A world premiere, Indigenous satire and musical, and more as The Cultch presents four March offerings
Tickets are now on sale for Little Red Warrior & His Lawyer, How to Disappear Completely, Children of God, and Beauty and The Beast: My Life
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(Clockwise from top left) Little Red Warrior & His Lawyer (Trudie Lee photo), How to Disappear Completely (The Chop Theatre photo), Beauty and The Beast: My Life (Tim Matheson photo), and Children of God (Matt Barnes photo).
This March at The Cultch, four powerful plays by leading Vancouver theatre companies are hitting the stage: Little Red Warrior & His Lawyer, How to Disappear Completely, Children of God, and Beauty and The Beast: My Life. Tickets are now on sale for all performances starting from $29.
At the York Theatre from March 6 to 16, The Cultch will present Little Red Warrior & His Lawyer by director and Governor General’s Award–winning playwright Kevin Loring of the Nlaka’pamux Nation, a co-production from Savage Society and Belfry Theatre in association with NAC Indigenous Theatre and Theatre Calgary.
This modern trickster story lampoons everything from colonialism and condo developments to the courts, the crown, and—of course—lawyers. It follows Little Red Warrior, the last remaining member of the Little Red Warrior First Nation, who discovers construction has begun on his ancestral lands. The events that ensue offer satirical reflections on power and politics.
(From left) Gordon Patrick White, Luisa Jojic, and Shekhar Paleja in Little Red Warrior & His Lawyer. Photo by Trudie Lee
Over at the Historic Theatre from March 15 to 22, The Cultch will present The Chop Theatre production How to Disappear Completely in collaboration with The Elbow Theatre. Created by Vancouver-based lighting designer Itai Erdal with James Long, Anita Rochon, and Emelia Symington Fedy, How to Disappear Completely is deeply profound and surprisingly funny.
In September 2000, Erdal received a phone call from Israel telling him his mother had nine months to live. He promptly travelled to Jerusalem to be with her, during which time he shot hours of film and hundreds of pictures, documenting the final nine months of his mother’s life.
Itai Erdal in How to Disappear Completely. Photo courtesy The Chop Theatre
Later in the month, Corey Payette’s Children of God will return to the York Theatre from March 21 to 29, presented by The Cultch and produced by Urban Ink. Children of God is a musical about an Oji-Cree family whose children were taken away to a residential school in Northern Ontario. The story of Rita, a mother who was never let past the school’s gate, and her kids Tom and Julia, who never knew she came, pushes toward redemption.
Children of God offers a blend of ancient traditions and contemporary realities, celebrating resilience and the power of the Indigenous cultural spirit. Inspired by First Nations music, the moving score by BC Reconciliation Award–winner Payette also includes echoes of provocative Broadway masterpieces such as Fun Home and Next to Normal.
Children of God. Photo by Emily Cooper
The Cultch’s programming for the month will wrap up with Niall McNeil’s Beauty and The Beast: My Life at the Historic Theatre from March 28 to April 6. With this world premiere, McNeil—who identifies as an artist with Down Syndrome—is making his directorial debut. Part fantasy and part reality with huge dollops of whimsy, the production transports audiences into a vibrant realm that references Disney and Cocteau while exploring McNeil’s experiences and multifaceted art practice.
McNeil has assembled an incredible team of collaborators and performers, including Veda Hille, Billy Marchenski, Sophia Wolfe, Kate Franklin, and Peter Anderson, who have all come together to centre his unique approach to art-making.
To purchase tickets and learn more, head to The Cultch.
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Niall McNeil in Beauty and The Beast: My Life. Photo by Tim Matheson
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