Do You Mind If I Sit Here?
A bold new work from award-winning playwrights James Long and Marcus Youssef
Thirty years from now, three social planners visit Vancouver’s Russian Hall, long abandoned due to earthquakes and flooding, with a seemingly straightforward task: repurpose the hall for common use. But the trio soon discover the project won’t be an easy fix. An eccentric squatter, armed with a trove of Soviet industrial films on 16 mm stock, has made the damaged hall their home … and they’re not leaving.
James Long and Marcus Youssef's multimedia play Do you mind if I sit here? dares us seriously to consider the possibilities of radical transformation and to imagine a future born from our most important beliefs, fears, and hopes.
Cast of 3 actors of any gender
Marcus Youssef .
James Long is a director, actor, writer, and teacher whose creative practice occurs in a wide variety of interdisciplinary and collaborative contexts, including as a founding artistic director of Theatre Replacement (2003–2022) and as an independent artist working in live performance, community-engaged practice, and public art. He was co-awarded with Maiko Yamamoto the 2019 Siminovitch Prize, and nominated with Marcus Youssef for a Governor General’s Award for Theatre for Winners and Losers (published by Talonbooks).
