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Valerie Salez / Bio
Civil Service
Come into the cold and keep an eye out for Valerie Salez’s impromptu snow shoveling antics.
Guerilla Snow Shoveling
Watch your step! Stay alert for guerrilla acts of snow shoveling!
Bruce Horak / Bio
Cancer Live
Cancer gives the cabaret performance of a lifetime! In this one-man, satirical cabaret Bruce Horak brings Cancer to life. A cancer survivor himself, and one of Canada’s only legally blind professional actors, Bruce brings a fresh and funny perspective to a disease that too many of us will face and that so many of us could use a good laugh at. Directed by award-winning director/performer Rebecca Northan (Canadian Comedy Award – Best Sketch Group, Gemini and Dora Award nominee, CTV’s “Alice, I Think”) "THIS IS CANCER” will leave you wondering how you could fall in love with such a deadly performer.
David Bateman / Bio
He Impersonated Flowers All the Time
Through the use of pastiche and self-deprecating comic collage this autobiographical performance poem takes the spectator and the performer on a wild and manic ride through the intercontinental adventures enjoyed and lamented by a mother and her fey son. A kind of post--colonialist parody of the places we call ‘tourist traps,’ this poetic monologue embraces locations as iconic, as ridiculous, and as sublime as Graceland, Disney World, Buckingham Palace, and Burger King.
The Best Part of You
‘The Best Part of You’ eroticizes a beloved animated cartoon character through the gaze of a lovestruck traveler who divides his time between Las Vegas, San Francisco, Hollywood, Calgary and the Grand Canyon. Betty Rubble, of Flintstones fame, becomes a fetishized ‘object’ of desire, and ultimately provides a vehicle for a complex, highly erotic, and comical critique of strict heterosexual, and homosexual identity.
Karaoke Monologue
Set in Paris, this monologue engages with a popular form of domestic and public entertainment (Karaoke) in order to examine the ways in which lovers self identify through each others character traits. Both comic and poignant, Karaoke Monologue exposes the brutally honest, somewhat shallow emotions that some of us experience in the face of romance, physical attractiveness, sexual desire, and popular song lyrics.
Betty Wyatt
An autobiographical dual monologue for one voice, Betty Wyatt begins and ends with monologic descriptions of a son’s heartfelt wishes for his mother’s happiness, and is filed in with an exchange between mother and son where the performer plays both roles, switching from face to face in a comic, manic, and contradictory conversation that exposes the truth as relative to any given perspective.
Ulysses Castellanos / Bio
I Was a Human Piñata
Every year, millions of piñatas are kidnapped from their homes in Mexico, and are “exported” all over the world. They are kept in “piñata farms”, until that fateful day when a little boy or girl’s birthday rolls around. It’s just too despicable an act. This performance is meant to raise piñata-awareness. It is dedicated to all piñatas, past, present and future.
Free Bootlicking
When I was a kid I saw a shoe-polishing machine and I immediately fell in love. It was a giant metal box with a tiny hole in the middle, for people to put their shoes in. I wondered, are they not afraid that the machine could malfunction? What if it just tears off their feet? Free Bootlicking takes all the danger out shoe-polishing machines by supplanting a real live human being for the machine components.
Chicken’s Must Understand D.W. Griffiths “Birth of a Nation”
I bought a 16mm copy of Jackie Chan’s film “The Protector”. While watching the last reel of the film, I realized that if I turned off the volume on the projector, the film took on the feel of an old silent Mack Sennet slapstick comedy (the last reel of “The Protector” is mostly kung fu fighting scenes anyway). So I removed the film’s soundtrack, composed a kooky new score for the film on the piano, dressed like a cowboy and gave a lecture about the film, which I presented as D.W. Griffiths “Birth of A Nation”, to a bunch of half cooked chickens, which is, incidentally, as ludicrous as the premise of Griffiths’ film.
Kazumi Tsuruoka / Bio
CP Salon
CP Salon is a two man show: Pianist Sageev Oore is paired with singer/storyteller Kazumi Tsuruoka. Through rhythm and blues they tell the love story of a man with cerebral palsy. Very intimate setting about 50 minutes in length. “ ..as dramatically striking as it was emotionally powerful. The most gorgeous moment? Tsuruoka and Oore jamming on the piano, their warmth, chemistry and joy lighting up the room.” NOW Magazine.
Tanya Marquardt / Bio
Lounge
Tanya Marquardt’s Lounge follows a lonely lesbian lounge singer’s search for home and true love on her last Canadian tour. Interweaving story and song, she takes her audience from a childhood in small town Canada to singing lounge in Las Vegas and a love affair with a showgirl. Both humorous and poignant Lounge features the lounge re-makings of songs from Queen, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Billy Holiday and PJ Harvey.
Tickets will be available at Arts Underground or
the Yukon Arts Centre Box Office January 11th: 667-8574.
Nakai theatre would like to thank Festival Presenter Scotia Bank, as well as its Season Partners, Northwestel, The Yukon News, Westmark Whitehorse and Air North. Government support has been received from, the Department of Tourism and Culture, Elaine Taylor, Minister, the Yukon Lottery Commission, The Canada Council for the Arts, and the Department of Canadian Heritage.
CONTACT:
Katelyn Simpson, Nakai Theatre’s Marketing and Fund Development Director, 393-6044 marketing@nakaitheatre.com
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