Pedro Chamale

Actress Sarah Roa, dressed like a 1960s housewife, stands on stage in front of a kitchen table looking down at her hands. Pink and yellow flowers sprout up in the foreground.
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Upcoming local production bad eggs explores women’s agency across mythologies

Peak Web March 9, 2022

By:  Luke Faulks, Staff Writer Following a staged reading in 2019, SFU alum and playwright Jessica Hood is bringing her first full-length play, bad eggs, to your screens as an online film-theatre hybrid. The play tells the story of partners Persephone and Hades, who, after unsuccessfully trying to have a baby, visit a fertility doctor. The doctor, Eve, is also Persephone’s mother. After a panic attack, Persephone sets out to discover who she really is, beyond a wife and mother.  Initially intended to be a live theatre piece, the pandemic turned bad eggs into a virtual mixed media project. It’s…

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“Made in Canada: an agricultural podcast” covers migrant worker issues in Canada

Arts June 13, 2021

By: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Made in Canada: an agricultural podcast delves into the issues migrant workers face in Canada. Written and narrated by Pedro Chamale, SFU alum and co-director of rice & beans theatre, the podcast offers first-and-second-hand accounts…

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