IN A WORLD CREATED
BY A DRUNKEN GOD
by Drew Hayden Taylor
October 12-22, 2011
EPCOR CENTRE's Motel
CALGARY PREMIERE
A co-production with
A powerful drama by one
of Canada’s leading
First Nations playwrights.
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GOOD FENCES
by the Downstage
Creation Ensemble
February 14-March 4, 2012
Big Secret Theatre
WORLD PREMIERE
Part of Alberta Theatre Projects' Enbridge playRites Festival
of New Canadian Plays
A brand new show from the creators of the award-winning
In the Wake. |
SIA
by Matthew MacKenzie
April 11-21, 2012
EPCOR CENTRE's Motel
WESTERN CANADIAN PREMIERE
2010 Grand Prize Winner of the
Alberta Playwrights Network's
Alberta Playwriting Competition
A riveting new play from one
of Canada's most exciting
young playwrights.
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Downstage proudly presents
the Western Canadian Premiere of
SIA
by Matthew MacKenzie
April 11 - 14 & 17 - 21, 2012
8 pm nightly with a 2 pm matinee April 21st
2 for $20 Preview - Wednesday, April 11th
EPCOR CENTRE’s Motel
Regular tickets $15-$25, call (403) 294-9494 or
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE ONLINE
Nick, a Canadian university student, decides to spend his summer volunteering in a Liberian refugee
camp in Ghana. But the Lonely Planet guidebook doesn't prepare you for nightmare scenarios. When
Nick befriends a former child soldier, Abraham, he is taken hostage in a desperate bid to stop a war
crimes trial from proceeding in the Hague.
Inspired by interviews that playwright Matthew MacKenzie conducted during two trips to the Buduburam
refugee camp in 2004 and 2007, SIA tackles the challenging relationship between North America and
West Africa through a carefully woven story of hope and atrocity.
This riveting new play from one of Canada's most exciting young playwrights was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2010 Alberta Playwriting
Competition (sponsored by Alberta Playwrights Network), where the jury praised this engrossing and heartbreaking play for being "honest, hard-hitting and on the mark".
Click here to read an article in the Calgary Herald about playwright Matthew MacKenzie and a workshop production of SIA by New York’s Bridge Theatre Company.
"Masterful; an intelligent, well constructed tale that entertains while reminding us that issues in the developing world are rarely as black and white as they sometimes seem." - Eye Weekly
"[A] smart, gripping drama that explores the complex grey of people and politics." - Now Toronto
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