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SUPER SENIORS PAY-PER-VIEW VIDEO
Limited Run on YouTube

Once you purchase a ticket, you’ll receive a dedicated link to watch the performance!

Western Gold is pleased to offer a video version of Kathryn Shaw’s recent hit SUPER SENIORS! If you missed seeing it on stage in June, you can now view is as part of our Virtual Gold: LOOK! series as a pay-per-view YouTube screening.

Ever wonder what it would be like to be alive and kicking at 105? In this new comedy, Kathryn Shaw takes you to the Fairfield Residence to meet three women over the age of 105 who have differing responses to their extraordinarily long lives. Based on experience with her own ancient family members, the writer brings insight and humour to the conundrum of extreme old age.

CAST (click name to read bio)
Kathryn Shaw: Playwright/Elizabeth
Patti Allan: Mildred
Annabel Kershaw: Hildy
Alisha Davidson: Twyla, Reporter
Matheus Severo: Cameron, Server

CREATIVE TEAM (click name to read bio)
Itai Erdal: Lighting Designer
Sheila White: Costume Designer
Pam Johnson: Set Designer
June Mirochnick: Sound/Music Designer
Diane Speirs: Vocal Coach
Ingrid Turk: Stage Manager
Fraser Read: Stage Manager
Chaeli Smith: Assistant Stage Manager
Glenn MacDonald: Set Construction
Andrej Stanojlovic: Lighting Technician
Linda Begg: Props Coordinator
Emily Dotson: Scenic Painter

Lou Marshall: Rehearsal Stage Manager
Johnathan Stone: Stagehand
Colleen Bayati, Nicole Huang, Leighton Taylor: Lighting Technicians

THREE TIERED TICKET PRICING

We will be offering three tiers of ticket prices so as many people as possible have the opportunity to watch SUPER SENIORS online.

  • Regular price: $25
  • Concession price: $15 – this ticket is for those who want to commit but can’t pay the full amount, ie students, seniors, artists, those on the front lines – you know who you are!
  • Pay what you can: If you are stretched in the pocketbook – no worries! This ticket is for you. Pay only what you can by donating – and if you can’t, that’s fine too!

THE PINCH PENNY POKER PLAYERS CHRISTMAS LIGHT TOUR 
Written and Performed by Nora D. Randall

Keep the joyous season alive all year round! Tune in for an episodic holiday treat for lovers of cozy mysteries, old ladies, cantankerous bus drivers, the beauty of southern Vancouver Island and the magic of its celebrations.

Join the Pinch Pennys as they hit the Ladysmith Light Up, the Chemainus Dinner Theatre, the Duncan Farmers’ Market, and Butchart Gardens’ Magic of Christmas (circa 2005). Much as they are out to celebrate, they are dogged by a series of ever increasingly alarming events. And why are they stuck with the bus company boss’ mother?

Follow along as school-bus driver Mavis sets out on her greatest bus trip yet. Told in a series of episodes to be released regularly over the course of 2023, Mavis will let you know exactly how she got involved, even though the other bus driver turned out to be her irritating ex-lover. She’ll reveal who’s on the bus, all the weird things that happened — some of them which only she saw (and that scared the bejesus out of her) — how the old ladies were undaunted, though forgetful, and what happened with the boss’ mother!

FINAL EPISODE!
CERTAIN FACTS HAVE COME TO MY ATTENTION

We’ve reached the final episode of The Pinch Penny Poker Players Christmas Light Tour. Welcome to the free-for-all at the end! Hope you enjoyed the journey.

View episodes 1 – 10 here

View episodes 11 & 12 below

If you’re enjoying Nora’s wonderful series, please consider donating to her favourite charity, Rainbow Refugee. More info below.

EPISODE 12
THE EIGHTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS

EPISODE 11
WE NEED WHEELS!

HELP NORA HELP OTHERS!

Nora is sponsoring a family through Rainbow Refugee and is requesting donations to this cause that is close to her heart. Please consider donating – even a small amount helps! All donations will receive a tax-deductible receipt.

DONATION INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Click here or on the DONATE HERE button below to go to the Rainbow Refugee donation page;

2. Click on the red DONATE button on the top, right-hand side of the page;

3. Then scroll down to the DONATION DETAILS field near the bottom of the page;

4. Enter your donation amount;

5. Click the FUND dropdown menu and scroll down to PENNY PINCHERS and click on it to ensure your donation goes to Nora’s family;

6. Fill in the rest of the information (credit card info, etc.) and then click the blue COMPLETE DONATION NOW button

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HAPPY WORLD THEATRE DAY!

World Theatre Day Message

WORLD THEATRE DAY (est. 1961). Celebrated annually on the 27th March, World Theatre Day is when the international theatre community comes together. To mark this, the International Message is written by a theatre personality of world stature. The 2024 Author of this message is Jon Fosse, a renowned Norwegian writer born in 1959. He is known for his extensive body of work, which includes plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books, and translations. Fosse’s writing style is characterized by minimalism and emotional depth, making him one of the most performed playwrights in the world. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his innovative plays and prose that give voice to the unsayable. At curtain time, around the world, this message is read on stages everywhere.

Each year, Western Gold Theatre creates a video in which members of our beloved theatre community read the World Theatre Day message in a number of languages.

Click on the reader’s name to read their bio and on the language (where available) to read the message in that language (listed alphabetically):

Mariam Barry (she/her) – Norwegian

Alen Dominguez (he/him) – Spanish

Nina Ferretti (she/her) – French

Monika Forberger (she/her) – German

Alet Giezen (she/her) – Dutch

Stefania Indelicato (she/her) – Italian

Mauro Joao (he/him) – Portuguese

Arik Koubi (he/him) – Hebrew

Kareem Marie (he/him) – Arabic

Toni Mehrain – Farsi

Harmanie Rose (she/her) – English

Andrej Stanojlovic (he/him) – Serbian

Maija Wiik (she/her) – Finnish

Xwechtaal (Dennis Joseph) (he/him) – Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish)

Maki Yi (she/her) – Korean

Colleen Bayati – Videographer

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Tune in to past Virtual Gold podcasts here.

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plays in Vancouver
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The Humber Foundation

The McGrane-Pearson Endowment Fund,
held at Vancouver Foundation

Stewart Fund,
held at Vancouver Foundation

McLean Foundation

Community Partners

We gratefully acknowledge that we are on the traditional and unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam),Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. We deeply thank them for so generously allowing us to live, work, and play on their beautiful lands.

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