Ensemble Theatre Company

08/19/2025

Next up in MONSTROSITY: A Summer Readings Series

antigone 方

Re-education awaits anyone who challenges the state’s traditional doctrine.

antigone: 方 is a contemporary adaptation of Sophocles’ classic inspired by Jeff Ho’s heritage, the 2014 Umbrella Movement student protests, and the 1989 uprising in Tiananmen Square.

Antigone faces high stakes as she stands up for her brother against her father's will. In the courage of a young woman, there is hope for the future.

📆 August 21 at 7:30 PM
📆 August 23 at 7:30 PM
📌 Jericho Arts Centre

🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/antigone-by-jeff-ho-at-monstrosity-etcs-summer-play-reading-festival-tickets-1564672871679?aff=oddtdtcreator

Directed by: Kenneth Seto Tynan
Cast: Alison Chang, Violet Grace, Ayako Karasawa, Chris Lam, Kenneth Liu, and Geoff Sugiyama
Graphic Design by: Emma Tynan

Grab your umbrella and join us at antigone: 方 one of three electrifying Canadian plays in Monstrosity: ETC's Summer Play Readings Festival.

08/18/2025

Join us for Little One by Hannah Moscovitch directed by ETC alum Keltie Forsyth (In the Next Room, or the vi****or play and Superior Donuts)!

Aaron and Claire are adopted siblings–one the definition of normal, the other deeply disturbed.

Together, the two discover the strange lives of their neighbours, a man, and his mail-order bride in “Little One” by Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch.

This is a story teeming with family drama mixed with psychological thriller. Don't miss out on a reading of “Little One” during our Summer Play Reading Festival.

📆 August 22 at 7:30 PM
📆 August 24 at 2 PM
📌 Jericho Arts Centre

🎟️ Get tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/little-one-by-hannah-moscovitch-at-monstrosity-summer-reading-festival-tickets-1564688648869?aff=oddtdtcreator

Directed by: Keltie Forsyth
Cast: Alexander Forsyth and Alison Chang
Graphic Design by: Emma Tynan

Come and be enthralled by Hannah Moscovitch's Little One in Monstrosity: ETC's Summer Play Readings Festival.

08/08/2025

We're back with a Summer Play Reading Festival from August 21 to 24!

🎟 Read more and get tickets at https://mailchi.mp/a5328cffc9df/were-back-with-lia-dor-17303425.

10/23/2024

10/23/2024

Come see this stunner of a local production at Vancouver Fringe.

https://www.vancouverfringe.com/events/paranorma-pi/

October 25 7PM
October 26 8PM

Chill X Studio - 2270 Manitoba Street

Prepare to be spellbound by “ParaNorma PI,” the award winning comedic solo show where the world of paranormal investigation meets the seductive art of burlesque. Starring Hilary Fillier, this captivating performance dives into the supernatural with comedic wit, charm, and a tantalizing t***y tassel twist.

As the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead lifts, ParaNorma, a 100% Private Investigator of the ParaNormal Variety, demonstrates her peculiar ability to channel otherworldly witnesses to crack open a spine-chilling case.

Fillier’s tantalizing performance will have you on the edge of your seat. Blending comedic prowess and spine-chilling suspense with the irresistible allure of t***y tassels, Fillier’s unapologetic celebration of her fat body on stage is a must-see spectacle.

10/12/2024

🤝 Meet the rest of the amazing team behind Lia & Dor 🤝
Keltie Forsyth (Director), Chris Lam (Producer), Kayleigh Sandomirsky (Production Manager), Nicole Rose Bond (Choreographer) and Lester Lee (Sound/Lighting Designer/Stage Manager–not pictured).

🔷 Keltie Forsyth is a theatre director of settler ancestry based out of the traditional and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She holds an MFA in Theatre Directing from UBC. Recent directing credits include: Beautiful Man (Pi Theatre), In Response to Alabama (Little Thief Theatre), Vietgone, The Red Priest (United Players of Vancouver), and Superior Donuts.

🔷 Chris Lam is a director/actor/ and playwright. As director some of his work which was last seen include Canadian premieres of Stiles and Drewe’s 3 Little Pigs (Carousel Theatre); The Nether (Firehall Arts Centre); Girlfriend (Fighting Chance Productions).

🔷 Kayleigh Sandomirsky is a stage/production manager, producer, curator and performer. She works in both theatre and dance, and has toured productions across Canada. Recent Stage and Production Management credits: Empty-Handed (PM/SM - The Biting School), Agrimony (PM/SM - Sophie Dow and Laura Reznek), and Lip Service 3 (PM/SM - Pulsive Party).

🔷 Nicole Rose Bond began her formal dance training at York University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Dance cm laude in 2005. Nicole has felt privileged to perform cross Canada multiple times and internationally works by esteemed choreographers including: Peggy Baker, Patricia Beatty, Tom Brouillette, Susan Cash, Bill Coleman, and David Earle.

