Touchstone Theatre launches 2021-22 season with live performance of Lights by Adam Grant Warren
The intimate play exploring family bonds and facing loss in the shadow of Alzheimer’s disease has its world premiere in Vancouver
In Lights, Evan Chaulk (Adam Grant Warren, right) returns to his childhood home in Newfoundland to spend the holidays with his mother, Nancy (Susinn McFarlen). Photo by David Cooper
Touchstone Theatre is excited to welcome audiences back to live theatre with the world premiere of Lights by Adam Grant Warren, the company’s first production since the 2020 COVID-19 shutdown.
A Touchstone Theatre production in association with the Firehall Arts Centre, Lights runs from December 2 to 12 at the Firehall Arts Centre.
Heralding an emboldened return to the stage after a challenging 18 months, the intimate play reflects the theme of Touchstone’s forthcoming season: “Let There Be Lights”.
Directed by Touchstone Theatre artistic director Roy Surette and set against the backdrop of a pandemic Christmas, Lights follows the story of Evan Chaulk (Adam Grant Warren), a schoolteacher and wheelchair user who returns to his Newfoundland family home for the holidays to discover his mother, Nancy (Susinn McFarlen), a strong-willed retired teacher, adapting to life with Alzheimer’s disease.
Unsettling, daring, and funny, Lights is a portrait of a tight-night family facing profound life changes and what remains when a lifetime of memories begins to fade away.
As Touchstone Theatre’s first of three world premieres this season, the production (which was postponed three times because of the pandemic) was developed through Touchstone's Flying Start Program, an incubator supporting the next generation of theatre artists through the commissioning of new Canadian works by early career playwrights.
LIGHTS by Adam Grant Warren
Dec 2 - 12, 2021
SHOWTIMES:
Thursday - Saturday | 7:30pm
Matinees | 3pm
Artist Talkbacks | December 8, 3pm Matinee & December 9, 7:30pm
Relaxed Performance | Sunday, December 5, 3pm
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BUY PASSES: 604.709.9973 or touchstonetheatre.com
For more information, see Touchstone Theatre.