Edmonton 
Events Description
What if your future depended on winning a game designed for you to fail?
A recipient of the Arts Club Theatre Company’s Silver Commission, part of Ruby Slippers Theatre’s 2026 Advance Theatre Festival, and written by Lieutenant Governor’s Arts and Music Award-winner Alexandra Lainfiesta, Bella Luz is a fierce, fast-paced, and inventive dive into the world of the modern immigrant experience.
Sumailla is an unstoppable dancer who takes a job in the high-octane film stunt industry to build a life in Canada. But as her on-set life directly collides with her family’s reality back home in Guatemala, Sumailla wrestles with the moral compromises needed to secure her future in Canada.
Blending razor-sharp parody and bold theatrical energy, Bella Luz exposes the contradictions of an immigrant’s experience in Canada with equal parts humor and heart.
A SkirtsAfire Festival / Ruby Slippers Theatre Production
By Alexandra Lainfiesta
Directed by Jenna Rodgers
Who is it for?
All ages
Warning: Coarse language, covert misogyny, racial micro-aggressions and transnational grief.
HOW MUCH
Tickets : $37.00-$62.00 +fees
How to get tickets?
Phone: 780.453.2440
WHEN & WHERE
Date: Thursday March 4, 2027 to Sunday March 14, 2027
Tuesdays – Saturdays | 7:30 PM
Sundays | 2:00 PM
120 minutes, including intermission
Venue & Address
Theatre Network, 10708 124 Street, Edmonton, AB T5M 0H1, Canada
Wheelchair accessible
Street Parking
Paid Parking
Accessible by Public Transport
