Production Series
The Sunset Theatre also produces full productions that spring out of our Exploration Series,
as well as existing plays – produced in-house – featuring local and guest artists from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. As with our 2020 Presentation Series, our planned 2020 Production Series was put on hold. We will post updates as soon as we have confirmed new dates for the Productions.
Past Productions
Breastless
Premiere 2019
Written & performed by Emma Jarrett
Direction and dramaturgy by Danette Boucher
Lighting design by Maggie Lees
After a, 18 month development phase in 2018-19, Emma Jarrett’s one-woman play debuted in October 2019. Breastless is a sometimes humorous, often thoughtful and quizzical rollercoaster ride of emotion, and an honest portrayal of being at the mercy of modern medicine, saved by the care of other practitioners and buoyed up by loved ones.
This intimate, unflinching glimpse into the ravages of a cancer diagnosis will make you laugh, think, and feel.
The Drum is Calling You Home
Premiere 2018
2021 - Invited to Quesnel Live Arts, Dates TBC
Written by Marcel Gagnon
Directed by Karen Jeffery
Set & Lighting Design by Hans Saefkow
Performances by Marcel Gagnon & Aaron M. Wells
Developed over a couple of seasons through the Exploration Series, this autobiographical play by Lheidli T’enneh Nation Elder Marcel Gagnon mixes performance and music with traditional ceremonial elements.
The world premiere of The Drum is Calling You Home took place at the Sunset Theatre in 2018.
Production and Touring Information can be found here
17
2017
Written by Morag Northey
Directed by Dirk Van Stralen
Dramaturgy by Eugene Stickland & Michaela Jeffery
Performances by Morag Northey & Eugene Stickland Lighting by Gerald King
Morag Northey developed her play 17 through the Sunset Theatre’s Exploration Series during a five year period that included: artist retreats, a compilation of writings, musings and songs; dramaturgy with playwright and dramaturg Michaela Jeffery and public readings with the final script being birthed under the dramaturgy of award-winning playwright Eugene Stickland during the Sunset Theatre’s 2016 summer season.
For more information on 17 click here
Godhead
2015
Written by Michaela Jeffery
Directed by Tim Sutherland
Dramaturgy by Brian Drader
Performances by Devin MacKinnon, Andrew Hamilton & Michelle Lieffertz
Lighting design by Dave Jeffery
Developed at the Sunset Theatre. World premiere in 2015.
A backwoods televangelist. A bull rider. A secret exorcism.
“This explosively powerful new work by award winning emerging Canadian playwright Michaela Jeffery marries the wild charisma of the iconic West with the visceral allure of contemporary fanatical evangelism in snake churches of the deep south.”