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theatre festival 2013 august 16, 17, 18 Welcome! Every day is a celebration of the Arts in this community of writers, actors, poets, painters, dancers, musicians, sculptors and potters. The arts are important to Gabriola Island’s economic and social fabric, and the Gabriola Arts Council is committed to creating opportunities for people of all ages and interests to engage with local art and artists. The Gabriola Theatre Festival is a key element of the Gabriola Arts Council’s annual program. From the successful first Festival in 2009, it’s been apparent that Gabriola loves performing arts. We continue to respond to feedback from audiences, volunteers and performers, and each year there have been improvements. This year—the exciting Fifth Annual Gabriola Theatre Festival—will be the best yet. May I take this opportunity to thank the organizing committee and the dedicated team of volunteers for your invaluable contributions. Thanks also to performers and their supporters who work so hard to keep us engaged and entertained. Thanks especially to you, the committed audience members, for your enthusiastic support. I look forward to seeing you throughout the Festival weekend. Jim Wilson-Storey, Festival Coordinator Getting to Gabriola Island Gabriola Island is a 20-minute ferry ride from Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island—see the BC Ferries website and the back of this brochure for details. You can also get here via float plane—check Harbour Air or Tofino Air for details. A transit bus will be operating between the ferry terminal and the Festival Hub throughout the weekend. Details will be posted on the GAC site as soon as they’re available. Parking Please avoid parking in areas designated for local business patrons. Parking is available in the Gabriola Elementary School lot, in the overflow area at The Commons, and on Lockinvar Lane between the South Road intersection and the rear entrance to Folklife Village. Tickets! Theatre shows ticket prices Adult tickets | $20 ($10 for children’s show) Under 16 years | $10 for all shows Theatre Pass Prices Any 3 shows | $50 Any 5 shows | $75 Tickets and passes are available online at www.artsgabriola.ca after June 1, and from Artworks and at the Festival Kiosk in the Village after July 1. A membership in the Gabriola Arts Council is the most creative investment you’ll make this year! Working for the Arts! At the Gabriola Arts Council, we value and encourage community engagement, while fostering connections and collaboration between and within community groups. We host three annual events—Isle of the Arts Festival, Gabriola Theatre Festival, and Thanksgiving Tour and Festival—while managing our year-round Healing Power of Arts program. Become a member today. A mere $10 will get you a bi-monthly newsletter jampacked with information about local art news and notices of cultural events, plus calls for artists and competitions, updates from the GAC Board of Directors, grant deadlines, links to other community and arts organizations, and the good feeling that comes from knowing you’re supporting the arts and artists on Gabriola Island. All of that for only $10! Sign up online or download a membership form at: www.artsgabriola.ca Gabriola Arts Council |PO Box 387 | Gabriola Island, BC | V0R 1X3 | 250-247-7409 | [email protected] Brochure Design: Nina Turczyn, paprikadesign.ca Street Art Saturday | 9:30am to 5pm | Lockinvar Lane See it! Love it! Buy it! Take it home! Gabriola artists and artisans will delight your senses, tickle your fancies, and soothe your soul with their creations at the premier summer art and craft event on Gabriola Island. More than 50 local artists will be on hand at this lively Street Art Market, featuring an amazing, eclectic selection of quality art and crafts, and one-of-a-kind treasures. Choose from delicate pottery, vibrant jewellery, stunning paintings, sculpture, hand-crafted wooden furniture, photography, glass works and more. Take time between shows, or take the whole day with friends. You’re sure to find something for everyone! You never know what you might see roving around! Street Fair Sunday | 10am to 6pm | Lockinvar Lane Join the fun at Gabriola Theatre Festival’s first Street Fair. Dancing in the streets! Plus art, antiques, clothes, colourful baubles and curios! ALSO: food, crafts, performers and a Poet’s Corner. Buy, sell or barter! Play games, learn a craft, tell a story! Come, have fun and stay awhile. Street Fair!