Live in Hell at Performance Works
Dates: 9/11/2026 - 9/20/2026
📍 Theatre: Performance Works
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Live in Hell is a comitragic solo show written and performed by Marita Michaelis, featuring a self-obsessed and contractually un-sexy She-Devil who welcomes the audience to her own personal hell, built from objects emerging from a comically large cardboard Amazon box. Through pathetic practical magic, crowdwork, and trauma-informed puppet therapy, the She-Devil confronts her iconoclastic celebrity status as the ultimate scapegoat, unboxing her makeshift hellscape and unravelling her psyche. Replete with original songs, joyful transgressions, and crappy splendour, the show confronts the failure of moralism and the many unnecessary evils of everyday life. The production is a winner of Playwright Theatre Centre's Kathleen Flaherty Prize and is presented as part of the 2026 Vancouver Fringe Festival.
Cast and Creative Team for Live in Hell at Performance Works
Cast
Marita Michaelis
The Devil Herself
Creative Team
Lauren Han
Co-Creative Producer
Lauren Han
Co-Director
Alexandra McDougall
Co-Creative Producer
Alexandra McDougall
Co-Director
Davey Samuel Calderon
Dramaturg
Maddy Woodley
Lighting Designer
Avideh Saadatpajouh
Technical Designer
Justin Perdomo
Sound Designer
Marita Michaelis
Set Designer
Marita Michaelis
Props Designer
Marita Michaelis
Costume Designer
News About Live in Hell at Performance Works
LIVE IN HELL to Run at Vancouver Fringe Festival 2026
July 17, 2026 Marita Michaelis's solo comitragedy LIVE IN HELL, winner of Playwright Theatre Centre's Kathleen Flaherty Prize, will run at Performance Works as part of the Vancouver Fringe Festival.About the Theatre
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