Lincoln Kaye
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Orchestra in the mosh pit or vice versa?
“Circus,” to me, conjures up visions of spangly costumes, tinkly music, cotton candy, hyper-excited children and carnie barkers luring the rubes with promises of “death-defying” feats.Cognitively dissonant, then, to see a Chablis-sipping crowd of suave, adult Vancouverites packing into a high-culture temple like UBC’s Chan Centre for Opus, a live c → Read More
Vancouver Opera quaffs Donizetti's bittersweet "Elixir of Love" @ QE
A mercurial claque of ditto-head rubes gulled by a jive-ass conman with a mystery cure-all potion – sound familiar? → Read More
DOXes without Topses
It’s easy to lose sight of, but in DOXA, as in Life, oftentimes less is more.Some of the strongest entries in this year’s Documentary Film Festival weigh in at barely 10 minutes, on average.This allows them to avoid the Discursive Curse – the ballast of talking heads which bog down so many of the feature-length disquisitions in the DOXA line-up. → Read More
To Zero Mile and back
Please excuse the lapse in our Sunshine Coast coverage while Meilang and I had to dash off to California to welcome our new grandson (!) into the world. Apologies, espedially, to all the wonderful Coasties who helped make our visit so memorable. → Read More
Two plays at the crossroads of indigenous rights and climate justice
Truth and/or Reconciliation: audience co-authors Theatre for Living psychodrama and Itsazoo dramatization of Vancouver Observer investigative series. → Read More
Powell River: mill town re-tools for new millennium
It’s official: Powell River (or Powtown, as it’s known to its denizens) is now the “least polluted city in the world.” So says the Guinness Book of Records, and Guiness -- hailing, after all, from "dear dirty Dublin" -- ought to know.My nose confirms the good news almost as soon as I reach the town of 13,000 some 180 road-and-ferry kilometers north → Read More
Gibsons: where foreign flight capital meets artsy Motorcycle Mama
Late winter, on the Sunshine Coast, one thing not to be counted on is sunshine.You can reliably look forward to panoramic vistas, poetic mists, layered history, gourmet ethnic dining, cross-country ski runs, roiling rapids, oyster shoals and affable locals with yarns to spin and ample time to tell them. → Read More
Black take on The New Orange
From the moment the lights come up in Granville Island’s Studio 1398, we already know how “Topdog/Underdog” is going to end: with a “Bang!” for sure.The Seven Tyrants production opens with L’il Bro David Lloyd, centre stage, riffing a mile a minute to reel in imaginary chumps while rehearsing a dazzling flurry of 3-card monte “throws.” And right th → Read More
Riding the 'hood with Little Red
From The Cultch’s York Theatre on Commercial Drive to the Peace Arch border by bike is barely 49.5 kilometres. Pedal a few more turns (if you can get past the grim guardians of U.S. → Read More
"Elephant Wrestler"
When wrestling pachyderms, bear in mind the Hindi proverb:हाथी के दाँत खाने के और दिखाने के औरLiteral translation: “The elephant has two sets of teeth – one to eat with and the other for show.” Metaphorically it means “Things are not always what they seem.” So don’t be taken in by flashy tusks; beware the hidden choppers.Apt moral to draw from Indi → Read More
Fraying at the Fringe: Dementia Monologues
The audacity! To depict dear old Grammy in Auguste clown face. To pose her in a pink, plush swivel chair that she can only exit by toppling over backwards. To fit her out with a rubber nose and chin hydraulically plumbed to snivel and drool. → Read More
Bliss in b-minor
Unless you’re a classical vocalist or instrumentalist, you probably get to hear large bore choral music mostly in audio recordings or, occasionally, in church. → Read More
PuSh Fest concludes on an abstract note with Relative Collider
Unlike anything else in the PuSh Fest -- or for that matter any other Vancouver venue, either -- the Scotiabank Dance Centre's staging of Relative Collider plunged right into the performance without the customary announcement that the work was being mounted on "unceded territory" of the Coast Salish peoples.Not out of any disrespect for First Natio → Read More
PuSh homestretch: a maximalist oratorio and a minimalist fugue
First things first:Neema Bickersteth is a supernally gifted soprano. Her galvanic voice outshines anything else onstage -- sets, costumes, accompanists, choreography, narrative context. → Read More
Australia's PuSh offerings: antipodal opposites
Learning Strine from a native speaker, one of the first words taught is often larrikin –a mischievous rake, defiant of convention or authority. The term anchors one end of Australia’s self-described spectrum of national character. → Read More
Post-exotic puttyman Gabriel Dharmoo plays PuSh stage
Pity the hard-pressed Anthropologoyim tribe of Outer Academia. Bereft of grant funds and verifiable results, wordless song has long been their last-ditch Happy Hunting Ground. → Read More
Redshift brings edgy quartet to Waterfall atrium
Talk about immersive aesthetics! Last week's Fringe Percussion chamber recital left about 100-odd concert goers as soggy as if they'd booked front-row seats at the Aquarium's beluga show. → Read More
Solo tour-de-force recreates Baby Boomers' coming-of-age for PuSh audience
Here I am in a dark room, staring at a dimly lit, translucent cylinder, beguiled by amorphous figures, fleeting shadows and snatches of retro music. → Read More