A box office attendant at the Evergreen Cultural Centre will be on stage at the Coquitlam venue on Friday night to show her puppetry skills.
Randi Edmundson plays the princess character in Sleeping Beauty Dreams, a Canadian premiere by Marionetas de la Esquina of Mexico in collaboration with Presentation House of North Vancouver.
“I’m very excited to share this show with the team at Evergreen,” Edmundson told The Tri-City News last week. “It’s a very special show… and we are very pleased that Marionetas taught us their production.”
The Vancouver resident started the craft while she was an undergrad at UVic. Four years ago, she studied with The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, an internationally renowned puppet theatre company from Calgary, while at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity — a program that “really opened my mind to what puppet actors can do versus what regular actors can’t do.”
In puppetry, she said, “the audience has to participate and they have to believe that object is alive and thinking. The audience has to invest and that’s a wonderful feeling.”
• Tickets for Sleeping Beauty Dreams on Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. are a pay-what-you-can-admission price. Call 604-927-6555 or visit evergreenculturalcentre.ca. The show is sponsored by Westminster Savings as part of Evergreen’s Family Series.
