The director Chelsea Haberlin discusses the new ITSAZOO and Pacific Theatre world premiere production of Katherine Gauthier’s play Meeting playing at the Chalmers Heritage Building (14 May to 07 June 2025), with Joseph Planta.

Text of the introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.  

Chelsea Haberlin joins me again. She’s directing the world premiere of Katherine Gauthier’s Meeting. From ITSAZOO and Pacific Theatre, this play invites the audience into a meeting of a support group, taking place in a room at the Chalmers Heritage Building, which is home to Pacific Theatre, that often hosts meetings like this. The play offers a look into wwhat happens in a Co-Dependents, Love and Sex Addicts Anonymous meeting. And the conversations are often frank, challenging, nuanced, and personal. I’ll ask Chelsea about what happens in the piece, and what we might take out of the peer group experience. There’s a lot of trust as well as navigating of trauma at meetings like this, not to mention the contending of stigma. There are explicit discussions of trauma, abuse, sex and sexual behaviour. Visit www.itsazoo.org for tickets and information. The show begins Wednesday, 14 May 2025 and runs until 07 June 2025. Meeting stars Marcus Youssef, Carmela Sison, Chris Lam, Kaitlin Williams, and Sebastien Archibald. Please welcome back to the Planta: On the Line program, Chelsea Haberlin; Ms. Haberlin, good morning.   

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