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Neanderthal Arts Festival: theatre that knows how to grunt
As reported here at PLANK at the beginning of the year, Vancouver is about to experience a new arts Festival. An initiative of Left Right Minds and Upintheair Theatre the inaugural Neanderthal Arts Festival takes place this summer at the Cultch.
The Tooth Fairy: how much are your teeth worth?
In this Preposterous Fable, young Abigail, “the girl with the greatest teeth in the world” embarks upon a journey. This is no ordinary sojourn mind you. This one is fraught with emotional sea monsters, melodiously evil pirates, a truly wet ocean tempest and conniving boat thieves just to name a few of the perils she must face. Of course life for Abigail used to be much easier. Her smile lit up the world, she sang with the birds, danced with the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. People would do anything for the young darling as long as she smiled that gleaming smile. But as with all tales of innocence, there comes a time when that cruel world that Grampa always gripes about, finds you wandering in the woods and offers you an apple. And poor sweet naïve Abigail just happens to be hungry.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf: slickly handled ribaldry
Edward Albee is one of my heroes. His dialogue is heightened, verging on the poetic, but maintains a ring of naturalistic authenticity to it.
Provincial Essays: haunting traces
Provincial Essays seems an odd title for a work of contemporary dance: it evokes pastoral traditions, and vaguely suggests the image of a public figure-of-note in his or her sunset years retiring to the country to write memoirs – indeed, the original essays by Montaigne were a grab-bag of reflections on everything from diet to politics.
