The Effect By Lucy Prebble
Is it Love? Or is it Chemical?
Vancouver Premiere
a co-production with RUMBLE Theatre
November 7th to 22nd, 2025
Progress Lab 1422
1422 Williams St., Vancouver
(wheelchair accessible)
Tickets:
$20 Preview (Limited – Book Early!)
$25 Discounted/Artists Tickets (only available on specific dates)
$30 Regular
$40 I ❤️ Indie Theatre
Directed by Jiv Parasram
Content Advisory:
This is a close-proximity experience. This production includes sexual content, adult language, discussions of depression and mental health, and portrayals of pharmaceutical trials. For more detailed content descriptions, get in touch!
Length: 90mins with no intermission.
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A dark, razor-sharp thriller by Emmy-winning writer of Succession, Lucy Prebble. The Effect dives into the chemical nature of love through the lens of a clinical drug trial. Connie and Tristan enter a study for a new dopamine-regulating antidepressant. They fall in love. Or do they? As the dosages rise, desire and obsession intensify. And the boundary between genuine emotion and altered chemistry begins to blur. This provocative and timely co-production with our friends at Rumble Theatre asks: If you can’t trust your heart and you can’t trust your mind—what’s left?
For The Effect we’ll be transforming the studio at Progress Lab 1422 into an immersive audio/visual staging ground under the direction of Rumble’s own Jiv Parasram.
For Box Office Inquires:
If you have any specific access needs or if ticket prices are a financial barrier please email:
Angie at angie[at]rumble.org
PRODUCTION
Playwright: Lucy Prebble
Director: Jiv Parasram
Assistant Director: Alisha Davidson
Intimacy Director: Lisa Goebel
Stage Manager: Maria Zarrillo
Technical Director/Sound Design: Jack Goodison
Lighting Design: Phil Miguel
Costume Design: Christine Quintana
Set/Props/Projection Design: Monica Emme
Photography: Chelsey Stuyt
Graphic Design: Elsa Orme
Producers: Sebastien Archibald, Paige Louter, Angie Descalzi, Maria Zarrillo
Publicity: Ashley Foot
Marketing & Box Office: Angie Descalzi
Outreach: Anna Brew
CAST
DR LORNA JAMES – Meghan Gardiner
CONNIE – Paige Louter
TRISTAN – Andy Kalirai
DR TOBY SEALY – Anthony Santiago
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