Past Projects

Broken Sex Doll

World Premiere Performance (Vancouver) October 30, 2011

Written and directed by Andy Thompson.
Produced by The Virtual Stage at Here Be Monsters' Theatre Under the Gun: 125 Gun Salute 125-hour theatre creation festival.
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Repair Man

100-Hour Filmmaking Competition (International) 2011

A short film written, shot and edited in 100 hours for the Film Racing Grand Prix.  Top-ranking Canadian film and 3rd place overall in the competition.
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1984

World premiere (Vancouver) 2011

Andy Thompson's stage adaptation of George Orwell's timeless dystopian masterpiece
Co-produced by The Virtual Stage and Langara College's Studio 58
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No Exit

World premiere (Vancouver) spring 2008
Canadian tour (Kamloops, Toronto, Calgary) 2009/2010
USA debut (San Francisco) 2011

A live-cinematic intrepretation of Jean-Paul Sartre's existential masterpiece from director Kim Collier
Co-produced by The Virtual Stage and Electric Company Theatre
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An Interesting Man

World premiere (Vancouver) 2010

Created and performed by Benjamin Elliott and Andy Thompson in 48 hours.
Produced by The Virtual Stage at Here Be Monsters' Theatre Under the Gun festival.

SPANK!

World premiere (Vancouver) 2006

Andy Thompson's sci-fi comedy about a cutting-edge geneticist's fateful discovery of the "enlightenment gene"
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Valparaiso

(Vancouver) 2004

Our second production of Don DeLillo's take on an unsuspecting man's instant stardom after accidentally getting on the wrong plane
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The Birth of Freedom

World premiere (Vancouver) 2002

Andy Thompson's timely, darkly comic and slightly crazed play about the future of institutionalized caregiving
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Valparaiso

Canadian premiere (North Vancouver) 2001

The first production in Canada of American novelist Don DeLillo's play about a man who becomes a celebrity after he inadvertently gets on a plane to South America.
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Daydream Believer

World premiere (Vancouver) 2000

A short play written, rehearsed and performed within 24 hours as part of Theatre Under the Gun. A memorable rollercoaster ride through a lonely housewife's imagination, as influenced by her husband's TV channel surfing.

Game Over

2000

A short film. This first creation of The Virtual Stage, was written, shot and edited in less than two days during the Reel Fast 48-Hour Movie Making Competition. Based on an "inspiration package" our team received, Game Over tells the story of the investigation into a mysterious shooting outside Planet Lazer in which four boys were killed. A fifth boy, an eight-year old, is missing. What unfolds is a disturbing exlploration of today's children and the violent entertainment they consume.