Entertainment
BY MI C HA E L A RI TC H I E
LEARNING FROM
OUR FUTURE
JANUARY 15 - 20, 22 - 27 Laughter really is the best
medicine—or so Calgary actress Michelle Thrush is
out to prove in her new one-woman show Inner Elder at
Lunchbox Theatre. Bear witness as Thrush retraces her
own true memories, transforming from innocent child to
wizened elder as she uses a hilarious study in Indigenous
clowning to reflect on the values her grandmother
imparted to her (page 48).
HIGH PERFORMANCE
HIGHLIGHTS
Looking to get out and experience the best of what
Calgary’s other rodeo has to offer? Check out these
high-impact performances.
JANUARY 5 - 7, 9 - 13 In her new audio performance
piece, Reassembled, Slightly Askew, Shannon Yee invites
audience members not only into her hospital bed, but
into her own mind. Laying in a hospital bed at the St.
Louis Hotel equipped with a blindfold and headphones,
viewers (er… listeners) retrace Yee’s disorienting and
agonizing personal experience of falling ill with a rare
brain infection, slipping into a coma, receiving a life-
saving operation and learning to move through the
world in a new way after sustaining a brain injury
(page 48).
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ONEGIN
JANUARY 5 - 7, 9 - 13 Tchaikovsky’s classic opera is
reimagined as a seductive musical, wherein a tale of
unrequited
passion unfolds
Empire of the Son
as whimsically
as true love itself
(page 48).
EMPIRE OF
THE SON
JANUARY
16 - 21, 23 - 28
Former CBC
broadcaster
Tetsuro
Shigematsu
examines the
powerful love
shared between
generations as
he chronicles a turbulent past with his conservative
Japanese father (page 48).
TRUE CRIME
JANUARY 23 - 27 There’s a fine line between a lie and a
performance… or is there? Torquil Campbell is about to
find out, taking on the role of 21st century conman and
murderer Clark Rockefeller (page 48).
SHUM;
SLIGHTLY
ASKEW,
COMPLETELY
MESMERIZING
HOT BROWN HONEY
JANUARY 3 - 6 This cabaret act is ready to smash
the patriarchy with hip-hop riffs and moves that kill.
Empowerment never tasted so sweet (page 48)!