Halifax’s 2b theatre company returns to Vancouver with hit show Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
Genre-bending sensation Ben Caplan and Governor General’s Award-winning playwright Hannah Moscovitch tell a true story about the refugee experience
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Ben Caplan, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story. Photo by Fadi Acra/2b theatre company
Internationally acclaimed 2b theatre company is coming to Simon Fraser University with Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story. The rollicking music-theatre hybrid runs for a limited 10-performance engagement from November 30 until December 11 at SFU Woodward’s.
2b joins forces with genre-bending sensation Ben Caplan and Governor General’s Award-winning playwright Hannah Moscovitch to tell a true story about the refugee experience.
Tickets for this not-to-be-missed experience are now on sale here.
This international hit is about how to love after being broken by the horrors of war. It's about refugees who get out before it's too late and those who get out after it's too late. And it's about looking into the eyes of God.
A raw, unexpected, and bewitching production, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story is a humourously dark folk tale woven together with a high-energy concert. This sumptuous Klezmer/folk music/theatre hybrid is based on the true stories of two Jewish Romanian refugees coming to Canada in 1908. After losing everything, Chaim and Chaya have been given a second chance in the New World. It’s about how to love and find our shared humanity after facing the horrors of war.
Having premiered to great success in Halifax in 2017, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story has won numerous accolades around the world. In addition to its cross-Canada tour, this one-of-a-kind production garnered awards and recognition when it played at the prestigious Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Off-Broadway in New York City. It has toured to 30 cities in six countries including Canada, England, Scotland, the Netherlands, the USA, and Australia and performed over 300 shows.
Ben Caplan, Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story. Photo by Stoo Metz Photography
Moscovitch has written Other People's Children, This Is War, and What a Young Wife Ought to Know. She has won many awards, including the prestigious international Windham-Campbell Prize administered by the Beinecke Library at Yale University and the Trillium Book Award (the only playwright to win in the award’s 30-year history to do so).
Caplan pulls double duty as co-songwriter and as the play’s narrator, The Wanderer. He has released three albums to critical acclaim, including his latest: a companion piece to this production titled Old Stock.
Christian Barry wears many hats in this production including director, co-set/lighting/sound designer, as well as co-songwriter. He is an award-winning director, dramaturge, actor, writer, and designer from Halifax and a founding member and artistic co-director of 2b theatre company.
2b theatre company is celebrated as a driving artistic voice that creates vital theatre for the world stage. They have presented their work on five continents and in 13 countries and 65 cities, from and Toronto to Tasmania, and have won awards and accolades the world over.
SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs proudly celebrate 10 years.
For tickets and more information, see here. Sales of $45 Early Bird General Admission tickets end on June 15.
To attend the opening night GALA on November 30, see here.
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