Seaway Valley Theatre Company takes a darker turn with Burn

Cameron MacPhee’s choice for directing a dark story appears to be landing at an appropriately serious time. Even if it wasn’t meant to be that way. “Not necessarily,” MacPhee said in the cosy confines of the Seaway Valley Theatre Company’s (SVTC) headquarters just off Pitt Street. “We were trying to put it out five years ago, just before the pandemic,” said MacPhee on his first attempt at Burn, described by Seaway Theatre as a “tense psychological