PLEASE NOTE:The scheduled performance of “A Beautiful View” on Sunday March 16th at 7:30pm in the Baby Grand has been cancelled.
The Sunday matinee will proceed as planned. Ticket holders can exchange tickets for another performance next week or refund at the box office.
Volcano Theatre's A Beautiful View explores friendship. Specifically, a friendship between two young women that spans over a decade of their lives, and that moves through many phases: fun, confusion, misunderstanding, betrayal, longing for reconciliation, fear, and finally, death.
MacIvor's play is subversive in its apparent simplicity, with its light comic tone: two women arrive on a stage, and tell the story of their relationship. It's funny and quirky and wonderfully entertaining. Gradually, we realize that stories of camping and bands are not entirely what the evening is about...
Volcano brings this hit production back to Canada, in association with BeMe Theatre, Munich. Direction is by Volcano's founding Artistic Director Ross Manson, with Canadian actors Becky Johnson and Amy Rutherford, and German composer Krister Schuchardt.
The reality of life that A Beautiful View shows us is like the bittersweet ukelele duet of the two main characters: sometimes a fragile interplay, sometimes a rhythmic drift. But under the surface is revealed a search for deep meaning. Thanks above all to their wonderful leading actors, they manage something that others need volumes to achieve: an authentic portrait of a generation, its hopes, its fears.
- The Suddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
Presented in partnership with Theatre Kingston
Part of the Homestead Theatre Series.
Tickets: $29 + fees and taxes. This show qualifies for IMPACT pricing.
