Feb 21 – 2:00 pm |Â Livestream only
A Rehearsed Play Reading of The Replacement Wife by award-winning Vancouver playwright, Aaron Bushkowsky.
Presented by Off the Page in association with the PHT Creative Hub Co-operative.
Following a dire cancer prognosis, a married woman matches up her lonely husband with her best friend before heading off for risky treatment in Mexico, not expecting to return. After six months of experimental treatment she is cured and returns, only to find her husband is now happily with her long-time and wealthy best friend.
Cast:
- Kevin Crofton
- Nick Heffelfinger
- Janet Hodgkinson
- Jessie Liang
- Wanda Nowicki
Aaron Bushkowsky, Playwright
Aaron Bushkowsky is a Vancouver writer with more than 30 award-winning play productions to his name. His books have been nominated for numerous awards including the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour Writing in Canada. He is currently writing the play version of  The Murdoch Mysteries — Canada’s current longest running TV series. Aaron has been nominated for writing awards in four genres: film-writing, poetry, drama, and fiction. He has published eight books with four different publishers and is in demand at various writers festivals and readings across Canada. His plays have been produced by many Vancouver area theatres including The Arts Club and Rumble Theatre… as well as the now defunct Vancouver Playhouse.
Off the Page
Originally inspired by playwright David King, Off the Page is a play reading series first held at the historic Heritage Playhouse in Gibsons BC in 2017.  Actors read plays written by Lower Mainland playwrights who attend the reading. Together with the cast, they open the floor to audience members for questions and comments in post-show talkback sessions. After three years of enthusiastic response from audiences, actors and playwrights, producers Wanda Nowicki and Janet Hodgkinson feel confident that expansion to Presentation House Theatre is a good move!
Produced with the co-operation of the UBCP/ACTRA