—a treasure trove of gifts, ideas, and as much fun as you’ll ever have on the street. Bring your dancing shoes! The Shamanigans Friday & Saturday | 8:15pm to 9:30pm Sunday | 7pm to 7:30pm, 9:30pm to 10pm Where? Everywhere! The Shamanigans are an artistic tribe of heart-opening and continually evolving artists, musicians and magical merry-makers! Through music, artistic expression and play, The Shamanigans bring forth joy, bliss, laughter and transformation, offering glimpses into new artistic dreams with a brief flutter of the butterflys’ wings. Watch for them throughout the Festival weekend. The Shamanigans will be sharing Love Bombs, Circus Sideshows and Surprises Galore! On Saturday evening, at 8:15pm in the Festival Hub, join The Shamanigans for an Adult-only Circus Sideshow Trashion Event! Watch for Penguin Boy, the Two-Faced Man and the Bearded Lady. See Magicians with their Lovely Assistants! And more! Lions Pancake Breakfast Saturday & Sunday | 9am to 11am Start your Festival day with a delicious Pancake Breakfast served by the Gabriola Lions Club, and enjoyed with friends and neighbours. Pancakes! Eggs! Sausages! Orange Juice and Coffee! All for only $5.00! All proceeds support worthy programs on Gabriola. Gabriola Lions Club presents the 17th Annual: Concert-on-the-Green Canada’s #1 Event Band The Ten Souljers Gabriola Golf Club | Tickets $15 Thursday August 8 | 5pm | kids 12 & under free Neighbours Helping Neighbours www.phcgabriola.org Kids Corner Saturday | 10am to 2:30pm Sunday | 9:30am to 1pm Outdoor Stage Early till late throughout Festival weekend. Whenever there isn’t a show in the festival tent, you’ll find all the action on the Outdoor Stage. As evening approaches, watch out! The temperature rises! Don’t miss the frolicking fun, great music and hilarity with: Festival fun for the little ones! THE SHAMANIGANS Face Painting! DOGHOUSE BLUES You provide the face—we provide the paint and the painter! Dog House Blues Revue, a five-piece, high-energy rockin’ blues band Clowning! MaSAMBA The clowns are coming! With all their tomfoolery, juggling and lots of fun! Storytelling! Master storyteller Susan Yates will delight children of all ages with some extraordinary stories. Crazy fun, music and laughter MISS MARA’S DANCERS Back again with a new piece entitled Carnival ANNA LYMAN--JAZZELELE The sunny voice of the ukulele and Latin/Jazz/World music! Gaia Gypsies Gabriola’s own afro-cuban jazz fusion Gabriola’s own Belly Dancers shimmy-shimmy-shake-shake! TAMMY BLAZER & DAVID BOTTEN THE IAN PERRY BAND If you aren’t dancing, laughing or singing, you must be asleep PENNY SIDOR Playing classic and contemporary rock and blues JAKE WEST Sock Puppets Tall tales, jokes, personal stories and banter combined within a musical journey Intensely physical clowning and juggling. A dynamic presence to the stage G.R.O.W.L.S’ Puppet Shows CLEVER TREVER CHRIS RONALD Gabriola’s own juggling King! A puppet show with your favourite creatures. THE VESTA CIRCUS GROUP A folksinger combining guitar with melody and meaningful lyrics Mexican God’s Eyes Circus, magic, dance, theatre and wow! those costumes! SHED BIT O’ THE GREEN THE SUNSHINE CLOWN SOCIETY Western Canada’s premier Clown troupe-Circus, magic, dance, theatre and wow! those costumes! Make each one unique and individual. Have fun making art with yarn and sticks to decorate your home. Tile Decorating Kids will paint and take home their very own ceramic tile. Upbeat fiddlin’ soulful Celtic rhymes and songs about whiskey A mix of hillpunk, beachbilly and folktronica Plus The One And Only! MC Lisa Webster-Gibson! discovergabriola.com shakespeare & love call mr robeson Friday 16 August| 3:00 pm | 1 Act | 65 minutes Written by William Shakespeare & others | Performed by Garry Davey (Gabriola Island) Cast Members: 1 | Rated: Family An irreverent, adoring look at love-laced scenes from some of Shakespeare’s best-known plays including Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo & Juliet and others, as well as selections of poetry by Browning, Auden, et al—naturally dealing with the theme of Love in its many guises! The Performer: Garry Davey has been an actor, teacher and director for over 25 years and has appeared on stages across the country and in many of the popular TV shows of the 1980s and ‘90s such as Macgyver, The X Files, Cold Squad and Da Vinci’s Inquest. Theatre credits include