This week, Natasha Nadir chats with Vancouver-based playwright Garvin Chan to talk about their play, The Funeral of Garvin Chan (1998-2025).

The Funeral of Garvin Chan (1998-2025) by Garvin Chan is an immersive dark comedy set in a church. An absurd and contradictory series of eulogies exploring the possibilities of how one can be remembered, the unknowability of one's person (spiritually, literally and emotionally.)

Content Forecast: Discussions of suicide, death, and grief. Strong language.

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Waveforms was produced by Realwheels Theatre with the co-operation of UBCP/ACTRA.

Cast:

GARVIN CHAN as GARV

KAITLYN YOTT as CELEBRANT

SARAH PEGUERO as SOPHIE

NYX DEBOGORSKI as CASE

JULIA ABREU as MARIGOLD & DISEMBODIED VOICE

ANDY KALIRAI as STAGE DIRECTIONS

Host: Natasha Nadir

Playwright: Garvin Chan

Original Compositions and Sound Design: Finka Wood

Production Management: Jordyn Wood

Poster Graphic Design: Samantha Walters

This podcast is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of British Columbia, the City of Vancouver, and the Hamber Foundation.

This production was recorded and broadcast from the unceded and ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, at GGRP Sound Studios.