by Mark on March 10, 2010
The shows in this year’s SPARK Festival are coming fast and furious now. Tonight we open Suddenly Dance Theatre’s new piece, Agnes B and preview Tiny Apocalypse from Vancouver’s Rough House.
Tomorrow (Thursday) the first three of seven miniplays start. They are free to attend and will run at 7:20 pm and 7:40 pm. Get here early as they tend to be extremely popular.
This Saturday it’s the Midway party with Cranaoke (that’s Karaoke with Morgan Cranny and a live band) and a special one night only miniplay by Atomic Vaudeville.
Here are some of the sweet tunes you can sing with Morgan at Cranaoke.
In 2005 Neworld Theatre brought you Ali and Ali and the aXes of Evil. The Seattle Post said it “must be the funniest exposition of American foreign policy ever devised. But it’s not just funny. It’s also troubling and poignant.” The Vancouver Province called it “the best Canadian political play of the 21st century, and the funniest." (The Toronto Star guy also said they were “like a bunch of shouting amateurs” … he’s undergoing extensive re-education).
Now Ali and Ali creators Camyar Chai, Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef turn their idiosyncratic brand of post-identity satire to (yet another) whole new world. While the Devil President Bush has been replaced by a Nobel Prize Winner whose middle name is Hussein, Ali and Ali have been in Vancouver for five years, eking out a refugee claimants’ living in the back of a Falafel shop on the East Side, writing their new show.
The reading is free and the bar is open.
