPARK Festival).
dieting and body image, by
Deb Williams, one of the writers And, of course, six mini plays from
and stars of Mom’s the Word and some of the most exciting artists
Mom’s the Word 2: Unhinged. and theatre companies in Victoria,
(Deb read an excerpt of this play commissioned by the Belfry,
during the 2010 SPARK Festival.) for the 2011 SPARK Festival.

Under the Influence, a new comedy,


comprised of three one-act plays,
by Vancouver-based playwright
Michele Riml, author of Rage,
which was presented during the
2009 SPARK Festival.

Deb Williams Charles Tidler Carmen Aguirre


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The Belfry Theatre is a national the best contemporary theatre, We are grateful to the thousands We invite you to join our growing
gem and a local treasure. 10 months of the year, showcasing of devoted subscribers and group of friends, believers and
For almost 35 years, we have national and international single-ticket buyers who fill our devotees – to name just a few of
showcased new plays, Canadian playwrights theatre night after night. Ensuring the giving opportunities available
classics, and the best contempo- over 80 actors, directors, designers, accessibility for as many members to you. Every dollar you donate
rary work from around the world, carpenters, props-makers, wardrobe of our community as possible makes a tremendous difference
in a heritage building that has staff, among others behind the is one of the Belfry’s core values. to the work we do.
transformed over the years into scenes – over one season We work very hard to keep our
one of Canada’s most beautiful – tickets reasonably priced, without
and intimate – cultural venues. innovative, cutting-edge shows jeopardizing the bottom line.
from across the country
in our annual SPARK Festival Ticket sales account for just over Wine Event
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development of new work This necessitates raising 45% a Wine Auction
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programs for established and fundraising. Government and
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corporate funding are important, to attend please
professional development but unpredictable,
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especially today. parties@belfry.bc.ca
and our Incubator project
and we will be
audience enrichment activities, happy to send you
such as the Re:actor series an invitation
of lectures and discussions, with full details.
and free play readings
Belfry 101, our signature educational
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