{"id":635213,"date":"2026-04-29T00:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/635213\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T00:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:12:09","slug":"surrey-musician-helps-stage-glitch-a-play-set-inside-giant-cellphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/635213\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey musician helps stage \u2018Glitch,\u2019 a play set inside giant cellphone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surrey musician helps stage \u2018Glitch,\u2019 a play set inside giant cellphone<\/p>\n

Published 4:00 pm Tuesday, April 28, 2026<\/p>\n

Surrey resident Sophie Labrie is back as music mentor and musician for Some Assembly Theatre Company\u2019s 26th-anniversary production of Glitch, a new play created by Valerie Methot in collaboration with Vancouver-area youth and artists.<\/p>\n

Glitch is advertised as \u201ca bold new work\u201d inspired by concerns about societal expectations, anxiety and phone addiction among youth.<\/p>\n

The show, written and directed by Methot, is staged May 6-9 at Roundhouse Performance Centre in Vancouver, tickets on someassembly.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The artistic process to create Glitch involved more than 170 professional artists, diverse youth, educators and health care workers.<\/p>\n

Surrey\u2019s Labrie is a longtime collaborator in Some Assembly theatre productions<\/a> dating back to 2011 when she joined Roundhouse Youth Theatre Action Group as a youth writer and performer. Four years later she performed and co-wrote Webs We Weave as an 18-year-old living in Whalley.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s now a singer, songwriter, writer, director and actor. Labrie attended Sarah McLachlan School of Music, graduated from Vancouver Academy of Dramatic Arts and recently wrote and directed two short films, A Story about Love and Wildflowers.<\/p>\n

In Glitch, youth are pulled inside a giant cell phone \u2014 \u201can absurd and terrifying world of information overload, competition, and unrealistic expectations,\u201d a bio says. \u201cMet with the lure of trendy apps, a psychosocial battle for the highest number of human users escalates. Can the humans break free of the vicious cycle?\u201d<\/p>\n

A trailer for Glitch is posted below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey musician helps stage \u2018Glitch,\u2019 a play set inside giant cellphone Published 4:00 pm Tuesday, April 28, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-635213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}