The UBC campus of five years ago was a strange place. There were roads where there shouldn't be roads and random open lawns that have since been supplanted by towering, concrete residences and fancy new lecture halls.
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The structure of the play consists of 59 unconnected scenes, all strung together in rapid-fire succession and sporting 120 characters. There is a frenetic energy that runs through the whole of the play and keeps momentum until the very end.
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2016 has been bad. I have never looked to the end of the year with more excitement, and looked back on what happened with more exhaustion and cynicism. Every month felt like a knockout punch and every time we got up, the next one swiftly followed.
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If Halloween's end left you still longing to dress up in your carefully prepared costume and go out like it's nobody's business, Fan Expo Vancouver might be just what you need. Three days is hardly enough time to see everything on offer.
The performers consist of UBC alumni who collectively began rehearsing for the play some time in January, meeting several times a week to prepare. Amongst those involved in the production are Deb Pickman and Gerald Vanderwoude.
I have returned — summoned back once more to carry out my burdensome mandate of educating the masses of hungry, cultureless despots under the tragic illusion that wine can be consumed with ice and that Michael Bay makes good, innocently fun movies.
Beyond a limit of 30 lines, we have put no other restrictions on your poems. Submit your most wild experiments or traditional sonnets. We will read all of them and keep open minds. Be as creative and fearless as you can be!
The play wastes no time in getting straight into the meat of the plot. Edward II is crowned king and then the somewhat shady character of Gaveston takes the stage for a commanding monologue, dealt with great physicality by Daniel Curalli.