Vancouver, welcome Naomi Vogt!

The young actor is terrific as Dara in Nicholas Billon’s Faroe Islands, which is about a young activist who’s working to save the pilot whales that are hunted off the Danish archipelago. Early on, Dara jokes about how unfortunate it is that she’s double-booked, with Weight Watchers, the room we’re meeting in. Dara is physically big and her story is about how she experiences—and resists—control and exclusion.

In the small performance space, Vogt builds the play’s reality through responsiveness to the moment and to audience members. As a result, her delivery is seamlessly nuanced.

 Craig March imposes more deliberate artifice in the weaker companion piece, Ostrich. He’s not bad. But Vogt is the real thing.

 At Arts Umbrella. Remaining performances on September 13 (6:15 p.m.), 14 (9:45 p.m.), 16 (8 p.m.), 17 (9:45 p.m.), and 19 (8 p.m.)