Liberation Days

Two Planks and a Passion Theatre Company is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, with 10 of them performing outdoor "theatre off the grid" at the Ross Creek Arts Centre. So you won't be surprised to hear the mainstage production of Liberation Days is fantastic, absolutely worth making a trip to the Valley for. The story is a wartime romance set it Europe, where a chipper Canadian soldier meets a sad Dutch woman who has lost the men in her life to the war. Coast critic Kate Watson writes that “the props are intentionally sparse—a war office is evoked by a typewriter and chair, the parson’s home by a desk, doorsteps by a simple flagstone—but the natural setting is so evocative and immersive that the mind paints the appropriate set. It is pure magic.”