Dry Land

By Ruby Rae Spiegel

Tremors Festival, Rumble Theatre

Ester is a swimmer trying to stay afloat. Amy is curled up on the locker room floor. Dry Land dives into the lives of two teen girls and explores what happens in one high school locker room after everybody’s left. Spiegel’s play, her first full-length work, was a finalist for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2015.

Colin Thomas, Georgia Straight

Ruby Rae Spiegel’s Dry Land is about the liminal spaces of adolescence, particularly female adolescence: the ambiguities, contradictions, and incoherence that flow into the gap between childhood and adulthood. It’s a wonderfully subtle and sophisticated script that is well realized in this production, especially in the acting.

Jim Macdonald, Review Vancouver

Dry Land features strong performances including a brave and vulnerable performance by Anais West. The show is beautifully designed, completely transforming its non traditional space.

Jo Ledingham, On the Scene

So natural are their performances, you’d swear you are eavesdropping in the swim club’s locker room… Both Griffin and West bring their characters into such real, sharp focus, it’s easy to forget this is theatre.

SET AND COSTUME DESIGN BY Sandy Margret LIGHTING DESIGN BY Nicole Weismiller SOUND DESIGN BY Dylan McNulty STAGE MANAGEMENT BY Shila Amin ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGEMENT BY Linzi Voth