November 25, 2019 at 12:45pm

Belfry@UVic with Estelle Shook

Artistic and Managing Director of Caravan Farm Theatre  & Director of Every Brilliant thing at the Belfry Theatre 

Join Director Estelle Shook, Director of the Belfry’s production of Every Brilliant Thing for a conversation with Michael Elliott. 

Artistic Director Michael Shamata says of this play, ‘This is simply on of the most moving pieces of theatre I have ever seen.  It is so full of life, and pain, and joy, and yearning – it overflows with humanity. And it’s remarkable use of the audience as participants in the storytelling makes for a one-of-a-kind, unforgettable experience”.

Estelle Shook is the Artistic and Managing Director of BC’s Nationally acclaimed Caravan Farm Theatre. Estelle Shook has produced, developed, and directed over thirty outdoor productions for the company. Highlights include The Ballad of Weedy Peetstraw, a “Bluegrass Opera” based on Goethe’s Faust by Peter Anderson and John Millard; Cowboy King and IOU Land, two western tragedies by Linz Kenyon; Shakespeare’s Macbeth and King Lear, and Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, each of which employed the use of the famous Caravan Clydesdale horses as stage machinery; and Everyone, a modern morality play in seven horse drawn acts created with six Vancouver theatre companies. 

Read more about Caravan Farm here.