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September 2010

Wednesday September 8, 2010
Pivot Readings - Jesse Huisken, rob mclennan and Meaghan Strimas

Thursday September 9, 2010
Tear the Curtain! - Jonathon Young and Kevin Kerr

Thursday September 9, 2010
Vigil - Morris Panych

Tuesday September 14, 2010
The Trespassers by Morris Panych - Belfry Theatre

Tuesday September 14, 2010
The Olive Reading Series presents a night with Robert Kroetsch

Friday September 17, 2010
The Refugee Hotel - Passe Muraille

Friday September 24, 2010
David Homel at the Kingston WritersFest

Friday September 24, 2010
Adeena Karasick at the Kingston WritersFest

Sunday September 26, 2010
Carmen Aguirre - Word on the Street

Tuesday September 28, 2010
Ali & Ali: The Deportation Hearings

Posted: Wednesday September 8, 2010

Pivot Readings - Jesse Huisken, rob mclennan and Meaghan Strimas

Pivot Readings at the Press Club
Featuring Jesse Huisken, rob mclennan and Meaghan Strimas
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
8 p.m. at the Press Club
850 Dundas Street West
Hosted by Sachiko Murakami
PWYC.

Visit the Pivot web site for more information.

Posted: Thursday September 9, 2010

Tear the Curtain! - Jonathon Young and Kevin Kerr

TEAR THE CURTAIN!
By Jonathon Young and Kevin Kerr
Arts Club & Electric Company Theatre
Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage
Sept. 9-Oct. 10
$29-$63
604-687-1644 www.artsclub.com

Arts Club Theatre Company presents
the world premiere of
Tear the Curtain!
By Electric Company’s Jonathon Young and Kevin Kerr
Created with and directed by Kim Collier
In association with Electric Company Theatre
September 9 – October 10, 2010
Media opening: September 15
Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage
Presented with the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad

Visit vancouverplays for more information.

Posted: Thursday September 9, 2010

Vigil - Morris Panych

Hyde Park Theatre presents VIGIL
by Morris Panych
September 9 – October 9, 2010

Vigil runs at 8:00 PM on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, September 9 – October 9. Every Thursday is Pay What You Can Night; Friday and Saturday tickets are $19 ($17 for students, seniors, and ACOT members). Hyde Park Theatre is located at 511 W. 43rd Street. For reservations call 479-PLAY (7529) or purchase tickets online.

Hyde Park Theatre is located at 511 W. 43rd Street. Covered off-street parking for the patrons of HPT is available in the lot at 4315 Guadalupe Street, just north of The Parlor. You can drive through The Parlor’s parking lot to reach it. Evening HPT parking also available at Kenneth’s Hair Salon, just south of HPT, and at the Hyde Park Church of Christ on the northeast corner of 43rd & Avenue B.

Posted: Tuesday September 14, 2010

The Trespassers by Morris Panych - Belfry Theatre

THE TRESPASSERS
BY MORRIS PANYCH
September 14 – October 17, 2010

Lowell is a fifteen-year-old boy with no conventional role models. He’s caught between Cash, his born-again mother, and Hardy, his rambunctious granddad whose penchant for gambling and radical socialism has made him persona non grata in town. A mysterious murder in an abandoned peach orchard has brought Lowell to the attention of the police and now he must choose his truth. Or as Hardy has taught him, “There’s something in between lying and not lying. It’s called a story.”

In association with the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company

Visit the Belfry Theatre web site for more information.

Posted: Tuesday September 14, 2010

The Olive Reading Series presents a night with Robert Kroetsch

The Olive Reading Series presents a night with Robert Kroetsch

September 14 · 6:30pm – 9:00pm

Leva Cappucino Bar
11053 86th Ave.
Edmonton, AB

Renowned poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher, Robert Kroetsch is one of Canada’s most accomplished authors. With a career spanning well over 40 years, Kroetsch has received numerous honours, including the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for his book The Studhorse Man. He has penned 9 internationally acclaimed novels, 14 books of poetry, and 5 books of non-fiction, essays, and exploration.

