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This season, Electric Company invites you to come All The Way Home for an intimate, unplugged experience where you will share the stage of the Queen Elizabeth Theatre with some of Vancouver’s most celebrated talent.
Kim Collier, winner of the 2010 Siminovitch Prize in Theatre for direction, creates an extremely personal and close-up experience as she re-envisions Tad Mosel’s 1961 Pulitzer Prize-winning play as an immersive encounter where the audience, from within the world of the play, witnesses the gorgeously crafted journey of spiritual transformation.
All The Way Home tells a profoundly moving story of a family’s discovery of hope in the face of unspeakable loss. This production sees the story relocated from its original setting in Tennessee to World War I era interior British Columbia, where an extended family is shaken to its core with the untimely and accidental death of one its own.
In an experience unique to most, the audience will enter the Queen Elizabeth Theatre from the stage doors and walk into the set from the wings. Sitting among the action within the various rooms of the family’s home, on the lawn outside, or along the dusty road that travels by, the narrative surrounds the viewer from all sides, providing an uncommonly personal encounter with the story and the performers.
Starring Meg Roe, Jonathon Young, Haig Sutherland, Julia Mackey, Tom Macbeath, Gabrielle Rose, Nicola Lipman, Donna White, Alessandro Juliani, George Young, and featuring a young actor named Jordan Wessels. The play is designed by Adrian Muir (lights), Marshall McMahen (set), Christine Reimer (costumes), Alessandro Juliani (music and vocal arrangements). The stage manager is Jaimie Tait and the apprentice stage manager is Stacy Sherlock.
Currently an associate artist with Toronto’s Canadian Stage, Electric Company co-founder Kim Collier has become a leading voice in Canadian theatre and one of the country’s most undeniably inspired directors. With All The Way Home Electric Company follows up last year’s spectacular film/theatre hybrid Tear the Curtain with Collier’s daring vision of an unplugged celebration of the power of the unmediated performance.
The short run and limited capacity provides an exclusive event for a lucky few. Book early!
All The Way Home by Tad Mosel
Produced by Electric Company Theatre in association with the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company
January 10 - 14, 2012
8pm with additional Matinee Performances on January 13 and 14
Tickets: from $30, $20 preview Jan 10
Register now for tickets at www.electriccompanytheatre.com
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