Beauty Night’s creative endeavours program is in full swing.  Beauty Night clients fuse a night of arts and culture with a slice of beauty.  On Monday night’s makeover night, Beauty Night founder, Caroline MacGillivray will hold a draw for four pairs of tickets to see Touchstone Theatre’s world premiere of Influence by Janet Munsil.  The recipients of the tickets will win a night that includes a meal, makeup touch up and hair styling, and a chance to be one of the select few that gets to see this show on the preview night.

 According to media contact Cynnamon SchreinertInfluence runs from November 7 to 15 at Performance Works on Granville Island (November 6 Preview) IN FULL… In a room in the British Museum in 1817 the unknown medical student John Keats (Daniel Arnold) wants to abandon his medicine to become a poet. Egged on by his mentor, the now-forgotten history painter Benjamin Robert Hayden (Mike Stack), Keats looks for inspiration in The Elgin Marbles: the fragments of the Parthenon taken from Greece by England’s Lord Elgin, which to this day have created a storm of international debate. Unbeknownst to Keats, Athena (Colleen Wheeler), Goddess of Wisdom and protector of Athens, has .arrived in the city of fog to reclaim her statues and seek revenge for the desecration of the Parthenon. Hephaestus 

(Donald Adams) God of the Forge, and Apollo (Frank Zotter) God of Poetry and Medicine, arrive with their own agendas.  With art, artefact and immortality all at stake, an epic and at times hilarious battle unfolds which will determine the fate of Keats and influence the future forever. 

Victoria-based playwright and producer Janet Munsil is inspired by memoirs of the forgotten, dusty museum cabinets, and curious historical coincidences.  Her plays have been produced by some of the most respected and adventurous contemporary theatres, both at home and abroad – Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre, London’s Soho Theatre, and the West Yorkshire Playhouse, among others. Her literary sensibility and wild imagination have put her on the cutting edge of new Canadian drama. 

Beauty Night will need volunteers who enjoy going to the theatre to drive and help facilitate discussion about the show afterwards.

For those who are unable to volunteer but would like to check out the show:

Influence features; Donald Adams (King Lear, Tideline), Daniel Arnold (Poster Boys, The Triumph of Love), 

Mike Stack (Farther West, The Overcoat), Colleen Wheeler (The Tempest, My Chernobyl ) and Frank Zotter (Stuck, The Elephant Man, Calgary).  Set design for Influence is by David Roberts, lighting design by Jonathan Ryder, costume design by Sheila White, with sound and original music by Owen Belton.  

Influence runs from November 6 to 15 (Tues – Sat 8pm, Sat 2pm, Sun 4pm) at Performance Works, 1218 

Cartwright Street, Granville Island. Tickets are $26 adults, $24 seniors, $20 students  

available through Tickets Tonight at 604-687-2787 or visit www.ticketstonight.ca  

Special Performances include: 

Thursday, November 6, 8pm – Free Performance – tickets at the door, first-come first-served 

Friday, November 7, 8pm – Opening Night 

Saturday, November 8, 2pm – Two-for-One – all tickets $13, includes service charges 

Sunday, November 9, 4pm – BMO Pre-show Director’s Chat with Katrina Dunn in the lobby at 3:15pm 

Tuesday, November 11 – BMO Post-show Talkback