Last Friday night I was banned from the Guild’s front row if I wear red and come to a comedy. I couldn’t control myself. The play is way too funny for me, and so I was laughing–and I plead my case to Artsnet. Sometimes, laughing is uncontrollable. What is controllable, I’ll admit, is the color [...]
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The Guild’s Boston Marriage witty, fun, screamin’ good 2 comments
Gross Heart: Much to Love about Mump and Smoot Leave a comment
Canadian clowns, Mump and Smoot (with Thug), were in Whitehorse tonight in a revival of their first show together, Something. I was led to believe it was going to be scary, or disturbing–but these were not scary clowns. While there are some grotesque moments, there’s a charming show beneath the grossness. It stems from the [...]
The Truth and the Narrative in Beauty: Compagnie Marie Chouinard’s “The Golden Mean” 1 comment
To the slow, pounding, pulsing kettledrum, its waves of sound hitting the audience, the two sheen-fabric wrapped shapes on the stage slowly writhe and discard their stiff shimmering sheaths. So begins Marie Chouinard’s The Golden Mean, restaged for another amazing tour. I would have a hard time describing what happens. It’s modern dance, but the [...]
Is there no Sincerity in a Marketing Director? 2 comments
I was lucky enough to get a dream job: being a marketing director for the Yukon Arts Centre. The Arts Centre is a venue for a lot of non-local acts (and does host lots of local acts and artists as well) that come through Whitehorse, and into the communities. It encompasses not only the actual [...]
There Are Stories You’ve Never Heard, Brilliantly Told: a review of The River 1 comment
I Claudius, I Gertrude, I Polonius, I Hamlet: the humanity and unity of Bhaneja’s Hamlet {solo} 3 comments
I just returned from a brilliant rendition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Yukon Arts Centre. One man, Raoul Bhaneja, did the whole play–or an edited version of the whole play–but he did every part, not just Hamlet’s soliloquies. He had a box of light and an edge of darkness that he ran around making us [...]
Hamlet: The Precipice of Belief and the Validity of Witness 1 comment
I’m going to see Raoul Bhaneja’s one-man performance of Hamlet on Friday at the Yukon Arts Centre. I’ve heard good things about it, and saw a good article in the Yukon News, and I love Shakespeare, but I’m going to see it because of the way Hamlet speaks about “belief.” One of the main questions, [...]
Longest Night features aliens, musicians, wacky fun, and lunar eclipse 1 comment
Alien love songs, alien films, dances with aliens, UFO sighting highlights over the last fifty years, not to mention the sounds of the Longest Night Ensemble with Peggy Lee, Mary Margaret O’Hara and Daniel Janke (with a couple of Christmas songs in the mix)… I am truly thrilled to be a part of such an [...]
Researching for Longest Night (Dec 20, 21): We Are Not Alone Leave a comment
Researching for Longest Night, I was told that Daniel Janke wanted real reports of UFOs during my segments. Over the last week of researching, I’ve become a bit jittery. There’s a lot more than I really want to think about. Check out this footage from NASA. Don’t know about you. But when I come [...]
Aboriginal Playwright Reading Series begins Wed. June 23 Leave a comment
Gwaandak Theatre is putting on a reading series this summer in Whitehorse, featuring three plays written by First Nations playwrights, borrowing the skills of some local First Nation actors—some who are brand new to the theatre stage. I’m excited to see these plays put on as readings. They’ll really showcase what aboriginal playwrights are doing [...]
