Forget Me Not
Where Poetry, Song and Dance Collide
Micaele Johnson, Smithers native, Theatre Royal and Barkerville’s weetheart for 5 seasons opens her one woman show at the Sunset Theatre in Wells BC. Forget Me Not takes us on her journey as a young woman leaving the north to explore the greater landscape of the west and the lights of the big city through poetry, song and dance. Forget Me Not encompasses Micaele’s own poetry and song while she dances to music that speaks to her heart,informs her journey and inspires her to dance.
A prolific tap dancer, Micaele started studying tap at the age of 12 after sustaining a major injury during figure-skating training. After a year at Canadian College Performing Arts her passion for dance and performing brought her to Barkerville where she performed 5 seasons at Theatre Royal. Her thirst for knowledge and excellence propelled her to continue her studies at Circle in the Square in New York City. Micaele fell in love with the big lights and dreams of Broadway but like many Canadians was required had to come back home before the dream was sated. Coming back to Vancouver, Micaele interrupted the role of the Station Mistress for Storyeum,danced her way through West Side Story at Royal City Musical Theatre under the musical direction of the late Lloyd Nicholson,played Nurse Monika in The Physicists for Genus Theatre and portrayed a Hurdy Gurdy Girl in the silent film Little Heaven and Earth.
Co-created and directed by Karen Jeffery Forget Me Not paints the picture of the inner landscape of leaving home to find your dreams, embracing the world and learning that sometimes the best things in life are found in your own back yard. Semi – autobiographical using Micaele’s writing and choreography, theatrical license and interpretation has been engaged to lace together beautiful and mysterious mosaics of life and love. Professional Actress, Singer, Producer, Stage-manager and Executive Director, For-Me-Not is Karen Jeffery’s creation-directorial debut which fulfills another dream of the Sunset Theatre when she bought it over 10 years ago.
Victorian Street Music
Take a step back in time to the Victorian era as Danette Boucher, James Douglas, Andrew Hamilton, Lynnette Candy and JP Winslow dust off some old Barkerville Street songs. Clap your hands and stomp your feet and enjoy a family friendly evening of music and memories. All Welcome.
The Fred Wells Show
By James Douglas and Danette Boucher
Fred Wells lives on! James Douglas is returning in the role that gave the town its name– The Fred Wells Show. A popular original production depicting the life and times of the man that built the town and recreated the area in the 1930’s.
As the great depression fell like a fog of gloom over Canada in the 1930’s one tiny pocket of prosperity shone like a beacon of hope high in the Cariboo Mountains. An introverted but charismatic and determined prospector called Fred Marshall Wells had a hunch that there was still gold to be found in the area where British Columbia’s great Cariboo Gold Rush had once boomed in the 1860’s. And he was right – the second caribou Gold Rush had begin.
The Fred Wells Show emerges as the inner thoughts of a man of few words. It is an exploration of a person who loved to be alone with the land, and who was fiercely compelled to see what lay within it. It is also a snapshot of a precise moment in BC history – a moment when Fred wells suddenly found himself in a position to save a collection of souls from the jaws of the greatest depression of the modern age.
“We cannot believe our luck. As the world sinks in to a chasm of despair we at the Cariboo Gold Quartz find ourselves sitting right in God’s pocket.”
No Score? No Script? No problem. Hosted by The Sunset Theatre. Starring You
A colourful film will be shown with the sound turned off. You are invited to improvise the score. You are invited to improvise the dialogue. This delightful drop-in-when-you-like event could go anywhere. It’s your call. Aaaaand “Action!”