Arts Club Theatre Company's Someone Like You kicks off Lower Mainland tour, January 9 and 10

Steffanie Davis returns to the stage as Isabelle, a millennial reimagining of hopeless romantic Cyrano de Bergerac

By emily lyth

Someone Like You.

Arts Club Theatre Company presents Someone Like You at Kay Meek Arts Centre on January 9 and 10 at 7:30 pm

THE TITULAR FRENCH nobleman in Cyrano de Bergerac gets transported from 1640s Paris to 21st-century Vancouver in playwright Christine Quintana’s Someone Like You, which is returning to the Arts Club Theatre Company for a Lower Mainland tour in the new year.

This modern-day take on Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play follows lifelong lovergirl Isabelle, who’s a millennial reimagining of hopeless romantic Cyrano. Despite her affectionate tendencies, the heroine often finds herself relegated to the sidelines of romance. When Isabelle’s roommate Kirsten needs help writing love letters to a potential new partner, Harjit, in order to get over her ex, Isabelle steps up to the plate—but somewhere along the way she ends up falling for Harjit, too. Director Jivesh Parasram is at the helm of this complex love triangle, which draws on current topics like dating apps and East Van craft breweries.

Steffanie Davis, who’s fresh off a successful run of East Van Panto: Robin Hood, played the lead role of Isabelle during a 2023 run of Someone Like You. In our review, Stir noted of Isabelle that “There’s an inherent honesty, delivered with a lot of charisma and sheer force from Davis, that makes her hard not to love.” Davis will reprise the role of Isabelle this time around, joined by Ivy Charles as Kirsten and Praneet Akilla as Harjit.

Someone Like You opens at the Kay Meek Arts Centre in West Vancouver on January 9 and 10 at 7:30 pm. Over the following month, the show will visit the Anvil Theatre in New Westminster, Surrey Arts Centre, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby, Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam, BMO Theatre Centre in Vancouver, and Clarke Theatre in Mission.

The tour wraps up at the ACT Arts Centre in Maple Ridge on February 8 and 9.  

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