Amadeus & The Miracle Worker for Chemainus Theatre, Night Of Shooting Stars for Western Edge, Twelfth Night for Rocky Mountain Shakespeare and All’s Well That Ends Well for Shakespeare Plus. Garry has worked with some of the world’s finest teachers including at the Stratford Festival and The Original Shakespeare Company in London. Friday 16 August | 7:00 pm | 1 Act | 80 minutes Written and performed by Tayo Aluko (Liverpool, UK) Cast Members: 2 | Rated: PG (Adult themes) Paul Robeson is a great and famous actor, singer and civil rights campaigner. When he gets too outspoken for the establishment’s liking, he is branded a traitor to his country, is harassed, and denied opportunities to perform or travel. This rollercoaster journey through Robeson’s remarkable life highlights how his activism caused him to be disowned and disremembered, even by leaders and descendants of the civil rights movement. It features songs (including a dramatic rendition of “Ol’ Man River”), speeches, and a spectacularly defiant testimony to the Senate House Un-American Activities Committee. One of the 20th century’s most impressive but overlooked figures is revived in this powerful, compelling tour-de-force performance. The Performer: Born in Nigeria and now resident in the UK, Tayo Aluko studied and practiced architecture for several years. He eventually turned to the theatre, and is now a full-time performer and self-producer of this play which he performs around the UK, the US and elsewhere. In loving memory of Jacob Chaos - actor, playwright, teacher, friend I will not worry I will not be angry I will do good work I will respect everybody I will be thankful for all my blessings syphilis: a love story world in a flapp Friday 16 August | 9:30pm | 1 Act | 70 minutes Saturday 17 August| 10:30 am | 1 Act | 55 minutes This madcap comedy tells the story of Vaughn, a struggling writer hired to pen a health pamphlet on syphilis. Against the advice of his best friend, Vaughn becomes obsessed with turning the pamphlet into a true work of art. As his sanity begins to wane, an old flame returns to his life and attempts to rekindle a romance. Vaughn must balance his artistic ambitions against his last, best chance for true love. “[Syphilis is] a rom-com full of substance and bursting with levity. With references to Van Gogh, Immanuel Kant and Christopher Columbus, the play is witty and well-acted.” —VUE Weekly (Edmonton) “...evokes Neil Simon at his best, but with the intelligence quotient ratcheted up a notch.” —What’s Up Yukon Who is Major Flapps? He is a dashing, leather-helmeted, grinning “Airman Extraordinaire”— the world’s only human airplane! Flapps’ only problem seems to be getting airborne, and that’s where the outrageous fun begins. Blending acrobatic comedy, zany wit and musical parody, Flapps flies his audiences around the world while enlisting young audience members as his flight crew. Warning: Extreme Silliness! “It’s easy to see why Stuart Nemtin is one of Canada’s most popular clowns!” —Calgary Sun “… splendid family entertainment.” —CBC The Company: Words Solution Theatre Company, including George Maratos, Justine Davidson, schools programme, and has been introducing Major Flapps to delighted audiences around the world since his first appearance at the 1978 Vancouver Children’s Festival. Stuart has performed on film, television and with theatre companies across Canada, including Green Thumb, Kaleidoscope, Carousel, Belfry and Neptune. Written by Peter Jickling | Performed by Words Solutions Theatre Company (Whitehorse, Yukon) Cast Members: 4 | Rated: Adult (Adult themes and strong language) Philip Nugent and Mary Sloan, is a vibrant, experienced and highly talented performance group from the Yukon. Written and performed by Stuart Nemtin (Victoria, BC) Cast Members: 1 | Rated: Family The Performer: Stuart Nemtin was the first clown in BC to be funded through their artist-in-the- cromoli brothers! the amazing impermeable underneath the lintel Saturday 17 August| 2:30 pm | 2 Acts | 85 minutes, one intermission Saturday 17 August| 7:00 pm | 1 Act | 75 minutes This must-see one-man vaudeville show features the acclaimed duo of St. John and Hasbro Cromoli. With 15 vignettes including The Rich, Dear Mary, I’m in a Gang Now, Pilot Talk, Cover Song, Nude Beach—the show ranges from the poignant to the political to the absurd, and features original music performed on ukulele, glockenspiel and melodica. Mild but hilarious audience