It really doesn’t get more timely. The Concierge of Vancouver is a new play that satirizes the Vancouver housing crisis and our insanely skyrocketing real-estate prices.

And don’t you think it’s better to laugh in a theatre about the fact that you might never own a home than to cry about it on your apartment couch? Shaul Ezer’s comedy links together an expensive near-empty condo building in Coal Harbour, a reclusive donor who gives away millions each year to worthy causes, and a tenacious reporter who’s investigating an international banker.

The Matchmaker Productions show hits Studio 1398 on Granville Island from Friday (October 7) to October 16.