Apparently a reviewer was at the 10 minute play festival. That seems very strange to me but i suppose with the positive things he had to say i should not complain!
review is here:
http://www.pressplus1.com/theatre-reviews/10-minute-play-festival-ground-zero-theatre-calgary.html
it’s funny that mark and i thought we were mostly being silly but apparently we were “quietly heartbreaking”
This Weekend was everything that makes The High Performance Rodeo awesome.
With Freak Show, 10 Minute Play Festival and Woman in Black keeping me busy, I only really got to begin checking out the High Performance Rodeo this week. So this weekend i saw Pajama Men, White Cabin and Snowblower. It was a great weekend of art and community.
Pajama Men were hilarious as always, i swear i could watch those guys every day of my life and not get tired of them. every time i come out with my cheeks hurting from laughing.
Then there was white Cabin a truly HPR show. Russians doing crazy shit on stage. Their performance was extreme and dazzling, totally captivating. I have no clue what it was about. none. i am sure they do but i don’t, and to hazard a guess would be foolhardy. White Cabin is the kind of work the High Performance Rodeo is known for bringing in, work that will blow away, but also challenge, its audiences. It was a show that was engrossing and haunting laced with a feelings of danger and amazement.
Finally snowblower was just an awesome party with great djs and electronic music bands. It was wonderful to see so many people in downtown calgary just hanging out and dancing. It was a great collection of people and a ton of fun. DJs were super talented and there was a great sense of fun and community. I hope they are able to find money to continue and expand ‘snowblower’, i really feel it has the potential to Calgary’s nuit blanche.
The High Performance Rodeo was probably one of the reasons i ended up in Calgary, so it is great to be able be a patron again and enjoy such a diverse and rocking weekend!
We are incredibly lucky and excited to be putting on a workshop with Pete Balkwill of the Old Trouts. We are going to spend the weekend working with Pete and learning not only about puppets but about his overall creative practice. Take a look at the info and if you can please join us!
So we did it. Added a third freak show tour in the glenbow and did the 10 minute play festival. Got little sleep and ran on adrenaline for a few days. Not only did we survive it we actually curated and produced some fantastic work that we are incredibly proud of.
Of course now that it’s over we will have way more time… right… of course…except for
Puppet Workshop in February
iRobot Rehearsals in February
Leda’s circus show in March
Party in April
iRobot rehearsals starting in april and 10 day run with ancillary events in May
also gotta write some grants and start thinking about next year soon too…
i used to have spare time on my hands, now i dream of warm beaches and white sand but would settle for a few days undisturbed in my basement with mass effect 2.
Thanks to Leda we are debuting some sweet new Swallow-a-Bicycle t-shirts tomorrow at Freak Show. They are awesome, they look really funky. They also contain the best typo ever.
The name Swallow-a-Bicycle comes from this arthur miller quote “A playwright lives in an occupied country. He’s the enemy. And if you can’t live like that, you don’t stay. It’s tough. He’s got to be able to take a whack, and he’s got to swallow bicycles and digest them.”
the quote is going on the tshirts, which is great. except it says “A playwright lives in an occupied country. He’s the enemy. And if you can’t live like that, you don’t stay. It’s tough. He’s whack, and he’s got to swallow bicycles and digest them.”
“He’s Whack”. best typo ever!
57 artists. a third sexy new tour in the glenbow effing museum. crazy killer clowns, wild cat tamers, accidental tourists, siamese triplets, mermaids, lesbian camping, outerspace babes. freak show launches again.
sleep is overrated.
sleep when you’re dead.
