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Three very different plays in Vancouver for March

by Shawn Conner in Entertainment on March 7, 2013

Broken Sex Doll’s Paula Burrows. Photo credit: Emily Cooper.

Three plays running in Vancouver this March run a wide gamut of subjects and styles, from the political to an original sci-fi musical comedy to a gay domestic dramedy.

So if you’re in the mood for sexy robots, dialogue about monogamy, or personal recollections about living in China and working in the Alberta tar sands, Vancouver’s theatre scene has something for you this month.

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Three very different plays in Vancouver for March

Transgender Drama: The Silicone Diaries in Vancouver, thru Feb 25

by Remy Scalza in Entertainment on February 15, 2012

Nina Arsenault is a classic blonde bombshell. But she wasn’t always that way. Born in 1974 in an Ontario trailer park as Rodney Arsenault, Nina lived her life as a man until 1996, when she underwent the first of more then 60 surgeries to transform her into the perfect woman.

Arsenault relays the sometimes harrowing, sometimes inspiring story of her transformation in the one-act play The Silicone Diaries, appearing in February at the historic Cultch theatre. Her surgical odyssey spanned more than eight years of cosmetic operations, with medical bills totaling more than $150,000.

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Transgender Drama: The Silicone Diaries in Vancouver, thru Feb 25

Holiday Pantomime Plays: A British tradition alive in Vancouver

by Remy Scalza in Entertainment on December 13, 2010

OK – For all you theatre buffs out there, please don’t laugh at my ignorance. I was looking through the Vancouver Sun’s holiday round-up yesterday and saw a whole section on pantomime plays in Vancouver. I thought to myself, “Wow, I didn’t know that mimes were still so popular.”

Well, it turns out that pantomime plays have nothing to do with mimes (i.e. the guys in white make-up who can’t talk and always seem like they’re stuck inside a glass box). Pantomime is actually a venerable British holiday theatre tradition. Contrary to my misperceptions, pantomime actors can talk – They even sing and dance.

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Holiday Pantomime Plays: A British tradition alive in Vancouver

Three very different plays in Vancouver for March

Transgender Drama: The Silicone Diaries in Vancouver, thru Feb 25

Holiday Pantomime Plays: A British tradition alive in Vancouver

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