Three to See Friday: Here There Be Night an eight-part play

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Here There Be Night: Totally cool idea, with help from playwrights Bevin Dooley, Harley Morison, Mieko Ouchi and more, this innovative act of theatre is a professional production which uses the health limitations of COVID-19 as theatrical convention. Audience groups of one or two are guided via their cellphones and audio narration to see solo performers in a variety of outdoor and found space locations in Old Strathcona.

The tag lines set the tone: “The veil is the thin, invisible membrane that separates this world, from my world. The other world. All the other worlds. There is an understanding among people who think about such things that children are closer to that veil.”

Eight stories, eight locations. Dress for the weather, with pandemic mask and earbuds. PG-13, runs Oct. 23-24, Oct. 27 – Nov. 1. Buy tickets 24 hours in advance.

Banner poster for Workshop West’s Here Be the Night. Photo by supplied

Details: various starts beginning at 7:20 p.m. at Strathcona Community League (10139 87 Ave.), tickets ranging from $15 – $35 at workshopwest.org

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Maria Dunn + Shannon Johnson: Two, one-hour concerts are on deck Friday from ethical singer-songwriter Maria Dunn and fiddle champion Shannon Johnson. Fifty tickets a show are one sale, and following a successful summer of socially-distanced outdoor house concerts, promoter John Armstrong notes, “One thing I realized while doing the porch concert block parties this summer was that these kinds of shows are great for seniors and kids.

“With the community concerts in the church, we set the times so that the performances are convenient for families and people of all ages. We’re not trying to compete with the bars and clubs.”

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Details: 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at Holy Trinity Church (10037 84 Ave.), $10 at brassmonkeyarts.com

Memories of a Murder (2003): In this thriller based on true events directed by Bong Joon Ho, Park and Cho are two simple-minded detectives assigned to a double murder investigation in a South Korean province.

But when the murderer strikes several more times with the same pattern, the detectives realize that they are chasing the country’s first documented serial killer. Brand new 4K restoration, Korean with subtitles, 131 mins.

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Details: 6:30 p.m. at Metro Cinema (8712 109 St.), $13 at metrocinema.org 

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