Post-Show Thoughts: True Crime, presented by The Ecstasy
Saturday, April 25, 2026 ~ Vancouver, BC Paraphrasing Noel Coward: 'I went to a marvelous play'. For me, the play is/was about the parallels and overlaps between what actors do and what con artists do. So much of each is about becoming. Becoming someone else. Inventing them. Inhabiting them. Living as them for a period of time ranging from a few moments to a lifetime, on a case-by-case basis. Why is that? Other than the obvious: monetary reasons. There are more personal, deeper, basic ones: to be loved, adored, power/ego, opportunity knocked, vocation/gravity, you name it. And when you’re both the writer and actor*, weaving in enough (or more) actual truth to make the story sound plausible, how as an audience member do you discern what is fact from fiction? After all, whether actor or grifter, it’s all REAL. It has to be, otherwise your audience, which in an intimate space such as Room 216 in Vancouver's old City Centre Motor Hotel building, includes people...