Posted: Friday September 17, 2010

The Refugee Hotel - Passe Muraille

The Refugee Hotel

by Carmen Aguirre
Produced by Alameda Theatre Company
Date: Sept. 17~Oct. 4 (Preview Sept.16)

A Chilean family arrives at a Vancouver residential hotel months after Chile’s bloody military coup.

Check out the Passe Muraille 2010 schedule.

Posted: Friday September 24, 2010

David Homel at the Kingston WritersFest

Kingston WritersFest Presents
31. Worlds in Collision
David Homel, Alison Pick, Kathleen Winter, Richard Cumyn

Friday, September 24, 04:30 PM

Venue

Holiday Inn Waterfront, Bellevue South, 2 Princess Street.

Important: This event is not being held at The Grand Theatre, so please note the venue address above.

Visit this web site to buy tickets.

Posted: Friday September 24, 2010

Adeena Karasick at the Kingston WritersFest

Vox Performa
Friday, September 24
Venue: Islandview Room, Holiday Inn
10:30 pm – midnight

Wrap up your day with a mind-bending cabaret of spoken word poetry featuring the best performers working in the genre today, delivering their words right to your cochlea. Experience the sweetly strange and drolly funny Scottish-Canadian multimedia performer Sandra Alland; amuse-bouches from Adeena Karasick, professor of Global Literature at St. John’s University in New York; the soulful lullabies and hilarious diatribes of Ottawa’s Luna Allison; the electrifying rhythms of Vancouver slam poet/musician CR Avery; the outrageous insights of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam alumnus, the New York Lady Gaga of performance poets, Regie Cabico; & the provocative stylings of Brooklyn performance artist Todd Colby. Hosted by Cobourg Poet Laureate and spoken-word activist/impresario, Jill Battson. Cash bar.

See more about the Kingston WritersFest.

Posted: Sunday September 26, 2010

Carmen Aguirre - Word on the Street

Carmen Aguirre will be appearing at Word on the Street with at least 60 other authors reading from their recently released (or upcoming) books.

Sunday, September 26, 2010
Library Square and CBC Plaza
11am – 5pm

For more information, visit the Word on the Street Vancouver blog.

Posted: Tuesday September 28, 2010

Ali & Ali: The Deportation Hearings

Ali & Ali: The Deportation Hearings

The Alis are back! This time, Ali and Ali creators turn their idiosyncratic brand of post-identity satire to a whole new world: the global economy has tanked (sort of), the President of the World’s middle name is Hussein and in Canada, five Arab/Muslim men continue to be held with no charges, and no access to the evidence against them. How do you make sense of all that?

Cahoots Theatre Company

in association with Factory Theatre presents the Neworld Theatre production of

Ali and Ali: The Deportation Hearings

By Camyar Chai, Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef

Directed by Guillermo Verdecchia

Starring Marcus Youssef, Guillermo Verdecchia, Anita Majumder and Raugi Yu.

Designers: Rob Lewis, Michael Rinaldi, Barb Clayden, Jonathon Ryder, Tim Matheson, Cande Andrade

Co-commissioned by The Cultch (Vancouver)

Factory Studio Theatre

Previews: September 28 & 29

September 30 – October 17

Tuesday – Saturday at 8:00 pm, Sunday at 2:30 pm

Tickets: $15 – $32; Sunday PWYC

Tickets: 416.504.9971 or www.factorytheatre.ca

Posted: Friday October 8, 2010

Another Home Invasion by Joan MacLeod (American Premiere)

Another Home Invasion by Joan MacLeod (American Premiere)
Friday, Oct 8 8:00p
at Laumeier ArtSpace at Crestwood Court, St Louis, MO

October 8 – 24

Eighty-year old Jean is living in the same house she and her husband Alec bought more than half a century ago. Now, her husband is ailing and the couple is waiting to get into a retirement residence. Jean has her heart set on a facility where the two can live together with a measure of independence, but his rapidly declining faculties are putting that prospect in jeopardy. read more
Price: $15 – $20
Phone: (314) 225-4329
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Eighty-year old Jean is living in the same house she and her husband Alec bought more than half a century ago. Now, her husband is ailing and the couple is waiting to get into a retirement residence. Jean has her heart set on a facility where the two can live together with a measure of independence, but his rapidly declining faculties are putting that prospect in jeopardy. Their adult children, busy with their own lives, are of little help. Jean is left to struggle bravely with health-care red tape and her husband’s growing dementia, her vulnerability underscored by a meth addict who lurks mysteriously on her doorstep.

