One of St. Albert’s up and coming triple threat performers, Grace Bokenfohr, is part of the Citadel Theatre’s Young Acting Company presenting Polaroid Stories.
The Grade 12 Bellerose High student was part of St. Albert Children’s Theatre for five seasons and now studies voice under the wing of Kim Mattice Wanat, artistic director of Opera Nuova.
This is Bokenfohr’s second year with the Young Acting Company. She previously earned credits in Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Carol and The Sound of Music.
In this production, Bokenfohr applies her talents to a very different role from past characters. Her character is the Skinhead Girl.
Directed by Wayne Paquette, Polaroid Stories delivers a gut-punch of love lost, violence, homelessness and addiction.
Playwright Naomi Iizuka has borrowed from Ovid’s Metamorphosis. She weaves reworked Greek mythical tales and the dark modern world in a series of vignettes, each a snapshot of prostitutes, drug dealers, their unfortunate clients and their regrettable fates.
Watching depressed and down-on-their-luck characters may not be the best choice for a romantic date. But it still has the power to hypnotize.
Polaroid Stories plays from May 26 to 28 at the Citadel, 9828 – 101 A Ave. Cabaret tickets are $23. Call 780-425-1820 or go online to citadeltheatre.com.
One of Canada’s hottest young contemporary dance companies is coming to Edmonton with a new choreography. Company 605 in partnership with Brian Webb Dance Company, presents Vital Few, a collective creation of six performers that use their individual expressions and movements to build a group sculpture.
Directed by co-artistic director Lisa Gelley and Alberta-born Josh Martin, Vital Few explores the struggle of human co-existence in a limited amount of space.
One of the show’s defining elements is dramatic lighting, and the athletic, fast-paced and playful company has attracted hip-hop fans, families, classical dance lovers and the wider contemporary arts community.
Vital Few runs May 26 and 27 at 8 p.m. at the Timms Centre for the Arts, 112 St. and 87 Ave. Tickets are $27 to $37.50 and are available at 780-420-1757 or through tixonthesquare.ca.
