Eyes of the Beast
June 18 鈥� 22, 2025 | 7:30 PM + June 21 & 22, 2025 | 2:00 PM
Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre
SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Duration: 90 minutes, including one intermission and facilitated talkback.
Tickets (unassigned seating)
- Indigenous Community Member: $5
- Downtown East Side Community Member: $5
- General Admission: $10
- Pay It Forward 鈥� General Admission: $50 (Help us subsidize our below market and Indigenous tickets!)
Eyes of the Beast is co-created by Sebastien Archibald, Gavan Cheema, and Kelsey Kanatan Wavey in collaboration with students from the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts.
Adapted from the award-winning journalism of the , an international newsroom at the University of Victoria, this documentary theatre production pulls from hundreds of testimonies of people across Canada who have lived through climate change together.
A fishing guide who took his boat into flooded farmland to rescue an alligator. An actor rushed to the hospital for heat stroke after performing in front of the legislature. A mother figuring out how to prepare her child for the future after fire flattened their town.
Climate disaster is not far away, not happening to someone else. It is here now, happening to us. Eyes of the Beast shows how we still have each other during those disasters, creating community amidst catastrophe.
In bringing this work to life, Neworld Theatre has partnered with students from SFU鈥檚 School for the Contemporary Arts, who are contributing as co-creators, performers, and researchers鈥攐ffering their own perspectives and creative voices to this evolving production.
Every performance is followed by a facilitated talkback, giving audiences a chance to reflect on the stories they鈥檝e heard and share their own experiences of climate disaster. A Vancouver political leader will also be present to listen to the performance, as well as the audience, and reflect on how we can help communities impacted by those disasters.
Eyes of the Beast is a production, in partnership with the , in association with the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, and supported by 尤物视频.
Content Warnings: This production contains graphic descriptions of climate disasters, loud noises and flashing lights. Please inquire with Neworld Theatre's box office if you have questions or concerns.
Creative Team
Director: Chelsea Haberlin
Associate Director: Kelsey Kanatan Wavey
Projections Designer: Candelario Andrade
Sound Designer: Mary Jane Coomber
Assistant Director: Samantha Li
Actors: Megan Battad, Oliver Fusio, Lachlan Harris-Fiesel, Sara van Gaalen, Michael Waddell, Ruby Wu, Maralee Joyner (Swing/Understudy)
Stage Management: Maddy Woodley
Assistant Stage Management: Sunny Lee and Jessica Kwon
Costume Designer: Carissa Toledo
Light Designers: Patrick Maka and Mars de Menezes
Set Designers: Keju Jiao and Georgia Turner
Climate Disaster Project
Founding Director: Sean Holman
Managing Editor: Aldyn Chwelos
Researchers: David Leach, Sarah Marie Wiebe, Morgan Krakow
