Plays
Beyond Eden
Jan 16 - Feb 6
World Premiere, Musical Spectacle!
By Bruce Ruddell
Directed by Dennis Garnhum
Music direction by Bill Henderson
Music by Bruce Ruddell and Bill Henderson
Choreographer Jacques Lemay
Fight Director Jean-Pierre Fournier
A co-production with THEATRE CALGARY
Presented with Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad
Cast:
John Mann as Lewis Wilson
Tom Jackson as The Watchman
Julian Black Antelope as Chorus Male
Meegwun Fairbrother as Chorus Male
Christopher Hunt as Gregory
Telly James as Joe Duncan
Andrew Kushnir as Jack Wilson
Jennifer Lines as Sal Wilson
Cameron MacDuffee as Max Thomson
Curt McKinstry as Clive
Tracey Olsen as Victor Duncan
Corey Payette as Chorus Male
Raven Ann Potschka as Chorus Female
Erika Raelene Stocker as Chorus Female
Production:
Bretta Gerecke - Set and Costume Design
Kevin Lamotte, Alan Brodie - Lighting Design
Jamie Nesbitt - Projection Design
Chris Jacko - Sound Design
Michael Rinaldi - Soundscape Design
Shari Wattling - Production Dramaturg
Gwaai Edenshaw - Haida Visual Arts
Rick Rinder - Stage Manager
Stacey Kotlar - Assistant Stage Manager
Gillian Pinckney - Apprentice Stage Manager
Presented by:
Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad
Audience Advisory: water-based fog is used during this production.
LATEST REVIEWS...
A NINE-DAY FACEBOOK FAN CONTEST: WIN TWO FREE TICKETS TO BEYOND EDEN EVERYDAY FOR NINE DAYS!
Playhouse PERK: 20% discount on admission to the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art when you present your Playhouse, Beyond Eden, admission ticket. Groups of 10+ receive the 20% discount PLUS one complimentary guided tour of the Bill Reid Gallery! Valid until Mar. 28, 2010.
READ: Composer's 30-year journey led to Beyond Eden
READ Dennis Garnhum's Queen Charlotte Islands Travel story from the Calgary Herald
READ about Bill Reid
WATCH historical CBC videos on The Life and Legend of Bill Reid, 1954 - 2002, inspired by the controversial 1957 expedition by Bill Reid and Wilson Duff to Haida Gwaii. click here.
LISTEN to the title track from Beyond Eden, performed by John Mann:
In the abandoned Haida village of Ninstints stand totem poles. They have stood there for decades. Lewis Wilson and his long-time friend and colleague Max Tomson are on an expedition to rescue these totem poles and save them from their waterlogged, beetle-infested and fragile condition.More
