High schooler May Lee (16-year-old Avy Crowchild) is sent back in time to October 1970 to study the FLQ Crisis & the War Measures Act. She meets a singing, dancing Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (bilingual Adam Olgui, 2015 graduate, Capilano University Musical Theatre, currently featured in Bull at the Rumble Theatre Tremors Festival), and some 1970 characters including Lui the high school football star, a little girl named JK visiting from England who thinks she’s a witch, and the Man in Black, head of Trudeau’s security, (played by Vancouver Crown Prosecutor Mark Wolf, star of Touchstone and Carousel Theatre’s 2016 production of Hairspray). When she returns to 2016, May finds there’s a new Trudeau in town (Justin clone Rowan Jang).
Original music directed & performed by Cale Plut, SFU Music Master’s student, Brendan Steele of Red Haven, and others. Dance choreography by Kim Ma. Inspired by the true story of a BC high school teacher fired in October 1970 for daring to criticize the War Measures Act.
Dates:
Sept. 9 (Friday) 7:15 PM (half-price night)
Sept. 10 (Saturday) 5:45 PM
Sept. 11 (Sunday) 9:45 PM
Sept. 14 (Wednesday) 5:00 PM
Sept. 16 (Friday) 9:00 PM
Sept. 18 (Sunday) 2:00 PM
Censor's Warning: Comedy, singing, dancing and disrespect for authority.
