Comic Vision, Canada’s most successful combination of comedy and fundraising, the Annual Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) Comic Vision Tour featuring top Canadian comedians Andrew Grose, Adam Growe, Mark Walker and Vancouver local, Erica Sigurdson.
When
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Doors open 6:30 pm – Show starts 8 pm sharp.
Where
Italian Cultural Centre, 3075 Slocan Street, Vancouver
Cost
Tickets cost $80 each
For tickets and more information visit www.comicvision.ca, or call 1-800-461-3331
A show to please your ears, tickle your funny bones and haunt your soul. Instructions for Modern Living is a dark and witty exploration of the hidden life of late-night dwellers. In the tradition of artists like Laurie Anderson and Marie Brassard, Instructions for Modern Living is a time capsule of the ‘wee small hours.’ Music and dialogue combine to create a tragicomic sound-montage of what goes on behind closed doors in urban and suburban society. Video images of nocturnal surveillance footage create a deliciously hypnotic backdrop to the tales of people who find it difficult to sleep at night.
“McGowan’s music really amplifies the impact of the dialogue. Sarkies is not just a skilled writer, but a fine actor as well... it’s a bloody good show.”—Sunday Star Times
Duncan Sarkies is an award-winning short story writer, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for writing one of New Zealand’s highest grossing films, Scarfies and nominated for Writer's Guild Award for Flight of the Conchords.
Nic McGowan has achieved critical acclaim for his work as a prolific composer, producer and engineer. A multi-talented recording and performing artist, his audio designs extend across the mediums of music, theatre, radio drama, film and television.
January 30-February 2, 9pm
Vancouver East Cultural Centre
Come see a show that combines all of the fun and audience participation of traditional pantomime with the popularity and familiarity of a truly modern fairy tale!
This is Garry Plotter's first day at Hardly Works School of Magic but he's got more on his plate than just finding out where his locker and homeroom are located. He must stand up to the school bully Drano Badboy and his henchmen Drab and Boyle, stop the evil wizard Luscious Badboy and Evil Wizard Formerly Known as He Who Must Not Be Mentioned from taking over all the other panto lands, hide the fact his school is magic from his insufferable Aunt Patootie and Uncle Vermin - and if there is time...maybe even fall in love.
Remember this show is completely interactive - Cheer for the good guys, boo the bad guys and talk to the characters as much you like...just be careful as they will almost always talk back!
reading and signing of
I MARRIED A TERRORIST
by Leon Kaplan
More info: www.BlogHeadPress.com
"Leon Kaplan's faux-memoir does for hookers what Portnoy's Complaint did for Jewish mothers." –Allan Novak, Loving Spoonfuls
"Leon Kaplan's comic look at the life of a lustful nomad is both perceptive and thoroughly entertaining. A new talent to watch." –Kerry Doole, Amazon.com
Is Leon Kaplan just another forty-something awkward, yet literary Jew oppressed by suffocating Yiddishe Mama, obsessed with sex, death and shiksas? In literati circles, Kaplan's new book I Married a Terrorist is being hailed as proof positive that the public is ready and willing to accept erotica writing laced with humour. That's big news to industry purists who have long resisted the slow tide of satire (or fratire, if you will), but it's only half the story.
Conceived and written by Melody Anderson, Peter Anderson, Gina Bastone, Colin Heath, David Mackay, Wayne Specht, Roy Surette and Beatrice Zeilinger with additional material developed by Darlene Brookes, Tom Jones and Allan Zynick Directed by Wayne Specht
The Number 14 has thrilled audiences the world over with its fast paced, satirical look at a day in the life of a downtown bus ride. Six of Vancouver’s finest performers strut, swing, sing and talk their way in and out of adventures aboard Vancouver’s #14 bus in this theatrical tour-de-force.
Like a self-help guru on crack, Christine Lippa shows you that you may be living your life on the edge of okay and not even know it. Watch and learn as she holds a mirror up to society’s conspiracies to keep you in suspended “okayness” when you should rightfully be thriving in the Valley of F#%*ing Fabulous!! It’s a one-woman, multi-media show that will leave you contemplating everything from bad footwear to pole dancing.
The unstoppable, inimitable, Just For Laughs 2x World Improv Champion, Dan Joffre THAT IMPROV GUY is back at the Shadbolt Centre for a guaranteed night of laughs!
Presented by: Vancouver International Fringe Festival
The Hottest Shows From The Fringe!
Voted Vancouver’s best Arts Festival five years in a row, The Fringe (September 6-16) consistently delivers an eclectic mix of theatrical offering, from around the corner and around the globe. Past year’s Pick of the Fringe performers (TJ Dawe, Charles Ross and Kahlil Ashanti) have gone on to tour Europe and play off Broadway. Come catch this year’s stars at the beginning of their rise to fame.
