Based on Canadian literary luminary George Fetherling’s critically acclaimed 2011 novel of the same name, Walt Whitman’s Secret by Sean O’Leary mines the life of the most influential poet in the American canon for insights about creativity, sexuality, relations between the sexes and the often irreconcilable tensions between idealized love and how love actually manifests. Was Whitman – one of history’s most eloquent versifiers on romantic love – ever able to attain the kind of love he wrote so forcefully about?

Written by Sean O’Leary
Based on the novel by George Fetherling
Dramaturgy by C. E. Gatchalian
Directed by Jack Paterson

Featuring Conrad Belau, Adele Noronha, Kamyar Pazandeh and Tom Pickett

Set Design by Michelle Allard
Lighting Design by Itai Erdal
Costume Design by Carmen Alatorre
Sound Design by Dorothy Dittrich
Stage Management by Jethelo Espaldon Cabilete

Produced by the frank theatre company, with the support of Presentation House Theatre

Oct 14-23, 2016 (Wed-Sat, 8pm | Sun, 2pm)
Preview Oct 13
Gala fundraiser performance Oct 19 (6:30pm)
ASL-interpreted performance Oct 21
Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave, North Vancouver)
Tickets at www.phtheatre.org