WESTERN GOLD’S 2025 SEASON

Here We Go

By Caryl Churchill
Directed by Kathryn Bracht
May 8 – 25, 2025
PAL STUDIO THEATRE
8th Floor, 581 Cardero Street, Vancouver BC
Evenings Wed-Sat @ 7:30pm
Matinees: Thurs, Sat, Sun (starting May 10) @ 2:00pm

MAINSTAGE PRODUCTION

A funeral party for a man with an adventurous past and a ginger cat that needs a home. Written by one of the world’s premier living female playwrights, Here We Go is a humourous, moving contemplation of our own mortality.

Cast

David Bloom

Bernard Cuffling

Rosy Frier-Dryden

Richard Newman

Kate Robbins

Peihwen J. Tai

Creative Team

Kathryn Bracht: Director

Glenn MacDonald: Production Manager/Set Designer

Ingrid Turk: Stage Manager

John Webber: Lighting Designer

Barbara Clayden: Costume Designer

Torquil Campbell: Sound Designer

Andrej Stanojlovic: Assistant Production Designer

Alivia Sabatino: Assistant Stage Manager

Phay Moores: Intimacy Coordinator

Laura White: Palliative Care Consultant

Carie Boykin, Johnathan Stone, Sebastian Barberà: Stagehands

Home

By Melody Anderson 
Directed by Roy Surette
October 3 – 5, 2025
Part of Have A Senior Moment Festival (October 3 – 12)
PAL STUDIO THEATRE
8th Floor, 581 Cardero Street, Vancouver BC

OOF! (On Our Feet) STAGED READING

This broad, farcical revenge comedy features an elderly woman who seeks justice after the death of her husband and a subsequent home invasion. Equal parts hilarious and compassionate—prepare to be tickled!

Gertrude and Alice

By Anna Chatterton, Evalyn Parry, and Karin Randoja
Directed by Lois Anderson
November 6 – 23, 2025
PAL STUDIO THEATRE
8th Floor, 581 Cardero Street, Vancouver BC

MAINSTAGE SHOW
In partnership with Touchstone Theatre and in association with United Players of Vancouver

Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas visit PAL Studio Theatre to recount their forty-year relationship; their famous Paris salons where who’s who of artists gathered; and Alice’s overwhelming, consuming devotion to Gertrude’s genius. They survived in Paris in WW2. Now they want to find out how their lives are – or are not – remembered.

Nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award (2018)

Have a Senior Moment Festival 2025

COMING October 2025
PAL STUDIO THEATRE
581 Cardero Street, Vancouver B.C.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR OCTOBER 2025!

We’re busy developing our third annual HAVE A SENIOR MOMENT FESTIVAL – an event that turns the notion of “have a senior moment” (normally understood as a moment of forgetfulness, a foolish mistake, or a lack of understanding based on age) on its head!

Artistic Director Tanja Dixon-Warren says, “I wanted to change the perception of seniors “having a moment” and reclaim the term to mean a moment showing older adults living their lives in richness, fullness, and in relationship with their communities and environments. I wanted to do this by giving senior artists “a moment” and by encouraging the voices of senior artists who, with so much life experience, are daring to be bold and are creating from their hearts! I am thrilled that Have a Senior Moment Festival is back for a 2nd year celebrating the Western Gold Theatre tagline: Creativity has no Expiry Date!“

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
We’re currently seeking new scripts for the HAVE A SENIOR MOMENT FESTIVAL by writers who identify as seniors/elders, or scripts highlighting senior’s stories. The chosen scripts will receive a one (1) hour meeting with a dramaturge and a public reading with a maximum of four (4) actors filmed for archival purposes. The recordings may also be included in our Virtual Gold Series.

FIND OUT MORE AND HOW TO SUBMIT HERE

The 2025 festival will also include an OOF! (On Our Feet) presentation of Melody Anderson’s wonderful new script, HOME, plus lots of other activities, events, and ways for you to get involved in the performing arts.

Keep checking back on this page as we update with further details!