{"id":5356,"date":"2014-03-27T04:10:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T11:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=5356"},"modified":"2014-03-27T04:10:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T11:10:40","slug":"controversial-harper-satire-makes-vancouver-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/27\/controversial-harper-satire-makes-vancouver-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Harper Satire Makes Vancouver Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5359\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Proud_image-website1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5359\" alt=\"PHOTO FROM FIREHALL ARTS CENTRE\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Proud_image-website1.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Proud_image-website1.jpg 630w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Proud_image-website1-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO FROM <a href=\"http:\/\/firehallartscentre.ca\/onstage\/proud\/\">FIREHALL ARTS CENTRE<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>[4 out of 4 stars]\u00a0<\/i>It makes you proud of Canadian theatre\u2026 Dazzlingly witty, surgically precise and scathingly satirical.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<i>Toronto Star\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER, BC &#8211; The Firehall Arts Centre brings to Vancouver \u2018one of Canada\u2019s most controversial and comic plays in recent years\u2019 (<i>Vancouver Sun<\/i>).\u00a0PROUD\u00a0is\u00a0Michael Healey\u2019s satire of Canada\u2019s Prime Minister that has be making headlines since a Toronto theatre dumped the play out of fear of a libel suit. This original political comedy stars\u00a0Andrew Wheeler\u00a0as the PM and is directed by\u00a0Donna Spencer, (runs\u00a0April 5-26).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very witty, relevant and insightful play that provides a behind-the-scenes look at how government functions. It\u2019s an intelligently written and researched piece that I believe will provoke a lot of thought and discussion amongst audiences\u201d, says the Firehall\u2019s Artistic Producer Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>PROUD\u00a0is a smart and sexy political satire that imagines a different outcome to the last Federal election \u2013 the Tories took Quebec and won a huge majority. A young, attractive and inexperienced female MP provides the Prime Minister with a new tool in his arsenal, but it soon becomes apparent that there is more to her than meets the eye. In amongst the political manoeuvring and backroom machinations emerges a surprising, complex and very funny portrait of the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Jessie Award winning Vancouver actor\u00a0Andrew Wheeler\u00a0will tackle his biggest role yet, portraying a Prime Minister who bears a remarkable resemblance to the Right Honourable Stephen Harper.\u00a0Craig Erickson\u00a0will play Harper\u2019s Machiavellian chief of staff and\u00a0Emmelia Gordon\u00a0(<i>Dissolve, Progressive Polygamists<\/i>) will play the novice MP who gets caught in their cross hairs.<\/p>\n<p>PROUD\u00a0was initially written for the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto as part of a trilogy of shows by then playwright-in-residence Healey, but was controversially dumped by the theatre over alleged concerns by a board member that the play would be deemed libellous. The show was later produced in Toronto by Healey himself and then in Ottawa, and a third production is currently on at the Belfry Theatre in Victoria.<i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>MORE INFO:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/firehallartscentre.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">firehallartscentre.ca<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"tel:604%20689%200691\" target=\"_blank\">604 689 0691<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201c[4 out of 4 stars]\u00a0It makes you proud of Canadian theatre\u2026 Dazzlingly witty, surgically precise and scathingly satirical.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Toronto Star\u00a0 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":5357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,105],"tags":[1446],"class_list":["post-5356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-events","tag-proud","mauthors-firehall-arts-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}