UBC Theatre and Film announces 2024-25 season
Three of the city’s most respected directors to helm The Very Book Indeed, The Arsonists, and The Last of the Pelican Daughters
Moya O’Connell.
UBC THEATRE AND Film has just announced its 2024-25 season, featuring a trio of works helmed by three of the city’s most respected directors.
Kicking off the season from November 20 to 30 at the Frederic Wood Theatre is The Very Book Indeed, a historical comedy written by SFU English professor Paul Budra. Directed by Moya O’Connell, the play delves into the printing of Shakespeare’s first folio in 1621, with scenes from Shakespearean classics such as As You Like It, Macbeth, and King Lear. O’Connell is a UBC alumna, having earned her master’s of fine arts in directing from the university.
Stephen Heatley.
Fay Nass.
Up next is The Arsonists by Max Frisch, a political satire that looks at the rise of Nazism and Communism and the cost of complacency. Running January 29 to February 8, 2025 in the Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, it will be directed by former department head Stephen Heatley in his last role before retirement. Heatley held the role of department head from 2015 to 2023. He teaches acting and directing and is the departmental liaison for playwrighting. During 12 seasons with Edmonton’s Theatre Network, he directed more than 30 world premieres.
Finally, The Last of the Pelican Daughters takes place March 19 to 29, 2025 at the Frederic Wood Theatre. The darkly comical family drama about inheritance, loss, and sisterly solidarity by U.K.–based collective The Wardrobe Ensemble will be directed by Fay Nass, the artistic director of the frank theatre company and founder and artistic director of Aphotic Theatre. 
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