{"id":950592,"date":"2026-10-29T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950592\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:52:10","slug":"smoke-gets-in-your-house-reading-to-open-naked-stage-season-in-surrey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950592\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Smoke Gets in Your House\u2019 reading to open Naked Stage season in Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              \u2018Smoke Gets in Your House\u2019 reading to open Naked Stage season in Surrey<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 7:30 pm Wednesday, October 28, 2026<\/p>\n<p>A reading of Smoke Gets in Your House opens Naked Stage\u2019s fall-to-spring season in Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>Launched 10 years ago, the company stages radio play-like performances without extensive lighting, sound or props, just actors on stage reading curated scripts. The stage at Newton Cultural Centre is \u201cnaked,\u201d not actors who audition and rehearse. <\/p>\n<p>On the Nov. 6-8 weekend, Ken Levine\u2019s script reveals how a California wildfire changes the lives of two evacuated couples, played by Brian Johnston, Shawn Webster, Judith Betzler and Ryan Johnson, with drama and humour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe impending disaster forces both couples to face long-held values and differences that must be addressed,\u201d explains director Colleen McGoff Dean on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nspsociety.com\/upcoming-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">nspsociety.com<\/a>, where single tickets are sold for $24, or $20 each for 10.<\/p>\n<p>Show times are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, at 13530 72 Ave., Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>Patrons might recognize the voice of Webster, traffic reporter for CKNW radio station for two-plus decades before becoming a realtor. In 2022 she began acting and doing voice work.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026-27 Naked Stage season features four script-readings, with Smoke Gets in Your House followed by Robert More\u2019s Jessica\u2019s Fine Adventure (next February), Meghan Kennedy\u2019s The Counter (April) and Blaine Newton\u2019s The Thin Grey Line (June).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Smoke Gets in Your House\u2019 reading to open Naked Stage season in Surrey Published 7:30 pm Wednesday, October&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-950592","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\/950592","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=950592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}