The Agonizing Decision to Yank a Play in Vancouver - The Tyee

What can art offer in times of conflict? ANNOUNCEMENTS, EVENTS & MORE FROM TYEE AND SELECT PARTNERS What’s Up Docs? Female filmmakers find big ideas in even the smallest subjects in documentaries at VIFF Centre this month. The question arose with startling timeliness when The Runner, a much-awarded production from Toronto playwright Christopher Morris and Human Cargo Theatre company, which follows the story of an Orthodox Jewish man whose life is changed when he provides medical care for a young woman accused of stabbing an Israeli soldier, was cancelled at the Belfry Theatre in Victoria ea…