Firehall Arts Centre adds two-hander Mary’s Wedding to its season
Announcement follows postponement of this week’s FADO– The Saddest Music in the World
Watch for FADO– The Saddest Music in the World in fall 2022 at the Firehall.
THE FIREHALL ARTS Centre has made Canadian playwright Stephen Massicotte’s Mary’s Wedding a last-minute addition to its 2021-22 Reunion Season. The two-hander will run February 25 to March 13.
In a unique pandemic-savvy approach, director Donna Spencer has cast two teams of performers: Sarah Roa and Tanner Zerr; and Emma Ross and Jacob Leonard.
The news follows the postponement of the seven-performer musical FADO – The Saddest Music in the World, which was to take place January 27 to February 20. FADO has been postponed to Fall 2022.
Winner of the Alberta Literary Award for Drama, the Alberta Playwriting Competition, and the Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play, Mary’s Wedding is a story of love and survival amid hope, regret, memory, and dreams. Set in 1914, it focuses on young Mary and Charlie, who unexpectedly take shelter in a barn during a thunderstorm.
“In making the difficult decision to postpone FADO - The Saddest Music in the World until next season, I sought to find a smaller-cast play that I knew would touch audiences’ hearts with similar passion, humour, and loss that Elaine Ávila’s FADO holds,” Spencer, who is also the Firehall Arts Centre’s artistic producer, said in the press announcement today. “Mary’s Wedding came to mind immediately, given its beautifully poetic words and its exploration of love, hope, and resilience.
In choosing this play, I felt it best to cast this work with two teams of actors to provide more opportunities for Vancouver’s many talented young professional performers to share their skills during these COVID times through the telling of this classic Canadian work," she added.
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