Win tickets to The Boy Who Had a Mother (Vancouver International Fringe Festival)
Loyal readers of my blog may remember that I co-organized Mental Health Camp Vancouver (2009 and 2010) with my good friend Isabella Mori. For obvious reasons, I have an interest and somewhat of a stake in mental health issues (a few of my close friends have battled a number of mental illnesses including depression, bipolar, and eating disorders, and some of them continue to fight a few of those). So when Theatre Asylum invited me to give away tickets to their Vancouver International Fringe Festival show “The Boy Who Had a Mother”, I definitely wanted to showcase them.
A young man grows up with a mentally ill mother and an ill-prepared father. We follow his life from conception to adulthood when he decides to move back into his mother’s house to help save her from herself. But it may be him who needs saving.
You can find out more about this production here (Asylum Theatre website and Twitter). Asylum Theatre was founded in 2009 by husband and wife team
Jeff McMahan and Liz Wilton. Based in Vancouver, BC, and their mission is to provide playwrights, actors, designers and other theatre professionals who are affected by physical and mental illness an opportunity to explore their craft in a supportive setting. The Boy Who Had A Mother marks Asylum’s second production following 2009’s The Man Who Couldn’t Deliver which was presented in the 25th Vancouver International Fringe Festival at Pacific Theatre.
The Boy Who Had a Mother takes place at Studio 16 (1555 W 7th Ave) on the following dates/times:
Friday, September 10 – 8:25pm
Saturday, September 11 – 9:40pm
Sunday, September 12 – 2:35pm
Wednesday, September 15 – 9:20pm
Friday, September 17 – 5:00pm
Saturday, September 18 – 3:45pm
Tickets: Available by visiting the Vancouver Fringe website, or by visiting the Fringe Box Office at 1592 Johnston Street on Granville Island. Only $10 for weekday shows & $12 for weekend shows
To increase exposure of all the Fringe shows I’ve been offered tickets for, I’ll be running Twitter-only contests. For a chance to win tickets to The Boy Who Had a Mother, you can tweet the following:
I want to win tickets from @hummingbird604 and @AsylumTheatre to The Boy Who Had a Mother @VanFringe. More info here http://is.gd/eX8Dh
I will draw all winners to my Fringe Festival shows on Wednesday September 8th at 10am, so stay tuned!
You can enter to win more tickets to other shows as well as read my coverage of the Vancouver International Fringe Festival by clicking here. Choose from a number of giveaways I have active on my site. Good luck!
