[img_assist|nid=648|title=Blow jobs for the boys, Kirsten Slenning as Commander Kitty, Mike is to the left fondling his M&M's|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=384|height=255]By Michael John Unger
A few years ago at the "Theatre Under the Gun: Show Off Festival":http://plankmagazine.com/feature/another-48-hours-without-nick-nolte-sho..., the team of Matthew Bissett and Kennedy Goodkey presented a brilliant piece of theatre in which they basically played themselves rehearsing for their presentation at Show Off. They discussed how they’d done lots of different kinds of theatre and set out to try and figure out what they hadn’t done yet. They came up with a mathematical equation and graphed out four quadrants. The axis...
A funny thing happened on my way to New York City…at the "Gateway Theatre":https://www.gatewaytheatre.com/ in Richmond. On my list of must-see Broadway shows for a brief visit to NYC was "South Pacific":http://www.lct.org/showMain.htm?id=174; a revival that has garnered enough awards to make you go cross-eyed.
Take that New York! The cast of Guys and Dolls in Richmond
One of the coolest things about Leaky Heaven is their connection to East Vancouver, specifically to the Strathcona and Grandview neighbourhoods. This connection was in full evidence at the third edition of Blink at a packed Russian Hall on December 13th.
*Andrew Templeton* who thinks life is wonderful and is a sucker for movies with angels in them *Marta Baranowska*, the non-movie watching wonder, who likes to claim: "If it's a good movie, chances are I haven't seen it, but I will review the play!"
Marta and Andrew making up after their fight? No, Todd Talbot and Jennifer Lines in It's a Wonderful Life; photo: David Cooper
For _Brief Encounters 11_, Vancouver’s "The Tomorrow Collective":http://tomorrowcollective.com/ has again paired artists from vastly differing backgrounds, given them two weeks to create and rehearse a work of their own, and set the stage for the resulting creations at the eastside’s Anza Club.
Your quick thinking Plank Panel: *Ashleigh Dalton*: writer and community development worker who can teach you to tango in twelve minutes. *Rachel Scott*: writer and theatre gal who can make and drink a martini in twelve minutes.
Your Plank Panel rambling around a cramped castle:
*Andrew Templeton* who has never wrestled a pack of wolves but can be occasionally beastly, although generally he’s rather polite *Cathy Sostad* who is a beautiful Nordic princess who from time to time leaves her castle disguised as a peasant in order to slay dragons, return library books and get a manicure.
What does she see in this man? Steve Maddock and Amy Willis in Disney's (not anyone else's) Beauty and the Beast; photo David Cooper
The best way I can describe it is, sometime in 1986, I was 8 years old and I awoke from a vivid dream and it was all laid out in front of me: Baseball, specifically the New York Mets.
Sweetest Swing in Baseball: what if mike is a figment of gilman's imagination?
Your Plank Panel, singing their little hearts out for you: *Maryse Zeidler* who is frequently drowsy and wishes life were more like a musical *Andrew Templeton* who is never drowsy and knows life is a musical only that it’s playing in his head; this disturbs some people but he seems happy enough.
Jay Brazeau, a member of the Plank community wants to poke him.
