The stage might was well be turned 180 degrees for the Stage 43 production of Play On!
The comedy offers a rare glimpse of what goes on behind the curtain as a fictitious community theatre group called the Last Chance Players tries to save money by accepting the work from novice playwright, who is one of their members.
The curtain comes up Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., along with a Sunday 2 p.m. matinee, at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre. The show, whose cast and crew are followed through several ill-starred rehearsals while the playwright continuously revises his script, also runs May 2 to 5 at 8 p.m., also at ECC.
"The wonderful thing about it is I picked out all the characters and was able to draw a lot of fun from that," said the play's director Brooke Jewell. "It's very realistic, too. I think when you pull from real life, that evolution brings a special talent to the show.
"You get to see everything that happens behind the scenes. We hide nothing."
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