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The wearing of masks is currently optional. Please ask Front-of-House if you require or want a mask.

For Assistance and Accessibility:

Both the Pavilion and Sagebrush Theatres are wheelchair accessible and equipped with wheelchair-seating locations.

In consideration of your fellow audience members’ comfort and enjoyment, we ask the following:

Electronic Devices: Please turn off all cellular phones and watch alarms prior to the show. Due to copyright regulations, the use of cameras and other video or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited.

Late Arrival and Re-admission: If you arrive after a performance has begun or leave the auditorium during the performance, we will make every effort to seat you at an appropriate interval in the program. Please be advised that this may not be the seat you are ticketed for, depending on its location in the theatre.

Scent-free Facilities: Please arrive perfume/cologne-free and do not bring flowers into the lobby or theatre.

Children: WCT productions, unless they are identified as family friendly, are not suitable for children or babes in arms. For more information, please visit the FAQs on wctlive.ca

Proudly supporting the arts in Kamloops

In the script of this play, the playwrights describe it as being set “in that liminal space between coming and going, true love and heartbreak, war and peace”. It is deeply evocative of a place and a people who are very much in the news, and on our minds, for the past year.

The play is about politics and war, but its success also lies in the insight we gain into people who undergo these struggles and tribulations. The play reminds us that people are naturally resilient, and people need to fall in love, regardless of circumstances. The darkness of the backdrop lends a wonderful contrasting poignancy and joy to the playfulness and romance of two unlikely people falling in love.

Theatre and popular entertainment have shown that in many ways, the best way to experience and learn about troubling and difficult subjects is by demonstrating the lives of people who show their determination and humanity while living under those circumstances. Whether a tragi-comedy such as Life is Beautiful, a drama such as Vimy, or a romance such as Birdsong (one of my favourite books), seeing war through the lens of daily life is the ideal way to empathize with the real sufferers of war—the ordinary people.

The ultimate goal of theatre is to provoke empathy and understanding by placing you in the shoes of other people—not just to know what happened to them, but to feel it. Matt and Mariya could be any of us, and that is the power of their story. We’re appreciative that they share it with us.

We’re thrilled to be able to collaborate with Punctuate! Theatre on another great world premiere here in the Pavilion Theatre on a play that has a great future ahead of it across Canada. And we’re very happy to have you join us in this experience.

Enjoy.

James MacDonald, Artistic Director