Throughout August, the Vancouver City Opera’s Summer Serenades series has been offering free outdoor matineé performances on Fridays and weekends at the Sun Yat-Sen Courtyard in Chinatown, Milton Wong Plaza in the Olympic Village and Roundhouse Turntable Plaza in Yaletown.
Just east of the Museum of Anthropology, a small slope off the sidewalk lining Northwest Marine Drive leads down to Trail 3 of Pacific Spirit Park.
Translation can be heavy and even traumatic emotional labour that children are often not fully prepared to perform.
Translating a millennia-old theatrical work both into contemporary language and onto the contemporary stage is no small task, and one that requires immense creativity and artistic discretion.