By Jeff Kubik
People don’t go to the theatre for many reasons, all of them unfortunate. For some, “theatre” is a stuffy rendition of The Nutcracker at Christmas, sweating through itchy clothes your parents crammed you into when you were too young to resist. Others remember high school outcasts embarrassing themselves at assemblies with interpretive dance. Of course,… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Thespian adventures
With the downfall of popular culture it’s no surprise the majority of music today is performed by little boys in black t-shirts and baggy pants. What happened to the good ol’ days when showmanship–eyeliner doesn’t count–really meant something? What happened to tiger-skin trousers and three foot high pink wigs? No, this isn’t referring to the… Continue reading Theatre PReview: Rock me Amadeus
There are times in life when people are so disillusioned, all they can do is ask, ‘how did my life get like this?’ This is the question asked by the character in One Yellow Rabbit’s production of A Fabulous Disaster, a tragic comedy that deals with a broken heart. No offense to Denise Clarke, who… Continue reading Theatre Review: A Fabulous Disaster avoids disaster fabulously
She’s not cocky, she’s confident, or at least that’s how Denise Clarke describes herself. Clarke, an associate artist with One Yellow Rabbit, is positive her one-woman show, A Fabulous Disaster, will be a favourite among the masses of Calgary because of her theatrical talent. The words talent and passion are two adjectives barely applicable to… Continue reading Theatre Preview: A Fabulous Disaster
As far as childhood activities go, the telephone game is one of the most popular. The starting player chooses a phrase, whispers it into the next player’s ear and the message passes down the line, yielding minor distortions in transit. Rarely does the message remain intact. More often a phrase like “all the world needs… Continue reading Theatre Review: Oleanna
Many years ago, along the misty river banks of England, the words of Shakespeare would resonate across the water. Once again it is possible to hear those classic lines in iambic pentameter from a distance, yet this time the distance is from our own Prince’s Island Park. Though flooding earlier this summer caused the annual… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Bringing the bard outdoors
If you’ve ever been a member of a wedding party, you know it’s not nearly as fascinating as it appears. There are the fights, drama, duties and of course the shockingly repulsive outfits. Don’t feel like you are alone though, because these are also the circumstances the characters in the Pumphouse Theatres production of Five… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Dress learns to share women
By Emily Senger
With Calgary’s professional theatre companies on summer hiatus comes the retreat from the reliable to fulfill the thespian’s desire for new theatre experiences. Now is the perfect time to delight in the offerings of some of Calgary’s emerging artists. The inaugural IGNITE Emerging Arts Theatre Festival presented by Sage Theatre provides a great opportunity for… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Burning Sage lights up the summer
By Kyle Francis
In the late ’90s, an entirely credible publication called The Weekly World News reported on the discovery of a strange half boy/half bat in a cave near a small town in Virginia. A lot of rednecks picked up the issue on the way back to the trailer park; prompting WWN to do a series of… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Bat Boy–the dark freak returns
By Paul Jarvey
Haunting fragments of unidentifiable melody introduces Ty Semaka’s freshly resurrected brainchild, In Klezskavania. Beams of light reflect off an electric violin, slicing through the thick air of what will soon become the setting to an overwhelming menagerie of black burlesque, warped fairy tales and is-that-a-tongue-in-your-cheek-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me comedy. Smoldering after a seven year sojourn since the play’s… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Devil of a time