The play gives voice to a seldom dramatized subject: the way Western society treats the elderly. And just as uncommonly, it puts a senior front-and-center as a funny, angry heroine trying hard to cope in a harsh and indifferent world.

Like MacLeod’s 2001 “The Shape of a Girl” ─ a powerful look at adolescent bullying ─ “Another Home Invasion” had its origins in a news story about an elderly couple who were separated after 60 years together because of health problems. They both died less than two weeks later.

Joan MacLeod has been handling thorny subjects since she began writing plays in the mid-1980s. Her first full-length work, “Toronto, Mississippi” concerned a mentally handicapped girl with a wayward Elvis-impersonator father. Her 1991 Governor General’s Award winner, “Amigo’s Blue Guitar,” examined the experiences of war refugees. “Little Sister,” which picked up a 1995 Chalmers Award, dealt with teenage anorexia.

Featuring Donna Weinsting as Jean. Directed by Eric Little.

Visit this web site for more information.

Posted: Tuesday October 12, 2010

WordFest 2010 - Tomson Highway, Robert Kroetsch, Drew Hayden Taylor, Weyman Chan and more!

WordFest has announced the full line-up for the 15th annual Festival, taking place in Calgary, Banff and the Bow Valley from October 12-17, 2010.

Click here to view our full event listing.



To purchase tickets please visit one of our Box Offices:


WordFest Box Office
403.237.9068 • boxoffice@wordfest.com

EPCOR Centre Box Office
403.294.9494 • www.epcorcentre.org

The Banff Centre Box Office (Banff Events Only)
403.762.6301 • 1.800.413.8368 •

boxoffice@banffcentre.ca

www.banffcentre.ca/events/box_office

52 – Curtain Call

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Venue: The Banff Centre, Rolston Recital Hall

Start: 3
End: 4pm



Jane Urquhart presents Eleanor Catton, Katherine Govier, Steven Heighton, Tomson Highway, Claudio Magris


The 15th Annual Festival closes with a medley of up and coming names and well-known favourites.

Tickets are $15/ $7.50 for students & seniors – call WordFest at 403.237.9068.

24 – Thursday Night Showcase

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Venue: Vertigo Theatre Centre, Playhouse

Start: 7
End: 9pm



Dave Bidini, Will Ferguson, Merilyn Simonds and Wayne Grady, Jack Hodgins, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, Drew Hayden Taylor


Anything can happen when these lively writers come together on stage.
*Includes the presentation of the Brenda Strathern Late Bloomers Writing Prize.

Tickets are $20/$10 for students & seniors – call WordFest at 403.237.9068.

38 – Poetry Bash
Friday, October 15, 2010

Venue: Vertigo Theatre Centre, Studio

Start: 9:30
End: 11pm



Oana Avasilichioaei, Dionne Brand, Steven Heighton, Robert Kroetsch, JonArno Lawson, Priscila Uppal


Lorna Crozier hosts some of Canada’s top poets



Tickets are $20/$10 for students & seniors – call WordFest at 403.237.9068.

43 – Keep it in the Family

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Venue: Vertigo Theatre Centre, Studio

Start: 12:30
End: 1:30pm



Emma Donoghue, Katherine Govier, Anne Sorbie, Drew Hayden Taylor


The family unit is at the heart of these writer’s stories.

Tickets are $15/ $7.50 for students & seniors – call WordFest at 403.237.9068.

47 – Banff Distinguished Author Series Celebrates Paul Quarrington

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Venue: The Banff Centre, Margaret Greenham Theatre

Start: 7pm
End: 9pm



Dave Bidini, Porkbelly Futures, Katherine Govier, Drew Hayden Taylor, Judith Keenan, Peter Oliva, Rob Sanders, Jane Urquhart and more. 


