Date: June 22 to July 3, 2011
Location: Vancouver East Cultural Centre (The Cultch)
Website: www.theatreintheraw.ca
Yippies In Love is an original staged musical. It’s an insider view of the turbulent counter-culture days of Vancouver in the early 1970s. The Yippies were a movement with theatricality, wide-ranging social critique that had a lasting impact on the grass-roots popular political activity in Canada and US. The play focuses on a time of great civic involvement/ social concern among the city’s youth. In a few short years, the Yippie movement left a legacy that continues to this day. The issues addressed continue to enrich the lives of Vancouverites, and 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of events depicted in the play. This production celebrates the often unsung/ misunderstood contributions of the individual, celebrating Vancouver as a place where such contributions were and still are possible.
Tickets for this show will be available starting May 23, 2011. Visit www.theatreintheraw.ca/tickets.html for details.
With support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program and the participation of the Government of Canada.
This is an exciting project to be working on…
Check out 3 short youtube videos that Theatre In the Raw has produced that include achive video footage of a few of the Vancouver Yippie events that happened in the early 70s - 40 years ago! These events are a part of the musical play that Bob Sarti has written… He was also there…
Where were you in 1970?
See the videos here at… http://www.youtube.com/yippiesinlove
Also on twitter at… http://twitter.com/yippiesinlove
And on facebook - yippiesinlove
This show will steal your heart…..
Because of the art scene & the yippees, punk in Vancouver had more depth. Can’t wait to see Bob Sarti’s creation.