Nelson Algren’s The Brothers’ House Hydra Performing Arts Festival 2026

thom vernon presents Nelson Algren’s The Brothers’ House

Chimera Theatre's Hydra Performing Arts Festival 2026

Show Description: 

Nelson Algren, one of the great mid-century American writers, earned his first O.Henry Prize with "The Brothers' House." In this short story, performed onstage exactly as written, with performer and musician improvising, a prisoner surmounts the wreckage of his life to find out if he can, after all, go home again. Poetic and haunting, The Brothers' House wonders if we can, despite the lives we've led and the mistakes we've made, still be embraced. 

Length: 30 mins

Audience Rating: PG (adult themes, no cursing)

Artist Bio:

thom vernon is an award-winning writer, multi-media artist, and scholar transmuting sites of social harm into those of agency and connection. A longtime actor/creator in theatre/TV/film (The Fugitive, Seinfeld, General Hospital, Saving Hope, Murdoch Mysteries, etc. etc.), thom has also two novels in the word (The Drifts (Coach House 2010), I Met Death & Sex Through My Friend, Tom Meuley (Guernica Editions 2024)), and the next at market: Ashes Come With, or Walter Benjamin Is Stuck In A Tuna Can. He has a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing and is an assistant professor at Thompson Rivers University.

Schedule:

Friday November 20 | Doors 7:15pm | Show 7:30pm

Venue: Bridgeview Theatre

Saturday November 21 | Doors 2:45pm | Show 3pm

Venue: Kamloops Art Gallery

Friday November 27 | Doors 5:45pm | Show 6pm

Venue: Bridgeview Theatre