The Firehall Arts Centre will welcome audiences of 50 back into its theatre for a socially distanced fall season.

 

The venue's artistic producer Donna Spencer said she'd been encouraged by the summer's Music in the Courtyard series, concerts that have been selling out and which continue weekends until September 27.

 

The season kicks off October 15 to 25 with Allan Morgan's I Walked the Line, based on the well-known local actor's stint in the mailroom of a union headquarters, then taking to a picket line in solidarity with his coworkers. It's directed by Ross Desprez and produced by Bread and Roses Theatre, sponsored by The Other Guys Theatre.

 

From November 4 to 7, the Firehall and Vancouver Moving Theatre present In the Beginning, in which storyteller, filmmaker, and performer Rosemary Georgeson joins Spencer herself to delve into the history of the Indigenous peoples here—specifically those from the different cultural heritages in Strathcona, Chinatown, Gastown, and Japantown.

 

November 12 ro 22 marks the world premiere of The Amaryllis, produced with the Firehall with The Search Party. Written by Michele Riml and directed by Mindy Parfitt, itstars Jillian Fargey and Shawn Macdonald as a voice-overartist, her troubled agent, and the mysterious plant of the title.