Advance Theatre - The Consent Club
When
Occurs on
Friday January 31 2025
Approximate running time: 1 hour and 30 minutes
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Ruby Slippers Theatre in association with The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and Playwrights Guild of Canada present The Advance Theatre Festival: Advancing the Radically Inclusive Stage. Five Staged Readings over Five Days
THE CONSENT CLUB
Playwright: Carmen Aguirre
*READING OF PLAY ONLY*
Join us for a reading of the play "The Consent Club", an adaptation of Moliere's The Learned Ladies. Set on a North American university campus, this satire about zealotry, hypocritical puritanism, and sexual paranoia follows our horny heroine Anita as she tries to get laid at the height of the #MeToo movement. Told from the lens of a Latina socialist feminist who is a refugee and a survivor of childhood rape, this controversial and hilarious play takes on the essentialization of women as victims and men as predators.
BIO: Carmen Aguirre is a Chilean-Canadian award-winning theatre artist and author. She is an Electric Company Theatre Core Artist and has written and co-written over twenty-five plays and the #1international bestseller Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter (2012 CBC Canada Reads winner), and its bestselling sequel, Mexican Hooker #1 and My Other Roles Since the Revolution. Her new play Fire Never Dies: The Tina Modotti Project will premiere in the 25/26 season in Vancouver. She has three other plays in development across Canada. Carmen has over eighty film, television, and stage acting credits, including her Leo-nominated lead role in the independent Feature Bella Ciao!, a series regular on the showtime series Endgame, and memorable roles in Riverdale, the Sundance-winning feature film Quinceanera, and Best In Show. She can currently be seen in Family Law as Victor Garber’s ex-wife and rival lawyer, and in the upcoming season six of Virgin River playing a colleague of Doc’s. She is the recipient of the 2011 UBCP Lorena Gale Woman of Distinction Award, the 2014 Betty Mitchell Award for her outstanding theatre performance in The Motherfucker With The Hat, and was named one of the 10 Most Influential Hispanic Canadians by the Canadian Hispanic Business Alliance in 2014. Carmen is a graduate of Studio 58. Carmenaguirre.ca
Location: Room 103
All tickets $15.00
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Purchase 3 different “Shadbolt Presents” shows for the same Patron and receive a special subscription price of $5.00 off per ticket . Available by phone only. Shows $25 and under can be included as one of the three required for subscription however they will not receive the $5.00 discount. Not included: Arts Club on Tour and Jazz @ the Bolt
Please contact the Box Office if you require accessible seating or have ticketing or subscription questions. 604.205.3000
No refunds on tickets. 2.00 fee per ticket for exchanges
THE CONSENT CLUB
Playwright: Carmen Aguirre
*READING OF PLAY ONLY*
Join us for a reading of the play "The Consent Club", an adaptation of Moliere's The Learned Ladies. Set on a North American university campus, this satire about zealotry, hypocritical puritanism, and sexual paranoia follows our horny heroine Anita as she tries to get laid at the height of the #MeToo movement. Told from the lens of a Latina socialist feminist who is a refugee and a survivor of childhood rape, this controversial and hilarious play takes on the essentialization of women as victims and men as predators.
BIO: Carmen Aguirre is a Chilean-Canadian award-winning theatre artist and author. She is an Electric Company Theatre Core Artist and has written and co-written over twenty-five plays and the #1international bestseller Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter (2012 CBC Canada Reads winner), and its bestselling sequel, Mexican Hooker #1 and My Other Roles Since the Revolution. Her new play Fire Never Dies: The Tina Modotti Project will premiere in the 25/26 season in Vancouver. She has three other plays in development across Canada. Carmen has over eighty film, television, and stage acting credits, including her Leo-nominated lead role in the independent Feature Bella Ciao!, a series regular on the showtime series Endgame, and memorable roles in Riverdale, the Sundance-winning feature film Quinceanera, and Best In Show. She can currently be seen in Family Law as Victor Garber’s ex-wife and rival lawyer, and in the upcoming season six of Virgin River playing a colleague of Doc’s. She is the recipient of the 2011 UBCP Lorena Gale Woman of Distinction Award, the 2014 Betty Mitchell Award for her outstanding theatre performance in The Motherfucker With The Hat, and was named one of the 10 Most Influential Hispanic Canadians by the Canadian Hispanic Business Alliance in 2014. Carmen is a graduate of Studio 58. Carmenaguirre.ca
Location: Room 103
All tickets $15.00
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Purchase 3 different “Shadbolt Presents” shows for the same Patron and receive a special subscription price of $5.00 off per ticket . Available by phone only. Shows $25 and under can be included as one of the three required for subscription however they will not receive the $5.00 discount. Not included: Arts Club on Tour and Jazz @ the Bolt
Please contact the Box Office if you require accessible seating or have ticketing or subscription questions. 604.205.3000
No refunds on tickets. 2.00 fee per ticket for exchanges