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The beauty of math through the eyes of SFU’s Peter Dickinson
November 14, 2016You may not think to look at the circumstances that bring people together as a mathematical equation, but Peter Dickinson, SFU professor in the department of English and the School for the Contemporary Arts, has written a play in which love is looked at through the language of math. The impetus for Long Division comes out of one of his previous plays, The Objecthood of Chairs. “It’s about a relationship between two men, told through chair design,” said Dickinson. One of those men, Paul, is a high school math teacher. Dickinson wanted to explore this character further, along with six…
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Bringing New West history back from the dead — literally
October 18, 2016What happens when a person travels forward through time only to meet their own ghost? Playwright Elizabeth Elwood explores this possibility in her current production, Body and Soul. Elwood spoke to The Peak a few days into the show’s run,…
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Acting out gaps in Cantonese culture
October 18, 2016SFU theatre alumnus Milton Lim has been busy over the past few years with his company Hong Kong Exile, creating and directing interdisciplinary works. He doesn’t often find himself acting in another company’s work, and he is very excited to…
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Exploring the idiosyncrasies of elections with Fight Night
October 18, 2016With the US presidential election looming, politics and democracy are on many people’s minds. Fight Night explores the way democracy works and how easy it can be to be influenced by a candidate. On the phone from Belgium, Angelo Tijssens…
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Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery is full of farce and imagination
September 26, 2016Based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, this play by Ken Ludwig is full of corny lines and all the idiosyncrasies that we have come to love in both Holmes and his trusty assistant Watson. The…
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Bard on the Beach is about the experience, not the production
June 27, 2016With its 27th season in full swing, patrons new and old alike have been lining up in front of the wrought iron fences and white tents to see the players of Bard on the Beach. With two of Shakespeare's greatest…
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CENTRE STAGE: BroadWHAT?! brings musical improv to the masses and How to Survive an Apocalypse is a witty rom-com for the end times
June 17, 2016BroadWHAT?! Off Key Improv June 15 – 19; Studio 1398 Most people have heard of Theatresports or been to one of their hilarious improv shows on Granville Island, but musical improv is still relatively new to our city. Off Key…
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Is there such as thing as gay heritage?
March 14, 2016Whether you identify within the LGBTQ+ spectrum or not, The Gay Heritage Project will speak to anyone’s sense of what it means to create a sense of belonging. Actors Paul Dunn, Andrew Kushnir, and Damien Atkins have embarked on a…
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Harry Potter and the flogging of a dead horse
February 22, 2016[dropcap]I[/dropcap] don’t remember what I did when I first watched the trailer for the new Harry Potter film spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but I do recall my excitement. So why am I so bummed for the…
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Seeds docudrama tours Lower Mainland
January 21, 2016The Peak had an opportunity to chat with Annabel Soutar about her play Seeds. When she first heard about Percy Schmeiser’s legal battle against Monsanto in the Supreme Court of Canada, she was intrigued. It was 2003, and she travelled…
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