🔷 Lester Lam is a Chinese Canadian Stage Manager, Designer and Technician who predominantly works on new productions in an artistic technical capacity. He has worked across the country and abroad in many live-performance capacities on projects of technical merit and interest to challenge himself with innovative tech and visionary collaborators. He is an outspoken advocate of anti-racist, anti-capitalist art and decolonizing theatre experiences.

Hit the 🔗 for 🎟️:
https://www.firehallartscentre.ca/event/lia-dor/

10/11/2024

🤝 Meet the performers of Lia & Dor | Cristina Tudor & Alex Forsyth 🤝

🔷 Cristina Tudor is a Romanian actress, playwright and movement artist. She graduated the MFA Acting International Program at East15 Acting School in London.⁠
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Her experience encompasses the collaboration with Romanian theatre & performing arts companies Asociația Hearth, Adepth Infusion, Cultură'n Șură, Delazero, and Cuibul Artiștilor, as well as with British companies: Bezna Theatre, The Tristan Bates Theatre, The Arcola Theatre (London), The Tron Theatre (Glasgow) and Canadian companies: KIA Productions, Ensemble Theatre, Performance Works (Vancouver) and The Nordic Studio (Edmonton). She is an associate artist with GoldenBoi Screendance - a project based in London exploring dance and movement in film - and Béznă Theatre - a British-Romanian theatre collective.⁠
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Cristina is the founder of Cătun , an organization creating work that invites audiences in a space of introspection, empathy and connection.

🔷 Alex Forsyth is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist with focuses in the performing, written, and visual arts.

Both Alex and the company he founded – K.I.A. Productions – originate in ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐊᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ on the traditional territories of the ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ, Denesuliné, Îyâaabe, and Niitsitapi Nations and within the Métis homelands and Métis Nation of Alberta Region 4. Here he began writing, producing, and performing plays that have toured nationally and internationally in collaboration with his wife and co-artistic director Keltie Forsyth.

Acting credits include Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe), DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (WB), Charmed (CBS), and Genetic Drift (Pi Theatre). His plays include 7 Ways to Die, a love story (with Keltie Forsyth), Bedlam (Junior Jester Cap Award, Calgary Fringe Festival), and Whiskey, Gin, and Pints of Beer. Alex holds a Master of Fine Arts with Distinction in Acting from East 15 Acting School (London, UK) and a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Creative Writing from the University of Alberta.

Lia & Dor is on tonight at 7:30PM at .arts ! Grab your tickets now at the 🔗:
https://www.firehallartscentre.ca/event/lia-dor/

10/10/2024

The set is looking pretty magical for Lia & Dor's run at the Firehall Arts Centre🤩✨ There's still time to get tickets to see this “exquis­ite expres­sion of a Roman­ian folk tale!” (UMFM Winnipeg).
Hit the 🔗 for 🎟️:
https://www.firehallartscentre.ca/event/lia-dor/

👀 Showtimes 👀
Thursday, October 10th at 7:30PM
Friday, October 11th at 7:30PM
Saturday, October 12th at 3PM & 7:30PM
Sunday, October 13th at 3PM

10/04/2024

After a run of shows across Canada, Lia & Dor is coming back to Vancouver for a limited run of performances from October 9 – 13th at Firehall Arts Centre 🎟️ Get your tickets now at the 🔗 below:
www.firehallartscentre.ca/event/lia-dor

★★★★ Lia & Dor is “a whimsical, mesmerizing journey” – Edmonton Journal.
Immerse yourself in the mysterious world of Romanian folklore sprung from the mind of award-winning performer and playwright Cristina Tudor as she explores the memories of family, the meaning of homeland, and the fables we tell each other about ourselves and the past. Lia & Dor interweaves a Romanian fairy tale with a surprising and salacious family history.

👀 SHOWTIMES 👀
Wednesday, October 9th at 7:30PM
Thursday, October 10th at 7:30PM
Friday, October 11th at 7:30PM
Saturday, October 12th at 3PM & 7:30PM
Sunday, October 13th at 3PM

10/03/2024

🚨VANCOUVER🚨
Lia & Dor is back with a must-see limited run of shows at the Firehall Arts Centre from October 9th to 13th! Get your tickets now:
www.firehallartscentre.ca/event/lia-dor

★★★★ Lia & Dor is “a whimsical, mesmerizing journey” – Edmonton Journal.
Lia & Dor interweaves a whimsical Romanian fairy tale with a surprising and salacious family history. There is a word in Romanian which has no English equivalent. Dor. It means something like longing. It encompasses melancholy, joy and hope. A feeling that drives you to take a new journey, fall in love, come back home. You know this feeling, we all do. In a Romania that both is and isn’t today, a girl is compelled by Dor to take a journey. What she enters is a fairy tale that challenges her to face her family’s past and draw strength from her cultural traditions to trace a path into her future.

Live Summer Theatre on Granville Island at The Waterfront Theatre 1412 Cartwright St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R7