Managing Artistic Director Caleb Marshall Director of Education & Programming Heather Burns The sky rained steel, a hail of bolts, buckets, & acetyline tanks. adapted from the book of poetry by Gary Geddes adapted for the stage and directed by Christopher Weddell Managing Artistic Director Caleb Marshall Interim Director of Education Alana Hibbert FALSEWORK
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Managing Artistic Director Caleb MarshallDirector of Education & Programming Heather Burns
The sky rained steel, a hail of bolts, buckets, & acetyline tanks.
adapted from the book of poetry by Gary Geddesadapted for the stage and directed by Christopher Weddell
Managing Artistic Director Caleb MarshallInterim Director of Education Alana Hibbert
FALSEWORK
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Since March, we have all had to forge a way forward. Our work changed overnight, and we could look back at our own naivete in the ‘before time’ with a longing nostalgia. Perhaps once in a generation there is an event that so deeply impacts the very nature of life on this planet that it becomes their defining moment.
As a society we have had to forge a way forward. As educators we have had to forge a way forward, as education is essential to our future. As live performers, we are working to forge a way forward in an industry that was the first to close and will be the last to fully return; and yet ‘live performance’ is so crucial and necessary to expressing our very soul and the struggles we confront.
Our season theme is not rebuilding or reshaping our world. That sounds too easy. It is also not simply “time to start over” or “the dawn of something new”, as if it’s all happening whether we choose to participate or not. No, it’s forging a way forward, because it is hard work. It’s as hard as bending metal and will put the full strength of our human endurance to the test.
The choices we make now, how we choose to stay safe and yet forge ahead, will define us for decades. Our choices will determine if the next generation is prepared to lead when their time comes. They need education, art and expression, and we need stories told that both inspire and motivate, while reflecting our reality and choices back to us.
This season takes us from familiar isolation and frustration to disobedience, the emergence of free-will and self-determination, and ultimately, for all our characters – and all of us.... the need to adapt.
We look forward to exploring these themes with you this year. In-person or from a distance, the power of storytelling is not diminished.
Caleb MarshallManaging Artistic Director
From the College Directors
From the College DirectorsWelcome to our Year II plays. We are so pleased and proud to be sharing these productions with you as we enter the back half of our school year.
As a recent arrival to the college with deep roots at CCPA, I have had the unique pleasure of joining this exceptional company at the mid-point of their project to “forge a way forward.” What a privilege it is to be collaborating live and in-person in the theatre, and to witness the countless new ways our students have found of learning, working and creating in this challenging, ever-shifting environment!
The capacity to adapt, to pivot in the moment towards something new, is a foundational lesson in theatre education. Thank you for your continued support and interest in the important stories that our students have invested such time, energy and passion in telling and for adapting and pivoting in the moment right alongside us.
Alana HibbertInterim Director of Education
And what does a bridge gather to itself, if not earth and sky? - Martin Heidegger
On June 17, 1958, Vancouver’s Second Narrows Bridge collapsed in mid construction. 79 workers were flung 100 feet into the water, amid a mass of tangled steel. Eighteen men died. It remains the worst industrial accident in Vancouver history.
Each day some 140,000 vehicles cross the bridge that replaced the fallen structure. How many commuters consider the deadly cost of building the bridge? How many ponder the sacrifice and daring of the builders?
Gary Geddes’s poem suite is an intimate scrapbook of the tragedy, a gritty and moving ode to the intrepid workers and their families.
There is also a whodunnit at the core of this true life story. Who was responsible for the collapse? Was it worker error, or the sloppy math of a green engineer? Or did the company try to cut corners with unsound steel? Human error, the papers called it. Which human, we want to know?
Shortly before Pops dies in the collapse, his daughter Marie confides, “A bridge is a metaphor, meaning to transfer, to bear across. It is also a metaphor for striving: two sides - labor and big business, child & parent, human and human - struggling to close a gap and come together.”
When that striving fails, something ineffably precious is lost.
In this time of distance, the themes of Falsework are deeply relevant.
From the Director
A graduate of the Playhouse Acting School, Christopher has played on stages in Europe and Canada. He is a founding member and past Artistic Associate of Bard On The Beach. Weddell has written several plays, including the hit adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels for Kaleidoscope Theatre. This year, Weddell is creating the libretto for a musical version of W.O. Mitchell’s Who Has Seen The Wind.
In 2005, Christopher received the Edmund Kean Sword Award from Bard On The Beach for lifetime achievement. He has been nominated for various awards, including a nod for Outstanding Direction for Richard II. In 2017 & 2019, he received 2 NCRA awards for sound design & production. Weddell has taught at the Canadian College Of Performing Arts since 2000.
Christopher Weddell
The Canadian College of Performing Arts presents
Elizabeth Fehr Natasha GlassJaren GuerreiroMadeline Jane Hannah Kinch Mackenzie LangdonGrace MartinAbby McCallumGreg MurdochTiffany OudAdrian PalekHailey SabourinJosie SchmalzTyler SpencerEilidh Tew
‘Stewie’, Nun, Marina’s Husband, Background in ViennaKatie, Steelworker
John Mckibbin, Erich, Marceau, Rescue Worker, Mac’s FatherAlice, Manon, Mitzi
‘Stormin’ Norman AtkinsonLou Lessard, Barbara Mckibbin, Mitzi
Herta, Mcfoo ‘Panicky’ Bill Stroud, Ginger 42
Gareth, AlexanderMarie, Steelworker
Mac, Jack, PopsDelia (the consultant), Angelica, Doyle
Eve, Rae-anneGary Poirier, Background in Vienna
Marina Cave Waiter, Classmate, Rescue Worker
Falsework is approximately 1 hour and 55 minutes in length, with a 15-minute intermission.
FALSEWORKadapted from the book of poetry by Gary Geddes
adapted for the stage by Christopher Weddell
Content Advisorystrong language, grief, and loud noises
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Naomi Lorenzo
Tyler Spencer
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At Carlton House, we want you to live in welcoming surroundings that make you happy from morning until night. Our goal is to help you stay active, support your health, and foster the joy of living in a caring place. Enjoy life in the nicest setting, in the best location of any senior’s residence in Greater Victoria here at Carlton House.
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