A wealth of talent joins WordFest in celebrating the incredible musician and writer Paul Quarrington as his friends remember him through film, word and music. Staging by David van Belle. 
This event is sponsored by The Banff Centre

Tickets are $20/$10 for students & seniors- call WordFest at 403.237.9068.

48 – Poetry Cabaret

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Venue: The Banff Centre, Margaret Greenham Theatre

Start: 9:30
End: 11pm



C.R. Avery, Weyman Chan, Robert Kroestch, Carmen Leñero with Lorna Crozier, Erín Moure, Priscila Uppal


Powerhouse poets merge words, music, and voices to create an unforgettable event.

Tickets are $20/$10 for students & seniors – call WordFest at 403.237.9068.

Posted: Saturday October 16, 2010

Lillian Alling - Vancouver Opera - John Estacio and John Murrell

Lillian Alling
Estacio & Murrell

October 16, 19, 21, 23, 2010
All performances 7:30 pm
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
In English with SURTITLES™

Single tickets on sale now!
Subscribe to the entire 2010-2011 Season and save up to 32% off single ticket prices!

Buy tickets.

VO proudly presents the world premiere of its new commissioned opera by Canada’s foremost opera-creation team: composer John Estacio and librettist John Murrell.

In 1927, young Lillian Alling arrives in New York City from Russia in desperate search of a man called Jozéf. Penniless, she walks across North America and into the wilds of northwestern BC, following Jozéf’s elusive path. During her brave trek, she is embraced by a Norwegian farming community in North Dakota, incarcerated in Oakalla Prison Farm near Vancouver, and loved by Scotty, a lineman along BC’s “telegraph trail”.

Seeking freedom in the future but bound to a dark past, Lillian’s fierce determination and alluring mystery drive her into danger and forever change the lives of everyone she meets. A cathartic scene on the banks of Skeena River reveals a shocking truth and brings Lillian face to face with destiny. Her story will take you deep into the emotional heart of love and courage.

Based on a true story and legend.

About the Production

Conducted by Jacques Lacombe
Directed by Kelly Robinson
New production designed by Sue LePage

Lillian: Frédérique Vézina
Irene: Judith Forst
Scotty: Aaron St. Clair Nicholson
Kristian: Colin Ainsworth

Posted: Tuesday October 19, 2010

23rd International Writers & Readers Festival

Event #7
THREE VIEWS OF VIETNAM
CAMILLA GIBB, KARL MARLANTES, ADAM LEWIS SCHROEDER
HOST: JERRY WASSERMAN
8:00 PM
WATERFRONT THEATRE
$19
Vietnam has held a spot on the world stage for
the last 60 years and continues to be a magnet
for the literary imagination. Three novelists
whose lives have taken them to Vietnam
to research, to learn or to fight write those
experiences into fiction, with astounding results.
Adam Lewis Schroeder begins in French-
occupied Indochina and weaves a generational
search for identity, while Vietnam vet Karl
Marlantes tells a rugged tale of young American
Marines, dropped into the jungles, who must
fight not only an elusive enemy but also leeches,
monsoons and the reality of war itself. Camilla
Gibb’s story is set in contemporary Vietnam, a
country undergoing such momentous change,
even its tour guides wonder what the world is
really seeing of their lives and their past.

Event #41
LINE BY LINE
JON PAUL FIORENTINO, M.T. KELLY, ERÍN MOURE, JOHN STEFFLER
HOST: RHEA TREGEBOV
10 – 11:30 AM
PTC STUDIO
$17/ $8.50 FOR STUDENT GROUPS
In poetry, we let language off the leash, according
to former Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada,
John Steffler. Erín Moure, one of Canada’s
preeminent poets, holds a similar opinion, claiming
that even two words placed together can open up
a world. Together with M.T. Kelly and Jon Paul
Fiorentino, these four poets explore the shaping
of language at the level of the sentence rather
than the chapter, as fiction writers do. These poets
will talk, as only poets can, about the concentration
of energy and meaning in the poetic form. Set
aside some time this morning to get excited by
words as building blocks and the surprise of new
meanings contained in familiar words. Come see
some of Canada’s best poets
at work and at play.

