December 2000 - January
2001
CALENDAR
Disco Goalie: madcap mix of hockey and sex
Jane
Miller’s wild and funny show about how she used
hockey and disco to navigate her teen years is coming to
Artword Theatre in January. Produced by splode
(Jane’s production company) and Artword Theatre,
Disco Goalie will be heating up the theatre
January 11- 28 2001, Tuesday to Saturday at 8 pm and
Sundays at 2:30 pm.
In
Disco Goalie Jane Miller is a one-woman a
capella band, whose unique vocal style delivers melody and
lyrics using a technique called "vocal percussion". Jane
calls it "drumming with the voice". Jane keeps the groove
going as she tells the story of her evolution from a girl
goalie striving to "keep them out" to a young woman ready
and willing to "get it on".Between
the ages of eleven and sixteen, Jane played hockey in a
girl’s house league in North York. "Goalies are like
nice girls", Jane explains. "Every self-respecting goalie
strives to get a shutout (i.e. maintain her virginity). But
what happens when a goalie becomes an initiator, an
aggressor even? Roles get confusing, priorities get altered,
and scores get into the double digits."The idea
for Disco Goalie came about when Jane was
rolling around on the floor during a warmup for the Theatre
Centre’s production Book of Thoht. The musicians
began "Play That Funky Music, White Boy", and Jane did her
best Solid Gold Dancer impression. Somebody who knew that
Jane had been a goaltender in her teens said, "Can you
imagine doing that with goalie equipment?"Theatre
Centre’s artistic director David Duclos said, "Jane,
you have to write Disco Goalie." He backed it up with an
R&D grant, and the services of dramaturge Brian Quirt.
"As I began writing, it became clear that this was the most
resonant image I was ever going to find for my own
conflicted masculine/feminine sexual identity."Jane is
well established in Toronto theatre and music scenes. She
sang lead vocals and composed songs for two albums by
popular indie band Wind May Do Damage. Her 1999 appearance
in the cabaret production of Carole Pope songs, Shaking
the Foundations, won her a Dora nomination for Best
Performance in a Musical."In
Disco Goalie, I bring my music performance and vocal
percussion style together with my interest in movement-based
theatre to create a work that tells a good story."A member
of the audience at the Ottawa Fringe in 1998 summed it up:
"It’s about how hockey is really about sex, and how
girls are really about hockey, and how disco is about
everything, and how your mother is everywhere! Great
show!"Charly Returns to Artword!
Artword's most popular performer returns with two shows this season. Charly Chiarelli developed Cu'Fu?, his hilarious and touching show about growing up Sicilian in Hamilton Ontario, at the old Artword theatre. Since then, he has toured across Canada. A one-hour version of the show has been shown twice on Bravo television, and the shrink-wrapped CD is on sale in Indigo Books and other bookstores. He is on the cover of the special Italian Theatre edition of the Canadian Theatre Review. What else? Oh, yes. He was co-host on the Miss Italia in the World competition on Telelatino.
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The
new script is fantastic. Mangiacake will be
every bit as wonderful as Cu'fu?. See them
both!|
2 tickets for both Cu'fu? and Mangiacake: $67 (regular value 4 @$22 =$88) Thurs 8 pm, Sat 4 pm, Sun 3 pm $87 (regular value 4 @$27 =$108) - Fri 8 pm, Sat 8:30 pm |
Pleiades Theatre brings Marivaux comedy
Last year, John Van Burek's production of
the enchanting 18th century comedy The Game of Love and
Chance proved to be so popular that John decided to do
another Marivaux this year. The Triumph of Love is a
little different from last year's offering, although it was
created only two years later. It is written in a mock-heroic
style that affords plenty of opportunity for humour. Part
fairy tale, there is also an earthiness to the play that
makes it moving.
Marivaux
is sometimes described as the "Mozart of theatre". Elegant,
charming, witty, his plays have an underlying toughness and
brilliance that turn them into something greater than they
first seem. If you've had enough of dirty realism, come on
over to Marivaux.
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January – May 2001 Four great
theatre productions Disco
Goalie
by Jane
Miller, directed by Brian Quirt (Jan 10 to Jan
28)
Total flexibility: If something comes up, we’ll gladly exchange your ticket for another performance for a $2 handling fee. You can trade your weekday special ticket for a weekend performance for an extra $5. |
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