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PanCanadian Playrites Daily Arts Alert ... by Cathleen Bond Friday, Jan. 26 It's time for the PanCanadian Playrites 2001 Series. This is the 15th annual Calgary festival of new Canadian theatre and this year there are some promising works:
Ron Chambers's Respectable is an ebony comedy about two ordinary guys, Hork and Saul, who desperately need a job. They accept a suspicious proposition from a mysterious couple. The PR guarantees lots of laughs and "more than a few surprises about contemporary values and society's varied opinions of what is "respectable". Serge Boucher's 24 Exposures follows a family birthday party in suburban Quebec. As they talk, laugh, dream and digress, it becomes abundantly clear that they love each other for all the wrong reasons, but what's really important is that they love each other just the same. This is "moving, subtle play about the everyday heartbreak and joy of family life, by one of Quebec's most exciting new voices."
For more information on these shows and others, visit:
Calgary runs until March 4th
Broadcast Feb. 11th at 9 p.m.
A Hot Night: There are actually a couple of hot nights in Newfoundland this weekend as the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra hooks up with the Ed Goff Big Band for SHOUT! They'll be playing classics from the Fab Four like Yesterday, Michelle, Penny Lane, All My Lovin', Fool on the Hill and much more! Plus there'll be lots of jazz tunes like Body & Soul, So What, and Flight of the Bumble Bee. Sounds like a rockin' good time to me.
Peter Gardner & Jim Duff Conductors Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra Ed Goff Big Band With Mike Herriott on Trumpet Friday & Saturday January 26th & 27th, 8 p.m. End of Matisse: If you live in Ontario and haven't seen the exquisite Matisse exhibit at the AGO, get in the Minivan and make tracks. Matisse: from The Baltimore Museum of Art, is the show's only Toronto stop. All of the works exhibited were owned by Baltimore's philanthropic Cone sisters. Until January 28th Fine Tuning: Earlier this week I told you about the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's 2001 New Music Festival. Now I've discovered that this coming Sunday, CBC Radio is presenting the gala opening concert. Pipa soloist Wu Man and violinist Gwen Hoebig join the WSO in several Canadian and North American premieres, along with Murray Schafer's The Darkly Splendid Earth: The Lonely Traveller. That's on Two New Hours, with host Larry Lake, Sunday at 10:05 (10:35 NT) on CBC Radio Two.
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Red Lips by Connie Gault (the author of Otherwise Bob), features a missing ball, a talking statue and a stolen ring. Gault's main character Janie hits the road to solve these mysteries. Her journey changes her in ways she'd never expected, eliciting the age old query, "Is it better to stay home and live a life that's wisely temperate, or to cast your fate into the air, like a fisherman testing his reel?" Red Lips a magical tale about the comedic perils and pitfalls of personal discovery.
The Shape of a Girl is a theatrical experience of a much more horrific colour. For "one strange moment, Braidie thinks she sees herself and a group of her girlfriends on TV. But these girls are young offenders - accused of assaulting and murdering another girl. Braidie must confront her own capability for violence as she puts her own actions under scrutiny." The Shape of a Girl was written by Joan MacLeod, in association with Green Thumb Theatre in Vancouver.
Jonovision Hits the Maritimes: CBC Jonovision host, Jonathan Torrens, will be hosting the eighth annual East Coast Music Awards. Torrens is no stranger to the Maritimes. He's a native of Prince Edward Island, and returns to host the event as it moves this year from Halifax to Charlottetown. Shelagh O'Brien, winner of last year's Gemini (for Best Variety Show for the YTV Achievement Awards is directing. I had the distinct pleasure of working with Shelagh on the Achievement Awards for three years. This woman is a consummate professional and, to coin showman Ed Sullivan, the ECMA is bound to be "a really good shew." The star-studded guest artist lineup includes Holly Cole, Crush, The Jive Kings and Lennie Gallant, with more to be announced soon.
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