Final Performances This Week!

Comments from our audiences:

If you haven’t yet experienced Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story, this is your last chance.

Comic, unsettling, and piercingly human: it’s a one-act encounter you’ll remember long after you leave the theatre.

📍 Studio 16, Vancouver
🗓 Now through October 26
🎟 Get Tickets

Special Talk-Back: Friday, October 24

Stay after Friday night’s performance for a special conversation led by
Dr. Susan Thompson exploring identity, empathy, and the emotional underpinnings of human connection.

Together with the artists, she’ll unpack The Zoo Story through a psychological lens: why we connect, why we avoid, and what theatre can still reveal about us.

Included with your ticket. Don’t miss this rare intersection of art and psychology.

Dr. Susan Thompson has a PhD in Psychology, with specializations in Child, Adolescent and Adult Development, Eating Disorders, and Sports Performance, and has been a Psychology Department Faculty Member of Kwantlen Polytechnic University since 2001.  She was also a Mental Health Counsellor for Vancouver Coastal Health for 27 years.

Susan has worked with athletes at all levels to improve sports performance and increase the learning efficiency of practices.  She has worked with several Young Riders Dressage teams, individual athletes in other disciplines, and with several High Performance coaches, helping them all to have the correct focus for both their training and for competition.  Athletes also deal with fear of injury, especially returning to the sport after an injury has occurred, and so anxiety management in these situations, along with positive mental rehearsal, can be very effective.

Anxiety and worries can impact any learning or performance situation, so having more control over your emotions and thoughts can improve your performance and let you find the joy in being your best!  Let the world see what you can really do, without being held back by anxiety.

Help Shape the Future of Independent Theatre

Even if you haven’t seen The Zoo Story, we’d love your input.
If you’ve joined us before for Oleanna, Constellations, or The Emigrants, your feedback helps us show funders that intimate, rigorous theatre matters in Vancouver.

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Your voice helps us secure future funding from the BC Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, so we can keep creating thought-provoking, accessible work.

Discounts & Community Access

Students & Seniors: 50% off
Theatre Students: Pay-What-You-Can at the door
Refugees: Free

At Exact Resemblance, we use theatre to foster empathy and belonging. We’re committed to ensuring that refugees and newcomers can find community in Vancouver’s cultural spaces.

If you know someone who is a refugee, who would love to attend, please invite them to write to [email protected] to receive a complimentary ticket.

Spread the Word

If you’ve already seen the show and loved it — tell a friend.
If not — come this week and see why audiences are talking.

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See you at the theatre!