2022-23 Season

FF: A fast-forward history

December 2022

Featuring "The Fifteen Minute Hamlet"

Thornton Wilder's "The Long Christmas Dinner" compressd 90 years of family history into 25 minutes. Tom Stoppard's "The Fifteen Minute Hamlet" captured the Bard in full sprint. Other pieces, and the debut of VHS's improv troupe, rounded out an evening of instant theatre.

Alice in Wonderland 

March 2023

This imaginative romp took two Alices on mysterious pathways through Lewis Carroll's world. Starting with three weeks of workshops, we created a version that Liz Shepherd of the Vashon Maury-Island Beachcomber called "a demanding, boldly physical, complex and comic show, one the students have embraced as a true ensemble."

The Witch of Edmonton

May 2023

Student author Phoebe Ray reworked the 1621 play about witches into a modern take that blended humor with darkness. Following the original story freely, this retelling focuses on Elizabeth Sawyer, a woman of Edmonton so tired of being accused of witchcraft that she summons her familiar, a black dog named Old Tom, and lets the witchcraft commence.