Billy Bishop In Rehearsal!

October 8th, 2008 at 3:49 am EDT - permalink

 

Photo by Dan Kern www.dankernphotography.com

 

Why is this young man so happy? Quite possibly because Billy Bishop is now officially in rehearsal and going quite well. It looks like we'll get an extra show as well, as the 15th of November looks to be a go. Huzzah!

Also going well is Disconnected, which was performed (well, a small chunk anyway) in front of a very attentive young audience for the final round of workshopping with MTYP. The third draft is currently underway!

Sounds busy? Because it is! So, I guess I should get back to work!

 

A Look Into The Future?

August 18th, 2008 at 12:43 am EDT - permalink

With Billy Bishop on the horizon, I've begun to do some prep work for the project. Most of that involves reading, and I've been dutifully making my way through a stack of mostly dry texts about the life and times of William Avery Bishop. However, I've also had another side project that I finished up today. You see, this is Billy Bishop:

Billy Bishop in the flesh

You'll notice that the handsome young fellow happens to sport something that I (if you examine my header image for example) do not: A mustache! And so, after discussing the possibility with my director, I decided that at the very least I could grow one and see how the dang thing would look in real life. Well...

Scary, I know

In all honesty, I'm not as horrified as I could be. That being said, maybe I'm just nuts. I would never discount the possibility!

 

Another Fringe Bites the Dust!

August 1st, 2008 at 6:39 pm EDT - permalink

Well, another Fringe has come and gone and as usual it was a good one. Identity.com and Paper Jack both won Jenny awards and had fantastic runs, outdoor performances with Funny Box Theatre went over swimmingly and my one show with Bat Boy: The Musical went as well as it had any right going. Yay!

A few highlights this year:

  • 35 Shows seen, not including repeats for Paper Jack (5 of the 7 shows), the 7 Funny Box Shows or the 7 Identity.com shows. That makes this my busiest Fringe year by far.
  • A whole slew of great new people: In particular it was a blast meeting all the Bat Boy folks (Zach, Gwen, Adam, Hannah, Adrienne, great meeting out all) and the Amy Lee and Heather Marie Annis, stars of the hilarious show Morro and Jasp do Puberty. Many beers, great times.
  • Great conversations with many returning faces: Jayson McDonald, Rob Gee, Erez Ziv, Jimmy Hogg and many more.
  • I managed to eat from every food vendor at the festival this year. Tasty!

    Anyway, it was a fantastic year and here's to the next one!

     

    Identity.com

    July 8th, 2008 at 6:48 pm EDT - permalink

    After months of preparation and rehearsal, it's almost here: Identity.com, Brent Hirose's latest Fringe play. Following the story of two former best friends who reconnect in the search for finding love and a chance to recreate one's life using the internet, Identity.com examines love, friendship, alienation and the ways in which technology has affected our personal relationships, giving us countless new means through which we can communicate and with that countless ways to lose each other and ourselves.

    Directed by Darcy Fehr (Danger: Thin Ice; Brave Hearts) and co-starring Hirose (Jesus Christ, I'm Sorry (Best of Fest '06), The History of Theatre) and Gwen Collins (Picnic, Pericles (U of W)) Identity.com is sure to leave audiences thinking about their own relationships, to each other as well as to technology.

    View the media release here.

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    My Winnipeg

    June 28th, 2008 at 9:21 am EDT - permalink

    I saw Guy Maddin's latest film "My Winnipeg" at Silver City Polo Park last night. I did so for a couple of reasons: One, because I enjoy Maddin's quirky, interesting films and two, because Darcy Fehr, director of my upcoming show Identity.com is featured prominently in it. The movie is wonderful. A mix of nostalgia, rage, absurdism and outright lies, it walks a fine line that creates a different world that examines a Winnipeg underneath the Winnipeg that we know.

    Small films like this don't play long at major theatres unless people come out to support them, so please, find the time to check out the show, preferably this weekend. You'll be rewarded with a unique film experience that just may change the way you look at this city.

     
     

     

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