Other Women
September 10 – 18, 1999
Having cheated on her white husband with an Asian man, a half-Chinese woman flees to the vacant home of her grandparents Wong.
Current Shows & Events
Restless Prayers
January, 1999
Artistic Associate Chris Gerrard-Pinker collaborates with performers Karen Bennedsen, Kairn Lechner and Daniel Wild and musicians Lori Freedman, Andreas Kahre and Tiina Kiik on a new work of dancetheatre. Restless Prayers is a fugue-like series of interconnected meditations on fate, sacrifice and innocence lost. A workshop presentation in collaboration with Toronto’s Theatre Centre.
War of the Worlds
November 26 to December 5
a multi-media spectacle which explores the circumstantial meeting of three characters
Blueprints for Disaster
a showcase of new work by recent grads of Studio 58
I Am Your Spy (a day in the life of Mordechai Vanunu)
April 2000
This one man show depicts Vanunu’s isolation and anguish, and his struggle between hope and pessimism, for himself, and for humankind.
Three in the Back, Two in the Head
November 2 – 18, 2000
The life – and death – of Canadian ballistics innovator Gerald Bull, inventor of the “supergun”.
Under Wraps: A Spoke Opera
January 25 – 29, 2000
Under Wraps, an original work by Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, is, on the surface, a story of unrequited love between a gay man and his straight best friend. That’s on the surface. But what about the sixteen-person chorus under a huge sheet of parachute cloth? This shape-shifting chorus functions as set, musical accompaniment, and as … Read more Under Wraps: A Spoke Opera
Foreign Bodies
September 5 – 16, 2001
Fiction wrestles with history, sexuality collides with cultural politics, and nations struggle for power in the story of one couple’s jockeying for position on their west-coast futon.
Hotel
February 1, 2001
The House of Pootsie Plunket
February 20 – 24, 2001
“[a] fierce and angry play, a diatribe against the destruction of a nation.” – Peter Birnie, Vancouver Sun Part Greek tragedy, part black (Canuck) comedy, Vancouverites readily appreciated an allegory of the struggle to preserve cultural identity from the onslaught of our neighbours to the South. Catalyst’s production won a prestigious Edinburgh Fringe First in … Read more The House of Pootsie Plunket
Burning Vision
April 23 – May 11, 2002
Both tragic and irreverent, Burning Vision weighs the burdens of our ancestors as they travel through time, across continents and in our genes to cast shadows on the present.
Silent Summer Nights
August 30 – September 1, 2002
A Labour Day weekend free-of-charge homage to the best in silent (and not-so-silent) cinema.
PuSh International Performance Series
January 14 - April 5, 2002
A collection of brave new works from Canada and beyond.
Silent Summer Nights
August 29 – 31, 2003
The 3rd annual Silent Summer Nights featured three fantastic evenings of the best in silent (and not so silent) film.
The Young & The Restless: Then She
April 15 – 26, 2003
The story of a husband and wife who must come to grips with the disappearance and possible murder of their daughter
The Young & The Restless: Snowman
April 15 – 26, 2003
Snowman is a darkly comic journey into a frozen, emotionally-barren landscape of ice and snow.
PuSh International Performing Arts Festival
January 14 – 31, 2004
The second year of Rumble Productions/Touchstone Theatre’s PuSh International Performance Series featured four exciting contemporary works from Canada and abroad. MAINSTAGE PRESENTATIONS: K. Kaleidoskop Theatre (Copenhagen) Written/directed by Martin Tulinius January 14 – 24 Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC Winner of Denmark’s most prestigious theatre award, K. is a passionate and humanist portrayal of Franz Kafka, one of … Read more PuSh International Performing Arts Festival