Belfry play gives voice to Victoria’s homeless

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Home is a Beautiful Word is now on at the Belfry. Here’s what the Times Colonist had to say about it.

With Home is a Beautiful Word, Victoria playwright Joel Bernbaum and the Belfry Theatre may well make theatre history. As far as director Michael Shamata knows, this is Canada’s first verbatim theatre play about the homeless. Verbatim theatre scripts such as Home is a Beautiful Word are created using words uttered by real people.

Read the article: Belfry play gives voice to Victoria’s homeless

Source: Times Colonist

Author: Adrian Chamberlain

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