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Ric Reid (Arts Club Photo, 2019). Nicola Lipman and Ric Reid (Arts Club Photo, 2019).
The Matchmaker (2019)
In the opening scene of a Vancouver Arts Club remounting of Thornton Wilder's 1954 slapstick comedy, The Matchmaker, the grumpy, misanthropic Horace Vandergelder wears an ornate masonic apron with square and compasses.

While not—one assumes—intentionally anti-masonic, costume designer Drew Facey perpetuates a fictionalized depiction of Freemasonry that borders on cultural misappropriation. His inspiration, obliquely, may have been the 1969 film, Hello Dolly! (1969), in which Walter Matthau as Horace Vandergelder marches in the 14th Street parade with the fictional Knights of the Hudson Lodge No. 26.

The Matchmaker. 2019 Arts Club Theatre Company, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Angela Beaulieu, Assistant Stage Manager; Ashlie Corcoran, Director; Mishelle Cuttler Composer & Sound Designer; Drew Facey, Set & Costume Designer; Genevieve Fleming, Assistant Director; Adam Henderson, Dialect Coach, Stewart Hunt Choreographer; Pamela Jakobs, Stage Manager; Sara Vickruck, Sound Design Assistant; John Webber, Lighting Designer; Karen Ydenberg, Production Dramaturg. artsclub.com/shows/2018-2019/the-matchmaker (accessed 2019/02/06). 2750 Granville St, Vancouver, BC.

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