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Thanks to all the artists and other talented people who took part in the 2012 New Waves Festival. They are: William Anderson, Franklin Agterberg, Jer Banks, Sharron Bertchilde, Nicole Busby, Michael Calvert, Barbara Campbell-Brown, Sandeep Chauhan, Kim Clarke, James Cochrane, Sam Connolly, Michelle Crowley, Mary Fraughton, Eliza Gardiner, Adrian Hough, Austin Jones, Hugh Macleod, Brian March, Gordon May, Jennifer Mann, Frank Moher, Nathaniel Moher, Justine Morrisson, Kimberly O'Neill, Brandon Patterson, Samantha Pawliuk, Jess Reale, Tanya Reid, Ron Ruckman, Michael Robinson, Cody Scott, Rob Shaw, Mat Snowie, Moira Steele, Mark Stubbings, Vincent Wells, and Katy Wiebe. Thanks, too, to our sponsors: The City of Nanaimo, The Howard Johnson Harbourside Hotel, The Nanaimo Daily News, The Nanaimo News-Bulletin, and the Vancouver Island University Department of Creative Writing and Journalism and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. It was a great 10 days!
By Melissa Fryer
The New Waves play festival is designed to help emerging playwrights develop new work.
“Doing new plays is a major part of our mandate,” said Frank Moher, artistic director of Western Edge Theatre, which is hosting the festival. “Grown-up theatre companies do new plays.”
During the next two weeks, the festival features staged readings of never-before heard plays, a full production of a new play by Mark Stubbings, and a question-and-answer session with Stubbings and Moher.
Presenting new work is the riskiest of theatre ventures – no one knows how the audience will react – and the most exciting, said Moher.
Posted by Frank Moher on March 24, 2012 at 3:04pm
A Nanaimo actress landed a “plum role” in the classic retelling of a time-honoured play.
Lorna McLellan plays Amanda Wingfield in Western Edge Theatre’s production of The Glass Menagerie, a play by Tennessee Williams.
“The pictures he draws with the words the characters say is just poetry,” McLellan said. “I read it for years and years.”
McLellan said she used Williams’s words to get inside her character’s head. Amanda is a fading southern belle, tasked with raising two children on her own in Depression-era St. Louis.
McLellan said Amanda’s pride and her vision of the world harkens back to her earlier, more comfortable life in the American south.
“It doesn’t fit with the world she’s living in,” McLellan said.
Posted by Frank Moher on February 11, 2012 at 4:27pm
Read the whole article here.
Mark Leiren-Young’s earliest memory of environmental issues involved the Ogopogo.
While a teenager, he found an article in his community newspaper about how the local government would spray the pesticide 2,4-D in Okanagan Lake to kill milfoil.
He worried about the health of the region’s legendary, but elusive, prehistoric creature, so he created a science project and interviewed members of a high-profile environmental watchdog.
“This upset me to no end at 13,” he said. “That’s my first memory of doing something environmental.”
The journalist, author and filmmaker found himself immersed in environmental issues in his professional career. While writing and researching his film The Green Chain, about forestry issues in B.C., he came across themes, ideas and quirks in environmental politics that didn’t fit the film but he had to share just the same.
He developed Greener Than Thou, a one-man theatre show directed by TJ Dawe, which touches on some of the environmental issues no one wants to discuss.
Posted by Frank Moher on January 26, 2012 at 12:30am
"The new Victoria arts study is a credible one. It was carried out by Brock Smith of the University of Victoria's business school. More than 500 people at performing arts events were interviewed. Almost 100 artists, arts-related businesses and arts/culture organizations were quizzed as well.
"Arts and culture generated not only $170 million in Greater Victoria in 2010, the sector provided sufficient work that year to keep the equivalent of 5,440 people employed. The sector also provided $21 million in property taxes. Impressive figures. And Smith says the study's estimates are conservative."
Posted by Frank Moher on October 21, 2011 at 7:07pm
Below: Morris Panych's "The Dishwashers" at The Acme Food Co. Downstairs, Oct/Nov 2011, featuring Barrie Baker, Brian March, Ryan Swanson, and Alex Szasz-Nicholson
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