A Coquitlam theatre director and producer will show Dying City at the Vancouver Fringe Festival next month.
Tanya Mathivanan of Aenigma Theatre will see the play — penned by Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Christopher Shinn — run from Sept. 9 to 17 at the Culture Lab at The Cultch (1895 Venables St., Vancouver) as part of the Dramatic Works Series. It’s the third year her company has been involved in that category, previously performing The Zoo Story and Blackbird.
“We believe that, given the state of current affairs in the world, Dying City is quite an important and timely piece,” Mathivanan wrote last week to The Tri-City News.
Set in New York City post 9/11, the narrative is about grief staged against the political landscape of war and conflict in Iraq.
New Westminster actor Garland Chang (Peter/Craig) portrays the lead.
“Aenigma Theatre is always dedicated to providing opportunities for young artists to showcase their abilities in plays that are not always widely produced but are full of rich and nuanced characters,” Mathivanan said. “With the help of the Vancouver Fringe Festival, we have seized this opportunity to come together to create a piece that we feel quite passionately about.”
