AskÎwan took the audience on a journey at once peaceful and intensely introspective. Performed by a quartet consisting of a traditional drummer, cellist, guitarist/synth player and a videographer, the show consisted of soundscapes layered over subtly shifting visuals. It seemed shaped to give audiences an Indigenous view of time as a cyclical journey that we are only one piece of. Through a fusion of technology and human-generated sound, we are given the chance to resee the world around us and the world we share.
Theatre
Khalil Khalil forces us to ask what a name means. The performance's sole character, Khalil Albatran, was named after his older brother killed in the First Intifada (a Palestinian uprising). Through the performance, we are called on to witness him bear the weight of a name that means so much in the world he inhabits and yet does not quite reach him in his own life.
By Matt Fraser
The Family Crow is an entertaining murder mystery puppetry show for grown-ups. The whole cast consists of one man and his puppet playing all of the characters. What best describes the show is: Puppets, puns and mystery.
Sad Girl Songs is a one-woman comedy show created, written and performed by American comedian Gwen Coburn. The show is a musical comedy with a feminist message. It blends humor and drama in equal measures and tells a very personal story.
Spooky and Gay is a queer horror storytelling cabaret written and performed by award-winning playwright-performer, Bruce Ryan Costella. The cabaret is a one person show featuring scary stories, songs and standup.
Styled as a club-ready country girl from the early 2000’s, complete with big hair and loud mouth, the charismatic Tabby, played by Emma Slipp, opens Holiday at the Elbow Room Café with a bellowing rendition of the show's theme song. The play, written by Dave Deveau and directed by Cameron Mackenzie, traps a small gro
What better way to spend the depressing end of Summer than at an improv show on Granville Island?