participation.Winner of Best Comedy Award at the New Zealand International Theatre Festival. Glenn Berger’s one-man play introduces a logical librarian who has come to believe an ancient mythic character might be real. He has evidence to prove it including his primary clue, a travel book returned to the library 123 years overdue. As the overwrought, obsessed librarian struggles to piece together the cosmic puzzle, the audience is left to decide if he is on the brink of a spiritual epiphany or paranoia. “Simply brilliant! A tour de force.” —Spider Robinson, Bowen Island Undercurrent “A curiously funny drama about life’s most curious stuff.” —New York Times Written and performed by Lucas Myers (Nelson, BC) Cast Members: 1 |Rated: Family The Performer: Lucas Myers is artistic director of Pilot.co.Pilot, a theatre company committed to original work that reflects the audacity of the human spirit. Lucas has been creating theatre since his graduation from the National Theatre School in 1998. He performed and composed music for many original plays with Victoria’s Theatre SKAM. In 2001 his interests turned to collaborative creation and he studied with the SITI Company of New York, returning to BC to apply their techniques with like-minded artists. Espresso • Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner d! ! e s en atio ! c i L P Yum Fresh Food to DINE IN or TAKE OUT Located in the Folklife Village 250.325.2769 www.oldcrowcafe.ca Written by Glenn Berger | Performed by David Cameron/Kingbaby Productions (Bowen Island, BC) Cast Members: 1 | Rated: Family The Performer: David Cameron graduated from Theatre at York University in 1984 and performed in the inaugural production of The Dream In High Park. He has played major roles in film and TV, and co-founded Kingbaby Productions with his wife Jackie in 1989. Festival-goers may remember David’s full-length play The View which played to a packed house at the Gabriola Theatre Festival two years ago. lesbian etiquette part two more of the world’s greatest living oxymoron stationary: a recession-era musical Saturday 17 August | 9:30 pm | 1 Act | 60 minutes Sunday 18 August | 1:00 pm | 1 Act | 70 minutes S.M. Norgate, Director of Lesbian Affairs at the renowned Ladies Institute for Endless Rectification, takes you deep into the shadowy terrain of the modern homosexual woman to reveal what just may be the greatest social enigma of our time: How is it that when two of the so-called “fairer” sex come together, they seem to throw the well-mannered baby from the bathwater, and along with it a century of training in fine breeding? If you, or someone you know, suffers from lesbianism--or worse--celebrates the condition, you won’t want to miss this show. What do you have to lose except maybe your Lee Valley Tools catalogue and a few chin hairs? Under the fluorescent lights of real life, obligations and social niceties loom large, but in the world of daydreams, all things are possible. Stationary: A Recession-era Musical explores the lives of 8 young people at a moment when big dreams meet reality checks and the baby boom is just an echo. Saddled with crippling student debts and a recession-era economy, our young characters try to get by in a “yoga and sushi-swilling succubus of a city.” They’ve stepped out, bachelor degree in hand, to find not everyone can be a winner. The Performer: Sheila Norgate is a visual artist, performer, feminist, author, lesbian, and lover of and sound to tell stories that matter. Favourite adventures include Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead (2009) and Oh My God (2011 Vancouver Fringe Festival). Their presentation of Anton Lipovetsky’s FLOP! garnered a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award Nomination for Original Composition. STATIONARY was presented at Presentation House Theatre in April 2013. Written and performed by S.M. Norgate (Gabriola Island, BC) Cast Members: 1 | Rated: Adult (Adult themes) dogs, not necessarily in that order (especially according to her dog). Her paintings have been exhibited in galleries throughout North America. Sheila lives on Gabriola where she practices being a feminist with a sense of humour, and letting herself go. Come and relax with some tasty Festival-inspired food and libations in Robert’s Beer Tent. Hours 11am to 9pm, Fri Sat & Sun. Written by Brian Cochrane, Mishelle Cuttler & Christine Quintana | Performed by Delinquent Theatre Company (Vancouver, BC) | Cast