Event #44
PURE POETRY
JON PAUL FIORENTINO, M.T. KELLY, DON MCKAY,
STEVE MCORMOND, MIRANDA PEARSON, ANNA SWANSON
HOST: BILLEH NICKERSON
1 – 2:30 PM
WATERFRONT THEATRE
$17 / $8.50 FOR STUDENT GROUPS
This afternoon poetry event is an annual
favourite with students, teachers and poetry
fans alike. This year the Festival has gathered
poets from across the country to show off the
power of the well-chosen word. They’ll converge
on Granville Island to get you excited about the
melodic line and the insights that grow out of
keen observation. Poetry is the distillation of
life and experience through language, and each
of these poets promise to deliver fresh and
startling takes on the world we share.

Event #47
FUNNY GUYS
TERRY FALLIS, KEN FINKLEMAN, ANOSH IRANI, DREW HAYDEN TAYLOR
HOST: CHARLES DEMERS
8:00 PM
WATERFRONT THEATRE
$19
Drew Hayden Taylor describes himself as “half Ojibwa, half Caucasian. That
makes me an occasion. A memorable occasion. A special occasion.” Be prepared
for a special occasion as four very funny fellows take the stage. Terry Fallis’ first
novel about political life in Canada won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour.
Ken Finkleman, best known as the writer, creator and producer of CBC TV’s The
Newsroom, has now written Noah’s Turn, in which his dark and satiric humour
comes through on every page. Anosh Irani can’t help but infuse his fiction and
plays, however dark things get, with a healthy dose of fun. Share a laugh with
these four gents as they discuss humour in writing.

Event #58
THE POETRY BASH
GEORGE BOWERING, TESS GALLAGHER, STEVE MCORMOND,
ERÍN MOURE, JOHN STEFFLER, ANNA SWANSON
8:00 PM
PERFORMANCE WORKS
$25
Always a Festival favourite, The Poetry Bash brings six poets to Vancouver’s stage
this year, including two Poets Laureate of Canada, George Bowering and John
Steffler, Governor General’s Award winner Erín Moure and renowned American
poet Tess Gallagher. The Festival is also a place to hear new and emerging voices.
This year Steve McOrmond and Anna Swanson fit that bill, exciting us with the
new directions of Canadian poetry. This is a formidable line-up, sure to please the
ear of language lovers everywhere!

Event #65
THE AFTERNOON TEA
KEN FINKLEMAN, PAUL HARDING, SARAH SELECKY, ALI SMITH,
DREW HAYDEN TAYLOR, JOAN THOMAS
HOST: PAUL GRANT
3:30 PM
PERFORMANCE WORKS
$33
What could be more pleasant and relaxing than joining host Paul Grant for a
thought-provoking afternoon of tea and tales from a diverse selection of Festival
authors? This event is freshly baked to warm your senses and stimulate your soul.

Posted: Thursday October 28, 2010

The Tempest - directed by James Hoffman

“The Tempest” by William Shakespeare
Actors Workshop Theatre
Directed by James Hoffman
October 28-30, November 4-6
Matinee: Friday November 5

For more information, visit the web site.

Posted: Wednesday November 10, 2010

UBC Bookstore/Library - Stephen Collis, Jean Baird, George Bowering and more

Upcoming at the UBC Bookstore/Library at Robson Square:

November 10

Stephen Collis (Vancouver), Joan Givner (Mill Bay) & Anne Stone (Vancouver) with Jean Baird and George Bowering (The Heart Does Break, nonfiction anthology)

Posted: Thursday November 11, 2010

Canada Speaks - Gabriola Island - bill bissett

In 2009 the Poetry Gabriola Society commissioned twelve literary performance artists from across Canada to create new works that will premiere at the 7th Annual Poetry Gabriola Festival in November of 2010. The project is called Canada Speaks: New Literary Performance Works by 12 Canadian Artists, and is funded through an award from Arts Partners in Creative Development (APCD).

The artists selected are:

Fortner Anderson, Montreal
David Bateman, Vancouver/Toronto
bill bissett, Vancouver and Toronto
Ivan Coyote, Vancouver
Drek Daa, Winnipeg
Ian Ferrier, Montreal
Kaie Kellough, Montreal
Cheryl l’Hirondelle, Vancouver
Evalyn Parry, Toronto
Robert Priest, Toronto
Richard Van Camp, Vancouver/Ft Smith, NWT
Sheri-D Wilson, Calgary

For more information, visit Canada Speaks.

