Join us for a special presentation of two award-winning queer dramas by local playwrights.

I Fell in Love with Moby Dick (Winner, Best Drama, Victoria Fringe Festival 2023)

Homecoming (Kaelan Bain, Most Promising Playwright, Victoria One Act Play Festival 2025) 

Location: 716 Johnson St. 

November 22, 2025: 2pm and 7pm 

November 23, 2025: 2pm and 7pm

Tickets: Pay What You Will: $10/$15/$20/$25

Cash concession (snacks and N/A beverages)

I Fell in Love with Moby Dick: 30 minutes

15 minute intermission

Homecoming: 65 minutes

Total event duration: 110 minutes (1 hour 50 minutes) + optional 15 minute talkback.

Linger after Homecoming for a facilitated talkback with the artists of both productions. 

Talkback Facilitators:

November 22, 2pm: with Other Guise Theatre Artistic Director Matthew Payne

November 22, 7pm: with actor and director Ryan Kniel

November 23, 7pm: with director and Hapax Theatre Associate Artist Hannah Mariko Bell

Recommended for ages 16+ *

Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible seats available on request, please note in your ticket purchase request. Accessible washroom available on the first floor of the venue. For any questions about other accessibility needs or accommodation, please contact producer.bluejaye@gmail.com

If ticket price is a barrier for you at this moment, please contact the above address and we would be happy to assist.

I Fell in Love With Moby Dick 

“Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul at one point or other crazy to go to sea?”

I Fell in Love With Moby Dick follows a young woman, Michelle as she returns to her small and superstitious island home in northern British Columbia. Told by her at three ages, we see how her life begins, what drives her away and what pulls her back. Shaped by queer love, loss, and the sea I Fell in Love With Moby Dick is a familiar story of searching for home.

Featuring: 

Performance by 

Jane Rees

Jenny Robinson 

Kendra Bidwell

Stage Managed by

Taylor Maclean

Design by 

Kevin Eastman

Sydney Hunt

Homecoming

“I wonder if he’s changed, y’know?”

Homecoming follows Cyrus, a man in his late twenties as he returns to his rural Albertan hometown with his long-time partner for Thanksgiving, after years of estrangement from his family. As Cyrus’ partner meets his long-suffering sister, his no-filter brother, his outspoken in-law, and their acerbic mother, a sinister truth about Cyrus and their relationship begins to surface. A play about making a better future and falling back into the past, Homecoming asks the question: Have you ever left your old self behind? 

Featuring: 

Ben Scoones as Cyrus

Kaelan Bain as Dimitri

Liam Devlin as Malachi

 Alejandra Cruz Miron as Aaliyah

 Maya Kara as Ana (Sunday shows)

Devon Side Walker as Ana (Saturday shows)

 Tamara de Hernandez as Janet

Stage Management and Lighting Design by fosse chang

Production Design by Corina Fisher

Original Sound Design by Savannah O’Heany

*Sensory and content warnings: 

I Fell in Love with Moby Dick: contains discussion of religious trauma, homophobia, death, abusive family relationships and discussion of grief. 

Homecoming contains discussion of abusive relationships (family and romantic), discussion and brief portrayal of family violence, racism (micro-aggressions) and homophobia (including discussion of homophobic slurs). 

 Falling Back: Two One Act Plays is an independent, self-funded local production. All profits will be shared amongst the artists. Thank you for supporting new work, and playwrights, designers, stage managers, actors, producers, and directors in your community. 

Come say hello after the show, we would love to meet you.