The Cultch’s 2013/2014 season opened with Rumble Theatre’s presentation of Penelope. Written by Irish playwright Enda Walsh, Penelope tells the story of the hopeful suitors who flocked to Penelope’s home when her husband Odysseus was fighting in the Trojan War. Although that war has now been over for 10 years, Odysseus has still not yet […]
The genesis of The Rap Guide stems from a comment by Dr. Mark Pallen, author of The Rough Guide to Evolution. After seeing a sizzling performance of Brinkman’s internationally lauded Rap Canterbury Tales, Dr. Pallen dared the discipline-mashing rapper to “do for Darwin what he had done for Chaucer.” Brinkman took up the challenge and […]
In 1949, the Cuban writer and ethno-musicologist, Alejo Carpentier (1904 – 1980), coined the term the “marvellous real” to describe a particular kind of magic realism that is manifest in the arts and everyday life of Latin America. Eluding the expected through bizarre amalgamations, improbable juxtapositions, and fantastic correlations, the marvellous real is, as Carpentier […]
Western Gold Theatre presents Alan Ayckbourn’s smart and saucy farce – Relatively Speaking – from October 31 to December 1, 2013 at the PAL Studio Theatre in Coal Harbour. Directed by Anthony F. Ingram, the cheeky, riotous work follows a pair of couples – one long married, one young and newly cohabitating – who find […]
The Cultch’s 2013/2014 season opened with Rumble Theatre’s presentation of Penelope. Written by Irish playwright Enda Walsh, Penelope tells the story of the hopeful suitors who flocked to Penelope’s home when her husband Odysseus was fighting in the Trojan War. Although that war has now been over for 10 years, Odysseus has still not yet […] 