Touchstone Theatre Presents
Yaga
By Kat Sandler
The mysterious disappearance and suspected murder of a college bad boy leads a local small-town sheriff, a young private detective, and a university professor with a taste for younger men into a labyrinth of secret lives, ancient magic, and multiple suspects.
World premiering to critical acclaim at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre in 2019, Yaga is the revisioning of a legendary folk anti-hero through Sandler’s razor-sharp feminist wit. Part thriller, part comedy, part nightmare fairy-tale, Yaga leads us into an unforgettable world of trickery and revenge – just in time for Halloween!
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Pictured: Colleen Wheeler. Photo Illustration by Emily Cooper
DATE
Oct 27 - Nov 5, 2023 (Opening Night: Fri, Oct 28)
WHERE
Historic Theatre, The Cultch - 1895 Venables St
SHOWTIMES: Oct 27 - Nov 5, 2022
Thurs, October 27 at 7:30PM – PREVIEW
Fri, October 28 at 7:30PM – OPENING NIGHT
Sat, October 29 at 2PM & 7:30PM
Sun, October 30 at 3PM
Tues, November 1 at 7:30PM – Talkback Tuesday
Wed, November 2 at 7:30PM
Thurs, November 3 @ 7:30PM
Fri, November 4 at 7:30PM
Sat, November 5 at 2PM & 7:30PM
ADVISORY
This show contains adult themes and sexual references.
Age 15-Up
Smoke machine
CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
Director
Roy Surette
Starring
Colleen Wheeler
Genevieve Fleming
Aidan Correia
Set Designer
Ryan Cormack
Lighting Designer
Hina Nishioka
Sound Designer
Mary Jane Coomber
Costume Designer
Sheila White
Stage Manager
Stephen Courtenay
Assistant Stage Manager
Rachel Brew
TD/Production Manager
Alistair Wallace
Props Sourcer & Builder
Ariel Slack
Fight Coach
Michael Kovac
Intimacy Coach
Lisa Goebel
Colleen Wheeler
Performer
Colleen is a multiple award winning actress originally from Toronto, Ontario, who now makes her home in North Vancouver, BC. She has performed in over 75 stage productions in theatres across Canada and has had roles in over 40 film and television shows. The film production company she runs with her partner (Heelfactory Film) recently released their first feature film “Attic Trunk”. Colleen is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s B.F.A. (Acting) Program.
Genevieve Fleming
Performer
Genevieve is an actor, director, and producer raised on the unsurrendered ancestral homelands of the Mi’kmaq people called Mi’kma’ki. Recent highlights include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bard on the Beach), Clean/Espejos (Neworld), The Twelve Dates of Christmas (Arts Club), The Drowning Girls (WCT), and Wet (ITSAZOO). Genevieve is the recipient of two Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards and several nominations for performance, and the Ray Michal Award for direction. She is a graduate of Mount Allison University and Studio 58. Before joining Touchstone with Yaga, you will find Genevieve at The Café with ITSAZOO.
Aidan Correia
Performer
Aidan is eager to make his Vancouver stage debut as Rapp in Touchstone’s production of Yaga. After graduating from UVic’s Phoenix Theatre where his selected credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Summer and Smoke and Mozart in Amadeus he moved to Vancouver where he has been working in film and television. He is fired up to be back on stage once again! Outside of acting he loves writing, playing soccer, spending time at the beach and with his cat Lucky.
Kat Sandler – Playwright
Kat Sandler is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, director and the Artistic Director of Theatre Brouhaha in Toronto. She has staged seventeen of her original plays in the last eight years, including most recently, Yaga (Tarragon Theatre) and the simultaneous double bill of The Party and The Candidate (The Citadel Theatre), where the same cast raced back and forth between two theatres to perform in two simultaneous political farces, and Late Night, a theatre/tv hybrid produced with Moses Znaimer that recently aired on VisionTV. Her play, Mustard (Tarragon Theatre) won the Dora Award for Best New Play, and Bang Bang and Yaga were nominated for the same award. She won the Austen Film Festival’s inaugural Fiction Podcast Award for How To Build a Fire, and has been nominated for Sterling Awards, the Carol Bolt Award and the Cayle Chernin Award. Kat attended the Canadian Film Centre and eOne’s inaugural Adaptation Lab. She has written for Kim’s Convenience, and written fiction podcasts for The Koffler Centre, CBC’s PlayMe and TwoUp’s Limetown. She has various film and television projects in development with eOne, TB Content, Scythia Films, Stellar Citizens and the Donaldson Company. Kat is a graduate of Queen’s University.
