1675 Discovery Street,
Vancouver, B.C. V6R 4K5
Friends of Jericho Arts Centre
Board of Directors
Chairman: Adam Henderson
778 883 2241
in the park by the beach
1675 Discovery Street,
Vancouver, B.C. V6R 4K5
Friends of Jericho Arts Centre
Board of Directors
Chairman: Adam Henderson
778 883 2241
1675 Discovery Street,
Vancouver, B.C. V6R 4K5
Friends of Jericho Arts Centre
Board of Directors
Chairman: Adam Henderson
778 883 2241
Face masks are recommended but optional.
June 30, 2022 - July 10, 2022
A ROCK OPERA!
Stage Play by Martin T. Adam
Directed by Chris Humphreys
Music by Marc Atkinson and Martin T. Adam
Musical Direction by Scott White
What the Buddha Never Taught is a musical celebration of the western encounter with Buddhism. Based on the book by Tim Ward, our story is set in a fictional international monastery populated by an assortment of western practitioners. The play takes audiences on a high-spirited musical ride through uncharted philosophical and spiritual waters. Eastern and western horizons fuse and open into silence.
A suspicious suicide greets an idealistic Canadian philosophy student upon arrival at an international Buddhist monastery, upsetting his plans for a life of quiet meditation. Intimations of murder, romance, and religious fascism wreak havoc in the young seeker’s mind as illusions are shattered and enlightenment achieved.
For more information about the production, and all the tunes, visit the website:
whatthebuddhanevertaughtmusical.com
TICKETS ARE $30 with Pay What You Can on Wednesday June 29th at the door
Pay what you can Preview Wednesday June 29th at the door.
Show runs June 30th – July 9th at 7.30pm with Sunday Matinees at 2pm July 3rd and 10th. (No show on Mondays and no evening show Sunday July 10th.)
September 8, 2022 - October 2, 2022
August 1970, La Grange, NC – population 5,000. Three generations of women have gathered for cards, refreshments and conversation. They have years of stories and opinions, but this Thursday night there’s something new: desegregation has come to La Grange public schools. The black housekeeper, Margaret, has been an important part in all their lives for years as a largely silent witness, but all that may be about to change…
November 10, 2022 - December 4, 2022
Denmark’s Prince Hamlet is back at university and finds himself in the centre of a debate between two of his professors, the aggressively spiritual Martin Luther and the lewdly logical John Faustus. Davalos’s 21st-century comedy explores the issues of faith and skepticism with a wickedly modern sense of humour in this prequel to both Hamlet and Doctor Faustus.
“A brilliant pastiche of fact, fiction, genius and legend.”
January 19, 2023 - February 12, 2023
Canada, 1915. This play centres around the true story of the first woman who was sentenced to hang in Alberta for a crime that, when a similar one was committed by a man, was seen as “defending the decency of his home”. A frank and scrutinizing look at marriage, manners, money and murder.
March 23, 2023 - April 16, 2023
Mesmerizing, enigmatic, destructive, Hedda Gabler is one of the theatre’s most infamous characters. Returning from her honeymoon, already bored with her marriage, Hedda finds herself caught between the brilliant but dissolute Ejlert Lovborg and the clutches of the predatory Judge Brack. As a shocking path of destruction unfolds, there can be only one outcome…
June 1, 2023 - June 25, 2023
Feydeau’s classic farce involving a complex series of mistaken identities, clandestine assignations and misplaced but explosive jealousies, all happening at breakneck speed. The update by
Ives into the twentieth century serves to heighten the sexual allusions which make the play so hilarious.