COVID forces The Cultch to postpone Bad Parent to 2022-23 season
The much-anticipated world premiere by Ins Choi was scheduled to open April 21
Raugi Yu and Josette Jorge in Bad Parent, now postponed to next season. Photo by Emily Cooper
IN WHAT IS a sign of the uncertainty still plaguing the performing arts during sixth-wave COVID, The Cultch has had to postpone a much-anticipated premiere to next weason.
Today the company and Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre announced that Bad Parent, by celebrated Kim’s Convenience writer Ins Choi, would not open as planned April 21 due to “a Covid-19 situation that has arisen”.
In a joint statement released this afternoon, Derek Chan, managing artistic director of vAct and Heather Redfern, executive director of The Cultch said: “Please know that this decision did not come easily, as the vAct, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Soulpepper Theatre, and Cultch teams have been working tirelessly to bring this beautifully crafted story of love and connection to life so that we can share it with you all. We would like to encourage you to hang on to your tickets and stay tuned for the new show dates. Thank you for all your support.”
“Opening a play is kinda like taking your child to kindergarten for the first time,” Choi added to the statement today. “You’re nervous cuz you know it, love it, and birthed it, but will they like it? Will they see in it what you see? Love what you love about it? Vancouver was where my journey with this play began and I was super excited to premiere it here with vAct and this stellar team of artists. Making and presenting art is so uncertain in these times. We’ll be back.”
The Cultch is encouraging patrons to hold on to their tickets and stay tuned for the new show dates of Bad Parent in the next 2022-23 season. Alternatively, guests can request that their tickets to be moved to The Cultch’s next production, Catalyst Theatre’s The Invisible: Agents of Ungentlemanly Warfare, April 29 to May 7 at the York. You can reach out to boxoffice@thecultch.com or call 604-251-1363 for other options, such as credit on account, gift certificate, donation,or refund
The comedy was to have starred actors Raugi Yu and Josette Jorge as two parents coping with a toddler and navigative their own relationship and identities amid stress and sleepless nights.
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