About Us
Founded by Mindy Parfitt, The Search Party is an ambitious new company committed to bringing emotionally powerful and aesthetically rigorous productions to Vancouver’s intimate stages.
Drawn to traditional theatre with a modern appeal, the company seeks out original texts that explore the intricacies and contradictions in our human connections and experiences.
The Search Party is inspired by humour, compassion and quality storytelling that highlights the power of voice as it expresses the vulnerabilities and strengths of the human spirit.
We currently find ourselves at a crossroads in history where we are each being asked to examine the ground we stand on and to participate responsibly in conversations with both self and community, about the stories we tell ourselves and the stories we help perpetuate. It is time to recognize the ways in which we impact each other in our commitment to these narratives. It is time to demand transparency and honesty, and it is time to use and trust our own creative voices – to retell old stories anew, to tell the untold stories that have never been heard, and to rewrite those stories that distort power and create hierarchies of privilege.
Productions
Stupid
Fucking
Bird
BY AARON POSNER
DIRECTED BY MINDY PARFITT
CREATIVE TEAM: Amir Ofek (Set), Itai Erdal (Lights), Owen Belton (Sound Design), Anton Lipovetsky (Musical Direction), Jessica Oostergo (Costumes), Rebecca Mulvihill (Stage Manager), Stephen Field Edgar (Props Supervisor), Yuting Yue (Production Assistant), Sarah Sosick (Assistant Costume Designer), Jeremy Vreeken (Technical Director & Scenic Carpenter)
Bunny
WRITTEN BY HANNAH MOSCOVITCH
DIRECTED BY MINDY PARFITT
DESIGN TEAM: AMIR OFEK (SET), ITAI ERDAL (LIGHTS), JESSICA OOSTERGO (COSTUME), ALESSANDRO JULIANI (SOUND)
The Amaryllis
WRITTEN BY MICHELE RIML
A co-production with The Firehall Arts Centre, The Amaryllis was produced in November 2020. It was closed mid-run due to heightened restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Father
By Florian Zeller and Translated by Christopher Hampton
Nominated for 8 Jessie Richardson Awards and the winner of 6 – Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor, Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress, Outstanding Set Design, Outstanding Lighting Design, Outstanding Direction and Best Production for Small Theatre.
Committed to cultivating true collaboration, the Search Party prioritizes productive, harmonious working communities at all levels of production, based on mutual respect, curiosity, rigour, self-examination and authenticity.
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The Search Party is grateful to operate on the traditional, unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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