GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES is coming to Vancouver!

Rajiv Joseph's 'wondrous strange two-hander' is coming to Vancouver! I'm very excited to present the artistic team and poster. I fell in love with this play as soon as I read it, which was perfect timing as I was trying to decide on a final apprentice project with Pacific Theatre. I can't believe the amazing team that has come together. We are excited to premiere this beautiful play in Vancouver!

Director - Chelsea Haberlin
Stage Manager - Shelby Bushell
Kayleen/Co-Producer - Pippa Johnstone
Doug/Co-Producer - Kenton Klassen
Set Designer - Carolyn Rapanos
Costume Designer - Christopher David Gauthier
Lighting Designer - Phil Miguel
Sound Designer - Chris Adams
Assistant Stage Manager - Charlie Mitchell
Communications Coordinator - Johnny Hamilton

Gruesome Playground Injuries follows the decades-spanning relationship of an accident-prone dare devil and a corrosive masochist who navigate friendship, love, and the wounds created in between. Doug and Kayleen first meet in the nurse’s office at the age of eight: Doug rode his bike off the roof and Kayleen can’t stop throwing up. Over the course of the next 30 years, their lives continue to intersect at the most bizarre intervals and places, leading the two childhood friends to compare scars and the physical calamities that keep drawing them together. Gruesome Playground Injuries tells a different kind of love story through sharp humor and even sharper insights into the human condition.

“This wondrous strange two-hander finds as much humor as horror in the play’s bizarre events.” —Variety.

July 3 - 12 (PWYC Preview July 2) Tickets – $15 at www.pacifictheatre.org

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