Upcoming
There will be a reading of excerpts from Queen Marie, a play about Marie Dressler, the great comic actress from Cobourg, as part of 4th Line Theatre’s Breaking Ground, at 2 pm on Sunday, March 21 at the Peterborough Museum & Archives, 300 Hunter St. E. Tickets are free. Reservations: 705-743-5180. Maja Ardal plays the part of Marie Dressler, and the workshop is directed by Kim Blackwell.
Bozo’s Fortune, an opera for primary schools adapted from Gioachino Forzano’s libretto for Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, entered the touring repertoire of Shoestring Opera in March, 2009. Produced by The Shoestring Opera. Directed by Molly Thom. Arrangements by Justin Hiscox.
Puccini’s short comic opera is about greedy relatives trying to overturn a will and the trickster who outwits them all. With broad humour and audacious impersonation, Bozo’s Fortune is a wickedly funny fable.. Greed is exposed, avarice is punished, and love is triumphant. It features one of the most popular of all Puccini arias ‘O mio babbino caro’ (O my beloved Daddy). Theatrical surprises abound as two singer/actors play eight different characters, many on stage at the same time.
For bookings in 2009/10 and further information contact Shoestring Opera or Prologue to the Performing Arts
I was story consultant for Kissed by Lightning, a feature film written and directed by Shelley Niro, that premiered at the ImagiNative Festival in Toronto in October of 2009. It also has screenings at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco on Nov. 11, the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival the week of Nov. 16,, and the Santa Fe Film Festival, Dec. 3 & 5. It will also screen at the Outdoor Indigenous Film Festival in Finland at the end of January, 2010.
Kissed by Lightning won the award for best indigenous film at the Santa Fe Film Festival.