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Lac/Athabasca Show and Ticket Details

NotaBle Acts’ production of Lac/Athabasca, staged in cooperation with Theatre Free Radical, is set to run from October 14-17 at Memorial Hall, UNB. An award-winning new play by Fredericton playwright and director Len Falkenstein, Lac/Athabasca will be performed for the first time in New Brunswick, after critically-acclaimed runs in Toronto and Vancouver.

Inspired by the tFixed loco athabasca (2)rain derailment disaster that devastated the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec in 2013 and by the ongoing debates over the environmental and social impact of the Alberta oil sands and the transportation of oil in Canada, Lac/Athabasca takes audiences on a cross-Canada journey that begins in the Rocky Mountains and ends in a small town in northern New Brunswick.

The play’s cast of five actors—Rebekah Chassé, Jake Martin, Alex Donovan, Emily Bossé, and Jean-Michel Cliche—each play several characters in a series of stories that range freely through time and space, but that all centre on rivers and railways that connect Canada from West to East, including a pair of nineteenth-century fur traders pursued by an unseen terror along Alberta’s Athabasca River, two scientists studying fish kills and cancer rates downstream from the oil sands, and the residents of a small town united in grief after an entirely preventable disaster. At first seemingly disconnected, the play’s multiple narrative strands eventually come together in ways that are shocking, thought-provoking, and deeply moving.

Lac/Athabasca premiered in Vancouver in 2014 and was recently performed at Toronto’s juried SummerWorks Theatre Festival, where it attracted national media attention and earned rave reviews, including selections from NOW Magazine as one of its “Best of the Fest” and for “Best Ensemble.” Earlier this year, the play was awarded Second Prize in both the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Contest and the Ottawa Little Theatre National Playwriting Contest.

Lac/Athabasca will be performed at 7:30 nightly from Wednesday, October 14 through Saturday, October 17 at UNB’s Memorial Hall. Tickets are $18 regular, $14 for seniors and underwaged, and $10 for students, and are available at the door. For more information or to reserve tickets, call 506 458-7406, email nbacts@unb.ca, or visit www.theatrefreeradical.wordpress.com

NB Acts to Stage Fall Mainstage Production of Award-Winning Lac/Athabasca

NotaBle Acts is delighted to announce a special addition to our 2015 season. For the first time in many years, we will be staging a fall mainstage production. In cooperation with Theatre Free Radical and with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Province of New Brunswick, we will be producing Lac/Athabasca, a new play by Len Falkenstein.

Lac/Athabasca will be staged at Memorial Hall, UNB, Wednesday, October 14 through Saturday, October 17, with performances at 7:30 PM nightly.

Lac/Athabasca is a play that takes audiences on a thought-provoking and emotional cross-Canada journey from the Rocky Mountains to the East Coast. Set both along Alberta’s Athabasca River and in a small town in northern New Brunswick, the play was inspired by the train derailment tragedy that occurred in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, in 2013, as well as the social, environmental, and economic impact of the Alberta oil sands and the ongoing debate over oil production and transportation in Canada.

Earlier this year, Lac/Athabasca received the Dorothy White Award for Second Prize in Ottawa Little Theatre’s National Playwriting Contest for 2015, as well as Second Prize in the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Contest, which is mounted every second year by Queen’s University and attracts scripts from many of the nation’s top playwrights. The play was selected for production at this August’s SummerWorks Theatre Festival in Toronto, one of Canada’s most prestigious juried performance festivals, where it attracted national media attention and earned rave reviews, including selections from NOW Magazine as one of its “Best of the Fest” and for “Best Ensemble.”

Lac/Athabasca features performances by Jake Martin, Rebekah Chasse, Alex Donovan, Jean-Michel Cliche, and Emily Bosse, who each play multiple roles in the play’s several interwoven plotlines.

The play also features an original score by Fredericton musician/composer Eric Hill and visual/projection design by Mike Johnston.

For more information on the Fredericton run of Lac/Athabasca, phone 458-7406 or email nbacts@unb.ca