Author Robert J. Sawyer writes to tell us he recently flew to Prince George, British Columbia, for the premiere run of Rollback, a stage play based on his Hugo Award-nominated novel of the same name, which was first published in 2007.
Virginia O’Dine wrote and directed the two-hour adaptation (and is also publisher of Bundoran Press, a small press in Prince George specializing in science fiction and fantasy).
Rollback is a novel about rejuvenation, and the play features separate actors playing the roles of the old and young versions of University of Toronto SETI radio astronomer Sarah Halifax and her husband, CBC Radio producer Don Halifax.
The play opened on 28 April, and has two performances left: tonight and tomorrow, at 8PM, at the College of New Caledonia, Theatre 1-306. After these six performances in Prince George, the play goes to the Theatre BC Festival in Williams Lake on 28 May 2011.
Sawyer joins the cast in this photo (above right) by Robin Rowland. Front row, left to right: playwright/director Virginia O’Dine, novelist Robert J. Sawyer. Back row, left to right: Ciaran Maguire (the android Gunter), Lynne Brown (old Sarah), Vivian Johnson (young Sarah), Al Wiensczyk (old Don), and Al Dawson (young Don).