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The Commandeered Coast Guard Boat That Launched Bard on the Beach

Remembering the roots of Vancouver’s preeminent Shakespeare festival.

Photo Credit: Moya O’Connell as Coriolanus Photo & Image Design: Emily Cooper

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Coriolanus Turns the Volume Up at Bard on the Beach

The final show of the season teeters on the edge of war and explosive politics.

Bard on the Beach All's Well that Ends Well

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Theatre Review: All’s Well That Ends Well

<em>Not a Love Story.</em>

Set in British India pre-Partition, this Bard on the Beach production introduces cultural tension to open up one of Shakespeare’s “problem” plays.

MONTECRISTO: Bard on the Beach

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Christopher Gaze of Bard on the Beach

One man, many parts.

Equal parts approachable, passionate, effusive, self-deprecating and serious, Christopher Gaze is the formative creative force behind Bard on the Beach.

MONTE Blog: Araxi Longtable Dinner

Food and Drink

Araxi’s Longtable Vancouver Debut

Dinner for many.

Pemberton, Whistler, Fraser Valley, and the Okanagan have played host to some of B.C.’s finest al fresco dinners. It was just a matter of time until these outstanding farm-to-table fetes would arrive in Vancouver.

MONTECRISTO Magazine: Ryan Beil

5th Anniversary

Five Years of Profiles

In the pages of MONTECRISTO over the past five years, you’ll find a pack of local outliers—leaders and talent pushing the boundaries of our social and civic lives.

MONTECRISTO: "Shakespeare's Rebel" Book Launch

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C.C. Humphrey’s “Shakespeare’s Rebel” Book Launch

(S)words.

The launch of C.C. Humphrey’s latest work of historical fiction, Shakespeare’s Rebel, was, as promised, a “swashbuckling night of swords and words,” held at Bard on the Beach, Vanier Park.

MONTECRISTO: Ryan Beil

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Actor and Comedian Ryan Beil

A rare breed.

A burger boy, a murdered youth, an everyman, a tortured lover? Check. Various shades of Shakespeare? He’s played those characters, too. Whatever you tell him to be during an on-the-spot improvisation? Of course; Ryan Beil has performed them all.

MONTECRISTO: Howard Soon

Food and Drink

Howard Soon of Sandhill Winery

Small lots, big ideas.

Howard Soon is head winemaker at Sandhill Winery, he’s been since 1997, and has been a pioneer in the Okanagan Valley wine industry for over three decades.