Letters from Lithuania
Directed by
Peter Hall and Joanna Garfinkel
Written by Nicola Harwood
Original Concept by Bessie Wapp
August 21-31, 2008, 7:30 pm
Stanley Park Miniature Train, Vancouver
Letters From Lithuania is an outdoor, site specific interdisciplinary performance about family history and displacement, set aboard the miniature train in Stanley Park. Letters From Lithuania combines Mortal Coil's grand scale of theatre with the Eastern European musical repertoire of vocal ensemble Zeelia.
In this production, the audience travels by train and by foot through a surreal forest of secrets and memories. Through theatre, song cycle, puppetry and stilt work, the show unfolds the remarkable true story of how one man’s fear kept news of survivors of World War II sealed in envelopes and unread for 20 years, and what eventually transpires to reunite the family.
Not suitable for children under 12
Tickets now on sale through
www.ticketstonight.ca
or by phone: 604-684-2787
Thursday, August 21: PWYC
(tickets at train site only)
Friday, August 22: SOLD OUT
Tuesday, August 26 (2 for 1)
(tickets at train site only)
SHOW UPDATE: August 30 and 31:
There are a limited number of tickets available at the site box office. So come on down and take your chances at a ride on the most fascinating train ride you've ever had!
The Stanley Park Miniature Train is readily accessible by TransLink (on the #19 bus) and there is LIMITED event parking next to the site. When you enter Stanley Park off Georgia Street, go straight ahead up Pipeline Road (don't turn right under the overpass), and turn right at the signs for the train.
For more information, contact
Mortal Coil Performance Society
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