Playwrights Theatre Centre

The Process presents
Crossing
by C.E. Gatchalian on Friday January 23 at 8 pm

Crossing dramatizes the tormented relationship of Lucy, a young mother, and Kieren, her teenage son. Throughout the course of an evening, they engage in sadistic memory games, intent to push the other closer to the edge through peek-a-boo revelations of past horrible truths. Religious overtones are very strong in the play, particularly in its structure, which is based largely on the mass proper for Good Friday. The play also wrestles with the Easter archetype, and the grand Christian themes of the death and resurrection of Christ.

"Gatchalian is well on his way to making his mark in contemporary drama." Charlie Cho, CBC Radio

C.E. GATCHALIAN: Biography
Gatchalian¹s first play, Motifs & Repetitions, aired on Canada's Bravo! Channel in 1997 and on the Knowledge Network in 1998. His play, Claire, was produced in Vancouver in 1999. He is a freelance journalist for Xtra! West, the Georgia Straight, and the Vancouver Sun, and his fiction and poetry have appeared in publications including MAS-Zine, the Muse Apprentice Guild and shampoo. His work appeared in the literary anthology Chasing Halley¹s Comet (Laughing Willow Books, 1995) and his first book, Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays, was published in 2003. Gatchalian is a graduate of the UBC Creative Writing program. (BFA,1996; MFA,2003).

"If a writer expunges demons by putting them down on paper, Gatchalian's young soul must now be clean as a whistle...Claire is evidence of greater, and no doubt even more disturbing, things to come from the writer." Peter Birnie, The Vancouver Sun

Playwrights Theatre Centre Studio
The Process: Friday January 23 @ 8 pm: Crossing by C. E. Gatchalian
PTC Studio is located at Festival House, Top Floor, 1398 Cartwright Street, Granville Island
Admission by donation. For more information: 604.685.6228 or plays@playwrightstheatre.com