Bella Luz by Alexandra Lainfiesta
Don’t miss the world premiere of a bold, heartfelt and fast-paced story that flips the script on the Canadian immigrant dream
Date/Time: Jan 30 2027, 2:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Burnaby, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts | Event calendar6450 Deer Lake Avenue
P: 604-205-3000
Tickets
Cost: $30.00
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Produced by Ruby Slippers Theatre and SkirtsAfire Festival in association with Theatre Network.
Inventive. Heartfelt. Defiant.
What if your future depended on winning a game designed for you to fail?
A recipient of the Arts Club Theatre Company’s Silver Commission, part of Ruby Slippers Theatre’s 2026 Advance Theatre Festival, and written by Lieutenant Governor’s Arts and Music Award-winner Alexandra Lainfiesta, Bella Luz is a fierce, fast-paced, and inventive dive into the world of the modern immigrant experience.
Sumailla is an unstoppable dancer who takes a job in the high-octane film stunt industry to build a life in Canada. But as her on-set life directly collides with her family's reality back home in Guatemala, Sumailla wrestles with the moral compromises needed to secure her future in Canada.
Blending razor-sharp parody and bold theatrical energy, Bella Luz exposes the contradictions of an immigrant’s experience in Canada with equal parts humor and heart.
Don't miss your chance to be the very first to experience this clever, captivating new Canadian work produced by Ruby Slippers Theatre and SkirtsAfire, presented by the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Presentation House Theatre, Blackout Arts Society, and Theatre Network.
Audience Advisory
Strong language, discussions of death, and abuse of power dynamics.
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