The Frontliners – Evergreen Cultural Centre

May 13 – 17 | 7:30PM + 3PM Sat

Co-presented by Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre & Blackout Art Society
by Zahida Rahemtulla
Winner of a Playwrights Guild of Canada Tom Hendry Award, Theatre BC’s Play of Special Merit Award, and the Fringe New Play Prize, The Frontliners is a comedic drama set in January 2016 when Canada has just expedited 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada. Three employees stationed at an East Van hotel are tasked with housing Syrian families against an impossible rental market. As the workers pull overtime hours to find homes, they must also navigate a frenzy of journalists, do-gooder groups, bureaucracy, impossible amounts of donations, angry landlords, hotel staff, trolls, and the hopes and wishes of families themselves, all of which chaotically, tragically, and comedically intersect with the frontlines.

“Captures, with economy, humour, and heart, the intense rollercoaster ride of working in a refugee placement agency during a housing crisis.” – Voaden Prize in Playwriting

The Frontliners is the winner of Playwrights Theatre Centre’s New Play in Development Prize 2022, a recipient of the national 2021 Playwrights Guild of Canada RBC Emerging Playwright Award, Theatre BC’s 2020 Play of Special Merit Award, and the runner-up for the prestigious 2021 National Voaden Prize in Playwriting.

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