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The Five Vengeances is a badass play

By: C Icart, Staff Writer The Five Vengeances (T5V) is an action-packed play by Affair of Honor, a “fight and movement based theatre company” at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. The production combines the work of playwright, Jovanni Sy and multimedia design collective, Chimerik 似不像. ​​It’s a stunning reimagination of the Jacobean revenge tragedy genre, which, in the Jacobean period in England (1603–1625), depicted bloody portrayals of violence and murder in the name of revenge. As a queer theatre kid, you didn’t have to ask me twice if I wanted to see a play about a queer love story.…

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