NORM MACDONALD
STAND-UP SHOW AT THE QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE
You’re doing a performance on Sept. 24. What’s a surefire way to get Toronto audiences riled up? Compare them to gravyless potatoes.
What topics does your act touch on? Unfortunately most of my act consists of comparing Canadian audiences to gravyless potatoes.
How do you explain Canadians to your U.S. friends? I tell them they’re exactly like Americans but are better at hockey by one goal.
Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Sept. 24
ISABEL BAYRAKDARIAN
AT THE T.O. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The Resurrection is performed without intermission. How many Red Bulls do you chug before going on? A healthy body equals a healthy voice. Years of intense vocal training have a chance to shine when I’m well rested and hydrated.
Relate the plot of the opera, the Resurrection, in terms of a big screen movie. Inception from the point of view of Marion Cotillard’s character, “Mal.”
Roy Thomson Hall, Sept. 23, 25
NICHOLAS CAMPBELL
NICHOLAS CAMPBELLIN THROUGH THE LEAVES
Tell us about Through the Leaves. Fleur de lis?
Through the Leaves. Oh, sure. I was looking for a vehicle that might be a little shocking, a little on the side of realism, kitchen-sink kind of stuff, that might appeal to a wider range of theatre-goer.
What makes it shocking? Well, you’ve got to come and see. It’s not something people expect.
Tarragon Theatre, Sept. 10
YANN MARTEL
AT WORD ON THE STREET
What can we expect from you at Word on the Street? I suspect I’ll read from Beatrice & Virgil. I might slip in some What’s Stephen Harper Reading? too.
What’s your current project? My next novel, The High Mountains of Portugal. It will again feature animals, set in Portugal with three chimpanzees. I’m looking at how we keep wisdom alive once the teacher is gone.
Queen’s Park, Sept. 26
CLAIRE CALNAN
CLAIRE CALNANIN THE CLOCKMAKER
What’s The Clockmaker all about? It’s a bit of a mystery that pieces itself together as you move along. It’s the story of a clockmaker who turns up in an interview room with a man called Monsieur Pierre, who suspects he’s been involved in a crime, which may or may not have been committed yet.
Sounds trippy. Yeah.
Tarragon Theatre, Sept 14
