BARDY HEARTIES: The Bard on the Beach theatre company artistic director, Christopher Gaze, welcomed guests to the Vancouver International Wine Festival’s Bacchanalia gala with a line from Sha…
BARDY HEARTIES: The Bard on the Beach theatre company artistic director, Christopher Gaze, welcomed guests to the Vancouver International Wine Festival’s Bacchanalia gala with a line from Shakespeare’s Henry VIII: “Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.” That 16th-century monarch’s notion of goodness, of course, included having six wives and beheading two of them.
GETTING STARTED: Theatre-company galas don’t always entail spiffed-up celebrants quaffing 10 wines and raising six figures. Take Eternal Theatre director Seamus Fera and aged-under-25 cast members who partied to fund a pop opera they’ll stage titled bare. Based on Shakespeare’s Rome and Juliet, it addresses Catholic boarding-school students “grappling with issues of sexuality, identity and the future.
OSCARS R’ US: While a 2019 Academy Awards audience filled Hollywood’s Dolby theatre, tourism entrepreneur Randy Vannatter and Women in Film + Television Vancouver’s Sarah Kalil and Shannon Kaplun welcomed guests to the Pinnacle Harbourfront hotel’s Vistas 360 Room. Unlike WIFTV’s boisterous parties in downtown clubs, this first Oscar-related event had several participants don tuxedos and gowns.
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