Posted: Thursday November 11, 2010

The Madonna Painter - Theatre at UBC

The Madonna Painter (MAINSTAGE)

By Michel Marc Bouchard
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Directed byCraig Holzschuh
Telus Studio Theatre
Nov. 11-20, 2010
7:30 PM
showsite Showsite: The Madonna Painter showsite coming soon

Vancouver Premiere: To protect his parish from the 1918 flu epidemic, a Quebec priest commissions an Italian painter to create a fresco dedicated to the Virgin Mary with consequences both comic and cataclysmic. History, symbol and magic realism are beautifully combined in this exquisite parable from one of Canada’s finest playwrights.

Bouchard puts human nature under the scalpel and a terrible beauty is born.” – Toronto Star

Media Contact: Deb Pickman P: 604.319.7656 E: pickman@interchange.ubc.ca

See more of the Theatre at UBC Season.

Posted: Thursday January 13, 2011

Tales of the Lost Formicans - Directed by Robin Nichol

“Tales of the Lost Formicans”
by Constance Cogden
Directed by Robin Nichol
January 13-15, 20-22
Matinee: Friday January 21

For more information, visit the web site.

Posted: Monday February 7, 2011

Saint Carmen of the Main by Michel Tremblay

Date: February 07, 2011
Time: Contact venue for times

Canadian Stage
A country singer and darling of Montreal’s seedy red-light district, Carmen triumphantly returns to her old haunts after a visit to Nashville to hone her craft. Doing away with bleedin’ hearts and lonesome nights, Carmen now sings about the people in her audience: hustlers and whores who for the first time become the heroes of these songs, not just the witless consumers. This mythic tale of a nightclub singer who dares make art from the lives of those on the fringes of society is a seminal play from Canada’s best-known playwright.

Canadian Stage
26 Berkeley Street\n
Toronto Ontario

www.canadianstage.com/saintcarmen

Posted: Friday March 11, 2011

M.A.C. Farrant at Words on the Water - March 2011

M.A.C. Farrant will be appearing at Words on the Water (The Campbell River Writer’s Festival) on March 11 and 12 in 2011.

More event details to be announced soon.

Posted: Saturday March 26, 2011

Morris Panych's The Trespassers is part of the Vancouver Playhouse 2010-2011 season!

Date: March 26, 2011
Time: See event website

Vancouver Playhouse
From one of Canada’s most original playwrights (The Overcoat, Vigil and 7 Stories among others) comes a poignant, thought-provoking and sardonic drama. Fifteen-year-old Lowell is no average teenager — and his grandfather, Hardy, is no conventional role model. Whether urging the boy to pilfer a neighbours’ peaches, arranging his sexual initiation, or teaching him the finer points of poker, Hardy is the despair of Lowell’s born-again mother, Cash. But how far into forbidden territory has Lowell actually ventured?

Vancouver Playhouse
Dunsmuir Street & Hamilton Street
Vancouver British Columbia

See Vancouver Playhouse listing.

Posted: Thursday March 31, 2011

Another Home Invasion at the Arts Club Theatre

ANOTHER HOME INVASION
By Joan MacLeod
Director Richard Rose
A Tarragon Theatre production
March 31–April 23, 2011

Life after Independence
Relocating from their home into a home is tricky enough for Jean and her ailing husband without the added distraction of unwanted strangers appearing. An amazing one-woman performance drives Tarragon Theatre’s courageous story of confronting life’s challenges with humour and dignity.

Visit the Arts Club Theatre Company for more information.

Posted: Monday April 4, 2011

A Beautiful View - Presentation House Theatre

A Beautiful View
Presentation House Theatre presents Ruby Slippers Theatre’s production of A Beautiful View by Daniel MacIvor
April 4 – 9 @ 8pm Tues – Sat and 4pm Sat

A Beautiful View is a seriocomic trek across the intangibles of love, and about our affinity for re-writing history in its name. Two women, both camping aficionados, meet while shopping for tents. Their connection informs their choices for the next two decades, culminating in a quiet note of tragicomedy. The production features the acting talents of Diane Brown and Colleen Wheeler, with direction by Daniel MacIvor.

