Old Trouts back at the Roxy
Theatre Network is champing at the bit to have The Old Trout Puppet Workshop back. The Calgary based troupe returns with Ignorance, a puppet documentary about the evolution of happiness.
You’ve read it here first. The Trouts are constantly plagued by a sense of dissatisfaction and they’ve gone searching for an antidote among our prehistoric ancestors.
Yes, the same ones that howled at the moon, stamped rocks with grubby feet and eviscerated mastodons. Now we, their sophisticated progeny, punch out daily tweets, blip through Skype and do hot yoga.
Ignorance shows how our brains evolved into gelatinous, bliss-sucking parasites. We are not a happy people. So how do we solve the problems without dipping into alcohol, tranquilizers and frontal lobotomies? Where did it all go wrong and how do we lumber out of the destructive maze?
Without Peter Balkwill, Pityu Kenderes and Trevor Leigh, Old Trouts would be a footnote in history.
Ignorance opens Thursday, March 22 and closes Sunday, April 8. The Roxy is at 10708 – 124 St. Tickets range from $14.50 to $29. Call 780-453-2440 or purchase online at www.theatrenetwork.ca.
La Liste (The List) is the first mainstage production with Brian Dooley, L’UniTheatre’s new artistic director, playing March 22 to 25 at La CitĂ© francophone.
Written by Jennifer Tremblay this solo piece, performed by Sylvie Drapeau, addresses the culpability of friendship.
The play follows a woman who has moved into a new neighbourhood with her husband and children. La Liste is a poetic and moving story of one woman’s sense of isolation while living in a rural town in Quebec.
A mother of three, she tells the audience of her attempts to bring order to chaos through a series of to-do lists. But when she forgets one item and it causes a terrible tragedy, she must deal with the guilt her negligence caused.
La CitĂ© francophone is at 8627 – 91 St. Tickets are available at the door. Visit www.lunitheatre.ca for more information.
Once again Festival City Winds Band teams up with the Concordia Community Chorus for Winds of Praise on Saturday, March 24. The concert takes place at the Robert Tegler Student Centre, Concordia University College of Alberta.
Works performed together include Jon Ness Beck’s The Canticle of Praise and Aaron Copeland’s The Promise of Living from the opera The Tender Land.
Tickets are $10 to $12. Call 780-420-1757 or purchase online at tixonthesquare.ca.
