Funny. But dark. Very, very dark. Set in 1970s East Van, Cheyenne Rouleau‘s The Sunrise Betties is a hilariously subversive crime thriller involving an all-female street gang who inadvertently start a turf war with a prominent gangster and find their loyalty tested with the arrival of a crooked VPD officer promising protection. Equally inspired by the classic gangster […]
WE’RE STILL HERE! And, yes, it has been a long time since you’ve heard from us. COVID hit just a few weeks after we closed our February 2020 production of Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men and this put us, along with most of our colleagues, into a kind of purgatory. However, this moment of stasis also created […]
Welcome to Straight White Men by Young Jean Lee. In the link below, you will find a List of Resources that focus on the themes and subject matter covered by Straight White Men. We understand that the the subject matter and themes explored in this play are challenging. Our hope is that this piece encourages conversations to extend beyond […]
ITSAZOO is excited to be presenting our largest and most challenging show to date, Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men – a hilarious and provocative examination of white privilege, liberal guilt, and the definitions of success within the capitalist rat race. We need your help to offer 150 discounted tickets to Straight White Men at $10 each. In order […]
ITSAZOO is excited to announce we’re looking to hire two performers for our upcoming production of Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men presented at the Gateway Theatre, February 6th-15th, 2020. Character Breakdown: Person in Charge 1 and 2 are the creators of this theatre experience. They greet the audience off the top and set the stage, […]
ITSAZOO is ecstatic to announce our new Playwright-in-Residence: The one and only Cheyenne Rouleau. Cheyenne is a Vancouver based playwright, actor and producer. Her break out hit, The After After Party (co-created with Katie Hoffman), was a smash hit at the Vancouver Fringe Festival, won the Georgia Straight’s Critics Choice Award, and was presented as […]
Straight White Men is a hilarious and provocative exploration of identity politics, white privilege and liberal guilt. Young Jean Lee’s contemporary masterpiece, recently seen on Broadway, will be making its Western Canadian premiere (and first official Canadian production) on the Gateway Theatre MainStage, February 6th – 15th, 2020, as part of their 2019/20 Season. Straight […]
Tickets on sale now! WET is an award winning In-Yer-Face play set during the height of Canada’s involvement in the Afghanistan War. A soldier returns home from active duty abandoned by her county. She’s broken. Her husband thinks he can fix her. She can no longer be a mother. He becomes her caregiver. She wants to disappear. He wants his wife […]
THE TALK FORWARD SERIES a curated discussion in conjunction with The Pipeline Project The second act of each performance is a Talk Forward – a facilitated discussion with a curated guest speaker. Each speaker has an expertise and/or lived experience relating directly to the themes explored in the play. There is a different speaker after […]
THE PIPELINE PROJECT By Sebastien Archibald, Kevin Loring and Quelemia Sparrow Co-Produced by Savage Society in association with Neworld Theatre Developed with assistance from PTC TOUR DATES: Vancouver – The Firehall Arts Centre, January 10th – 20th, 2018. Tickets available now! New Westminster – The Anvil Centre, January, 24th – 25th, 2018. Tickets available now! […]