members: 9 | Rated: PG (Strong language) The Company: Delinquent Theatre unites good theatre and good times, using music, text, light shylock candide Sunday 18 August | 3:30 pm | 1 Act | 75 minutes Sunday 18 August | 7:30 pm | 2 Acts | 120 minutes, one intermission A full production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice runs in excess of 2.5 hours with 3 interwoven stories. Shylock presents the dominant story: the deal between Antonio the businessman and Shylock the moneylender, and the drama that ensues when a deal is broken. A combination of Leonard Bernstein’s twentieth-century musical genius and Voltaire’s eighteenth-century wit, Candide is a comic fantasy based on Voltaire’s novel of the same name. Believing he lives in “The Best of All Possible Worlds,” our naïve hero struggles to preserve his optimism as he sails, flies and walks through war, earthquake, shipwreck, prison, prostitution, and more. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime journey with a jampacked itinerary. Written by William Shakespeare Performed by Antony Holland, Gabriola Players (Gabriola Island) and ITSAZOO (Vancouver) Cast Members: 9 | Rated: PG (Adult themes) Antony Holland: Antony has been performing professionally for over 70 years and has appeared in many Shakespearean productions, most frequently in The Merchant of Venice. His introduction to the play was at age 12 in an all-boys school where he was given the role of Portia, much to his disgust. The Companies: Festival goers will be familiar with the talents of ITSAZOO. In 2010, they teamed up with Antony to present Sharing Shakespeare at The Jericho Arts Center. He was so impressed with their work he asked them to reunite for this festival presentation. Gabriola Players is a company of theatrically minded Gabriolans offering workshops and performances throughout each year. Written by Voltaire and Leonard Bernstein Performed by DragonDiva Operatic Theatre (North Vancouver, BC) Cast Members: 9 | Rated: PG (Adult themes) The Company: DragonDiva Operatic Theatre creates wonderfully high-calibre opera that is accessible to both opera lovers and future enthusiasts. The company fosters a creative environment where artists are encouraged to learn from each other by engaging a blend of community members, students and professionals. Carol Martin Gabriola will surprise you! Come for a visit; Stay a lifetime! 250-247-9333 1-866-528-9333 Congratulations to the Gabriola Arts Council, artists, musicians, and performers. Gabriola is “The Isle of the Arts”! Festival Schedule Friday Sunday 1.45pm Festival Opening!Festival Hub 2.00pmMasambaOutdoor Stage 3.00pmShakespeare & Love (Theatre) Festival Tent 4.05pmBuskersOutdoor Stage 5.00pmThe Sunshine Clown SocietyOutdoor Stage 6.00pmBit o’ the Green Outdoor Stage 7.00pmCall Mr Robeson (Theatre)Festival Tent 8.15pmThe ShamanigansFestival Hub 9.30pmSyphilis: A Love Story (Theatre)Festival Tent 9.30pmCurtain Call ClubArtworks 9.00am 9.30am 9.30am 10.00am 12.00pm 1.00pm 2.10pm 2.30pm 3.30pm 5.30pm 6.00pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 9.30pm Time EventLocation Saturday TimeEventLocation 9.00am 9.30am 9.30am 10.00am 10.00am 10.10am 10.30am 11.30am 12.30pm 1.30pm 2.30am 3.45pm 4.45pm 6.00pm 7.00pm 8.15pm 9.30pm 9.30pm Lions Pancake Breakfast Festival Hub Street Art Lockinvar Lane Miss Mara’s Dancers CarnivalOutdoor Stage Clever Trever Outdoor Stage Kids Corner Festival Hub Gaia Gypsies Outdoor Stage World in a Flapp (Theatre)Festival Tent Vesta Circus Group Outdoor Stage Ian Perry BandOutdoor Stage Anna Lyman— JazzeleleOutdoor Stage The Amazing Cromoli Brothers (Theatre) Festival Tent Tammy Blazer & David BottenOutdoor Stage BuskersFestival Hub Doghouse Blues Revue BandOutdoor Stage Underneath The Lintel (Theatre)Festival Tent The ShamanigansFestival Hub Lesbian Etiquette Part 2 (Theatre) Festival Tent Curtain Call ClubArtworks Time EventLocation Lions Pancake BreakfastFestival Hub Kids CornerFestival Hub BuskersFestival Hub Street FairLockinvar Lane Chris RonaldOutdoor Stage Stationary (Theatre)Festival Tent BuskersFestival Hub Penny SidorOutdoor Stage Shylock (Theatre)Festival Tent BuskersFestival Hub SHEDOutdoor Stage The ShamanigansFestival Hub Candide (Theatre)Festival Tent The ShamanigansFestival Hub We acknowledge the financial assistance of the Province of British Columbia. Thank you to Folklife Village for their continued support of the Gabriola Arts Council and our programs.