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Rethinking Good Intentions: A Solo Storytelling Play

Fri. August 22nd 2025 Intrepid Theatre Victoria BC $15-$18

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Rethinking Good Intentions: A Solo Storytelling Play

Solo play transports audiences to community health work in West African villages
Event can be attended in person In-Person Event
Theatre Drama Cultural / Heritage Ethno-Cultural
Fri. August 22nd 2025 + Add to Calendar Intrepid Theatre (No Minors)
5:30pm - 6:30pm  Doors at: 5:15pm $15-$18

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Nancy Edwards (Ottawa-based, playwright and performer)

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Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival
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Admin Office: 1609 Blanshard Victoria BC
since 1986

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Last year, "Rethinking Good Intentions" debuted at five Fringe Festivals in Ontario and Nova Scotia. Audiences described it as "powerful", "impressive", "so relatable", "funny and poignant" and "rich with culture". In August, 2025, "Rethinking Good Intentions" is coming to the west coast with six performances scheduled at Victoria's Fringe Festival and a performance in Ladysmith.
Nancy Edwards is the Ottawa-based playwright and performer. Her compelling, solo story-telling play transports audiences to the rural villages of Sierra Leone, West Africa in the late 1970s where Nancy worked as a community health nurse for five years.
Nancy’s journey is both poignant and humorous. With the patience of local mentors, Nancy adjusted to life and the field-work realities of delivering preventive maternal and child health services. The play is filled with stories about initially blundered and then inspired encounters with village chiefs, traditional birth attendants, and subsistence farmers. Village experiences rattled Nancy’s cultural preconceptions, provoked her notions of social privilege, and forever deepened her global connections.
Nancy’s heart-warming and heart-breaking stories about public health work in the villages make audiences laugh and cry. This new play is full of humanity.

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Intrepid Theatre
1609 Blanshard
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Capacity172
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since 1986

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Rethinking Good Intentions: A Solo Storytelling Play - Feb 27th @ Intrepid Theatre

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