{"id":24075,"date":"2023-07-05T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=24075"},"modified":"2023-11-08T13:55:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T21:55:16","slug":"the-last-five-years-gets-non-linear-with-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2023\/07\/05\/the-last-five-years-gets-non-linear-with-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Five Years<\/em> gets non-linear with relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre is continuing its stream of gutsy productions with the musical The Last Five Years<\/i>. Written by Jason Robert Brown, The Last Five Years<\/i> premiered in Chicago in 2001 and has since grown in popularity, showing around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s special about it is the story documents five years in the journey of a relationship,\u201d says Julie McIsaac, director of Blue Bridge\u2019s production of The Last Five Years<\/i>. \u201cThe characters\u2019 names are Cathy and Jamie, and you get this way of meeting, falling in love, and then the struggles that ensue.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Last Five Years<\/em> director Julie McIsaac is working with Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre for the first time (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

McIsaac says that what makes The Last Five Years<\/i> interesting is that the story runs on two different timelines.<\/p>\n

\u201cKathy\u2019s story is told from the end of the relationship back to the beginning,\u201d says McIsaac. \u201cHer story starts with, like, the heartbreak of the breakup, and then goes backward in time all the way back to their first meeting. Whereas Jamie\u2019s does the opposite\u2014his timeline starts with their first date, and then moves forward. So, you get this really cool intersection of the two timelines.\u201d<\/p>\n

We often think timelines have to be linear, says McIsaac, but human experience is much more complex.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can be in a moment, and you can be thinking about the future, and be sort of caught up in the past in the very same moment, so the way time and memory actually work is a lot more complicated,\u201d she says. \u201cI love that this piece shows us these two timelines.\u201d<\/p>\n

McIsaac is excited about this production, particularly the unique twist that the cast is hoping to achieve.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way it\u2019s originally conceived is that the only time the two characters meet up is in the middle of their story, but we\u2019re doing something a little different, where they are both on stage throughout the entire piece,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s very exciting; it\u2019s new.\u201d<\/p>\n

McIsaac says that she feels the musical is really well crafted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe composer himself is an incredible pianist, so the piano parts are really cool, but we also have a violin and a cello helping us to tell the stories. We will also have the band on stage with us, at the Roxy,\u201d says McIsaac. \u201cIt\u2019s been really fun working with live musicians, as well as the two singers. It\u2019s very exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

McIsaac also appreciates the actors she\u2019s working with and what their experiences will bring to the production.<\/p>\n

\u201cCheyanne Scott is going to be playing the role of Cathy,\u201d says McIssac. \u201cI worked with Cheyanne before in Children of God<\/i>, which is a new Canadian musical about the residential-school experience. I\u2019ve always admired her work, and I\u2019m looking forward to working with her on this different capacity. Seth Zosky is playing the role of Jamie; he is someone Victoria audiences don\u2019t know, as he is based out of Toronto. Seth is Jewish, as is the character of Jamie; we felt it was important to bring in an actor who has that lived experience, who understands that culture, because it is sort of imbedded in the character.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plot takes place after hours at a wedding, says McIsaac.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will hopefully be this element of romance and whimsy when you walk into the Roxy.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is McIsaac\u2019s first time working with Blue Bridge after seeing many of their shows and hearing a lot about them over the years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have such a love of musical storytelling,\u201d says McIsaac, \u201cand I\u2019m thrilled it\u2019s working out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Last Five Years
\n<\/i>Various times,
\nTuesday, August 1
\nto Sunday, August 13
\nVarious prices,
\nBlue Bridge Theatre
\nbluebridgetheatre.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre is continuing its stream of gutsy productions with the musical The Last Five Years. Written by Jason Robert Brown, The Last Five Years premiered in Chicago in 2001 and has since grown in popularity, showing around the world. \u201cWhat\u2019s special about it is the story documents five years in the journey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-july-5-2023"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24613,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24075\/revisions\/24613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}