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Phoenix
The Light of Other Skies: a love story in sketches

The Light of Other Skies: a love story in sketches

A Memory Box Theatre Production, by Liam Monaghan

May 13 to 23, 2027

The Light of Other Skies: a love story in sketches

The architect Arthur Erickson gave Canada some of its most celebrated buildings, including Simon Fraser University, the University of Lethbridge, and the Museum of Anthropology. For nearly forty years, his partner in work and love was Francisco Kripacz, a dazzling interior designer. Although in private they shared an extraordinary life—travelling the world, befriending Trudeaus and movie stars, and reaching utopian highs and tragic lows—in public, they could never say what they meant to each other.

Decades later, a young architecture student goes searching through their archive of blueprints, letters, home movies, and headlines. As he imagines his way into their lives, their architecture rises from the archive. The Light of Other Skies moves in luminous fragments, asking what we can truly know about those who came before us, and what we choose to build from what remains.

Biographies

Writer, Theatre Artist

Liam Monaghan

Liam Monaghan is a writer, theatre artist, emerging scholar, and educator. His plays have been produced in Lethbridge, Edmonton, Halifax, and Victoria, and include Strange/Familiar, winner of the 2023 Sharon Pollock Prize awarded by Alberta Playwright’s Network and Theatre Alberta. In 2025, Liam founded Memory Box Theatre, an independent company dedicated to recovering forgotten and under-appreciated stories from Canadian history, sharing them with the public through live performance art. As a creative and critical writer, Liam’s essays have appeared in publications including Canadian Theatre Review, HowlRound Theatre Commons, Alberta Views, and The Antigonish Review. He holds an M.F.A. in Theatre Practice and is currently a Ph.D. Student in Performance Studies at the University of Alberta, where he holds a Canada Graduate Scholarship—Doctoral. As an educator, Liam has taught in arts classrooms and writing centres at MacEwan University, the University of Alberta, and the University of British Columbia.

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Tickets for Season 52 Phoenix Series productions are now available for Theatre Lover Pass holders. Single tickets go on sale to the public on November 10, 2026.

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