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— Production poster RISKY NIGHTS #2: SOUL RESOURCE Studio 58/Langara College presents the Risky Nights production of Studio 58, the nationally renowned professional theatre training program at Langara College, presents the Risky Nights production of SOUL RESOURCE, a classic story of jealousy and greed that looks at our abuse of natural resources in a very human context, directed by Rachel Peake. This new production is on stage from Monday, February 6 to Saturday, February 11 at 8:15 PM, with a matinee at 3:15pm on Sunday, February 12th in Room SO32 in the Student Union Building, Langara College. Soluma: the forest home of a photosynthetic race who live off the land, never venturing outside of their own borders. ONX: a technologically savvy city of metal and lights under the watchful eye of an all-controlling Leader. As an energy crisis threatens the ONX way of life, a fateful meeting between the two worlds brings ONX a new hope: the Sols' photosynthetic energy as a source of power. However, as we begin to see the measures that the ONX is willing to take to attain this power the question arises: when does need become greed? Now in its 12th season, the Risky Nights Series is designed as a bridge between classroom work and main stage productions. At the conclusion of their second year of training, students have an invaluable opportunity to create every aspect of an original theatre piece from start to finish with a professional director, and perform it for an intimate audience. Rachel is a freelance director and is the Co-Artistic Director of Solo Collective Theatre. She recently assistant directed Camelot at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and took part in the Festival’s Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction. Her directorial credits include After Jerusalem, The Trolley Car (Jessie Richardson Award nomination – Outstanding Direction) and The Project for Solo Collective Theatre, Pericles (DWP, Stratford Festival), La Cenerentola for Vancouver Opera in Schools, Comment devenir parfait en trois jours (Jessie Richardson nomination – Outstanding Production) and Écran de fumée for Théâtre la Seizième, That’s Just Crazy Talk and Head Over Heels (Crazy for Life Productions), Heptademic (Studio 58), the touring remount of The Glass Menagerie (Arts Club), and Mud Island for exit.left productions. Rachel was Artist-in-Residence of Ruby Slippers Theatre for 2009 and is co-founder of exit.left productions. Upcoming she will be directing the premiere of Le portrait Gooble for Théâtre la Seizième. Rachel is a graduate of the University of Alberta and Studio 58.
Langara College, Room SO32, Student Union Building, 100 W. 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6. For Info/Reservations (604)323.5227
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