“The reason that I go to the theatre is that I hope to have experiences like the one I had at A Beautiful View.” – Colin Thomas, Georgia Straight

Posted: Wednesday November 2, 2011

Vigil by Morris Panych (with Olympia Dukakis)

Vigil
by Morris Panych

ACADEMY AWARD-WINNER OLYMPIA DUKAKIS (Moonstruck) is Grace, a woman of few words and the aunt of Kemp, who—after 30 years— has traveled cross-country to be with her on her deathbed.

Kemp’s problem is: she’s not dying fast enough.

Gallows humor and Kemp’s diatribes on humanity and mortality fuel the delightfully dark narrative of Vigil, but it is Grace’s economical contributions to the dialogue that give this delightful play its weight and profundity.

“Let’s not talk about anything depressing, alright? Do you want to be cremated?”

Nov 2 – Dec 18, 2011

Mark Taper Forum
at the Music Center
downtown Los Angeles

135 N. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Directions and Parking

Visit the Center Theatre web site for more information.

Wednesday September 1, 2010 in Meta-Talon

If Nothing Was to Happen in Autumn: Something on The Collected Books of Artie Gold

Garry Thomas Morse discovers Gold:

He imbues this particular book with a wonderful nonchalance that tempers the sense of desperation about—what else but the difficulty and often failure of language to serve as a vehicle for our thoughts and emotions, at least not without a great deal of tinkering. Artie Gold leaves behind one poem after another for us, “like a cake placed in a two hour oven / in a building with a bomb, not caring.”

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Wednesday September 1, 2010 in Meta-Talon

Terrorism: Today’s ‘Yellow Peril’?

Author Roy Miki studied the official language that stripped his Japanese Canadian family of rights. He sees lessons for today.

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Friday August 20, 2010 in Meta-Talon

Rational Babblerap with BABA Brinkman

Creator of the first peer-reviewed hip-hop show, Darwin devotee and science celebrant Baba Brinkman is intent on spreading the word, discovers Roger Cox

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Tuesday August 17, 2010 in Meta-Talon

Artie Gold - from The Collected Books of Artie Gold

Preview a poem from The Collected Books of Artie Gold (coming this fall).

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Monday August 16, 2010 in Meta-Talon

For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, and Again

It is a rare thing to make a love letter both dramatic and moving. There are plenty of mothers on the stage who get their moment of love and recognition at the end – even Mama Rose gets hers – but only after two and a half hours of battle.

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Friday August 13, 2010 in Meta-Talon

George Bowering - from My Darling Nellie Grey

Those / flimsy shoes / would never get / anyone through hell

- from the month of August (According to Brueghel)

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Monday August 9, 2010 in Meta-Talon

A View of The Madonna Painter

In his introductory note, Michel Marc Bouchard, ably assisted by Linda Gaboriau’s translation, warns us that his play “is writ in scarlet pigments, in holy wine and haemoglobin, all the shades of red that flow through us, from our sex to our souls. It is a collision of ecstasies, a bouquet of lies disguised as a fable.”

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Monday August 9, 2010 in Meta-Talon

The Seminal Transmission of Orphic Ghosts: A Review of Garry Thomas Morse's After Jack

Before Morse was a mote, Spicer delivered a series of lectures in Vancouver (Morse’s stomping grounds) in which he revealed the poet as medium more than artist, and inferring a certain talent—nay, absolutism—to receptivity as priority over composition. Far too clever for its own good, After Jack is a large rabbit-eared radio, indeed.

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Friday August 6, 2010 in Meta-Talon

Looking Back at They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever

York’s voice is never far from anywhere in this text. She explains how these rock writings were the records of people who recorded the results of their spirit quests, dreams and visions on the rock walls of the Stein Valley, and how they could be read and interpreted by any one who was properly trained to “read” them.

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Wednesday August 4, 2010 in Meta-Talon

Artie Gold - from The Collected Books of Artie Gold

Preview a poem from The Collected Books of Artie Gold (coming this fall).

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