The Cultch
SKIM and Maiden China get personal in YOU AND I ≠ WE
June 15, 2023By: C Icart, Humour Editor “Do you like living in Vancouver?” That’s the first question Maiden China (Kendell Yan’s drag persona) asks her co-star SKIM (Romi Kim’s drag persona) during their show YOU AND I ≠ WE as part of the rEvolver Festival at The Cultch. What follows is a long answer reflecting on what it means to be a racialized settler on unceded, unsurrendered xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territory. But how did I get here? Well, the first time I fell in love with SKIM was during Pride last year. Their moving drag performance to the…
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Controller fearlessly dives into the human-robot conundrum
June 20, 2022Editor’s Note: A previous version stated this play was produced by Theatre Conspiracy. This is incorrect and has been updated to reflect that Controller was produced by Nebula Theatre Company. Theatre Conspiracy is a community partner who assists with marketing.…
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Shimmering with Julie Hammond and Other Inland Empires
May 18, 2019By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor Julie Hammond is a Vancouver artist whose practice focuses on place and identity. She recently completed her MFA in Contemporary Arts at SFU in 2017, and her grad project is being mounted again this week…
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Shows to see at the Cultch this February
January 30, 2018By: Alex Bloom Jabberwocky — February 6–17 at the York Theatre [caption id="attachment_102466" align="alignleft" width="164"] (Image courtesy of the Cultch)[/caption] Presented by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop, this is a theatrical experience like no other you will see this year.…
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Honour: Confessions of a Mumbai Courtesan is an eye-opening story of resilience
October 29, 2017By: Ashley Lee While Honour is a fictional play, the story is all too real for sex workers and their families in Mumbai. The play, presented as part of Diwali in BC, is a five-year project founded by Rohit Chokhani that…
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The Goblin Market: a stellar acrobatic performance
October 26, 2017By Aaron Richardson During the walk to your seat at the recent production of The Goblin Market you were accompanied by a half-naked man in a goblin mask fingering a cantaloupe. Far from the most sexual use of fruit in…
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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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Flicker magnifies indigenous dance in a multimedia performance
May 30, 2016Culture is always evolving, ‘flickering’ between what it was and what it is becoming. Dancers of Damelahamid carefully negotiate this in-between space in their new work Flicker, which premiered at the Cultch Historic Theatre on May 25. The work is…
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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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The Sensationalists is an immersive dance experience
May 15, 2015[caption id="attachment_2584" align="aligncenter" width="533"] Photo courtesy of David Cooper.[/caption] Up close and personal on the Cultch stage, the 605 Collective danced around, in between, over, and under us as we were immersed in their performance. This experimental work had the…
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