Tonya Jone Miller is an award-winning performer from Portland, Oregon who tells the story based on her decade of experience as a professional phone sex operator. This show was awarded the Outstanding Individual Performance award at the 2015 London Fringe Festival.

Tonya is unique and talented monologist. She explores not only the needs, desires, and intentions of the individuals on the other end of the phone line, but also humanity, her own bodily anxieties, and acceptance of herself and others. She lays bare not only her body but her soul.

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The show tells the story about Bumbels, whose plane has stalled on the tarmac. Clutching a one-way ticket to his dreams, with his heart (Kiki) and his mind (Fink) at odds, Bumbels must choose between clinging to the past or leaping into the unknown.

I would highly recommend joining the three adorable clownish characters Kiki, Fink, and Bumbles and embracing the exhilarating journey of taking flight through aerial acrobatics, cirque, physics, mythology, legends, poetic whimsy, and imagination. In 60 minutes you will have an amazing adventure and fall in love with...

Arts Umbrella—a perfectly intimate stage for this beautiful and tragic monologue that I think everyone with a family will relate to. A single airplane seat is perched at the front of the room/theatre, where sits writer and performer, Dolores Drake. She has nervously buckled herself in, ready to set out on her first plane trip to visit her granddaughter in Toronto. It’s been five years. Drake’s character is playfully chatty with the type of spice that we love.

Her portrayal of a hardworking and well-intentioned maritime matriarch is spot on. You will...

At the start of the show we are welcomed by Ian Ferrier, the storyteller and musician in Bear Dreams. He tells us that this company is from Montreal and that on their tour they have sought out a member of the literary community in each city to join them and share their art at the start of the show.  He introduced us to BC Poet Hillary Peach.  Hillary shared her poem about snakes and took the audience on an enjoyable emotional ride, asking what you would do if you woke up with a rattlesnake on...