And Bella Sang With Us, a stylish ‘cop’ play with a dark and wicked sense of humour and a shot of song, celebrates two of Canada’s unsung pioneers: Constables Lurancy Harris and Minnie Miller, Vancouver’s first women police officers
Date/Time: Jan 4 2017, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Vancouver, Firehall Arts Centre | Event calendarCost: $28.00
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Ever identify with the underdog? Find yourself struggling to make a difference, be taken seriously or simply make yourself seen and heard?
It’s 1912. Constables Harris and Miller arrive in the area now known as Vancouver’s Downtown East Side/Chinatown to deal with ‘the female morality issue’. They run smack into societal and family pressures, political corruption, ‘The Lord of the Bawdy Houses’, and the volatile Bella.
Will the two Constables be able to save a young woman from a life on the streets? Will they find their way in a police department and a city not used to female authority figures? Will running after criminals while wearing floor-length skirts get easier?
“An imaginative re-telling of an important piece of forgotten Vancouver history filled with humour and intrigue.” – Lynna Goldhar Smith, Director of Fringe smash-hit Dirty Old Woman
A Firehall Arts Centre Presentation in association with And Bella Collective
Direction | Sarah Rodgers, Ian Harmon
Cast | Leanna Brodie, Sarah Louise Turner, Simon Webb, Beatrice Zeilinger, Agnes Tong
Pianist | Patrick Courtin
Costumes | Barbara Clayden
Set | Brian Ball
Lighting | Kyla Gardiner
Stage Manager | Breanne Harmon
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