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Acting Out! Drake Jensen moment of nostalgia is held for a couple of beats The album’s titular song, “On My Way To as we get our coffee and settle into comfortable Finding You,” was released on January 16. The Drake Jensen: padded chairs around a small table. video came out the week afterward on Drake’s On His Way To Finding Him The first time I listened to the album I no- YouTube channel. Some radio stations began By Randall Perry ticed there was a distinct lack of the feminine promoting the video on their websites and with in much of the lyrics. I’m curious why this is the added promotion from Drake’s media ap- atching the video of Drake Jens- all performing artists. Songs with great musi- so. “Who are you singing for? Who does your pearances the numbers began increasing. The en’s single, “On My Way to Find- cal hooks and heart-tugging lyrics are only the music speak to?” I ask. first week of the video release it got around ing You,” one can sense this is beginning. Drop some smoky sex appeal into “I’ve said this from the beginning, from the 1,500 views and after Drake’s media appear- Wa guy who takes great satisfaction from the mix, fire up a guitar and light the whole time I started recording the album. I wanted the ances the floodgates opened and the views took the simple pleasures of life: good home, package into flame. Stars are born that way. music to speak to anybody who’ll listen,” Drake off. Within a couple of weeks the number had good music, special someone. Country mu- The person behind the Jensen brand is robust answers. “[I wanted] to leave it open enough by surpassed 10,000. sic has always been made from this stuff. and smiling, a man comfortable with himself removing the gender as much as possible from Drake dismisses the idea that by dedicat- the lyrics, which is hard to do in country music.” ing the video to the memory of Jamie Hubley The album’s lyrics are open for interpreta- and taking up the cause of bullying he’s being tion. It doesn’t matter your gender, you feel that an opportunist. “I’ve got the track record in Drake is singing directly to you, exploring your therapy to prove that it’s not a bandwagon: story through the individual songs. four years of my life in therapy, once a week, We joke a bit that they could be country dealing with these issues. I left school at 14, a music’s newest power couple, given the atten- very early age. I went down a number of differ- tion of late. I look at Sean, whom I’ve only met ent paths and eventually gained my education a few hours before, who ponders, “It hasn’t really but I lost my childhood. I grieved that loss for sunk in yet. It’s a lot of fun, but even though a very long time.” the attention has really only started a short time He describes how, after reading about ago, it comes as a big responsibility, one that we Jamie’s suicide, he shut down for a week, doing don’t take lightly.” …continued on page 11 Acting Out! Halifax’s Queer Youth Theatre Intensive by Garry Williams and wrote and performed in A Very Cratchit aPoPo Theatre is looking forward to Christmas for Alderney Landing. Williams holds hosting Acting Out!, its two-week in- a degree in Vocal Performance from Mt. Allison tensive Queer Youth Theatre Training University. He is currently working on a Col- DProgram from June 8-10, and 15-17, 2012. lective Creation project at the Halifax Gram- This is the second year we will be offering mar School, and is a guest Drama instructor at this program. The program is open to queer- Kingsview Academy. identifying youth who are theatre-lovers or Originally from Cape Breton, Wilcox di- Sean and Drake. theatre-curious. With a roster of queer produc- vides his time between Halifax and Toronto. Drake waits in front of the house and the and where his life is going. It’s a little strange tions such as The Sex Play (2006), Café DaPoPo This past summer Wilcox co-directed and special someone arrives, steps out of the vehicle, for me, being his fan and asking about his work, at Menz Bar (2007), Julius Caesar (2010), and performed in Opera Nova Scotia’s double bill approaches, embraces. As they head toward the while at the same time catching up with an old the annual DaPoPo Academy Youth Ensem- of The Beggar’s Opera and Threepenny Opera, house, Drake’s smile says it all. A good man is friend, discussing what’s been going on since ble, DaPoPo is no stranger to queer theatre. directed Forerunner Playwright Theatre’s Na- also a great satisfaction. we last talked. But what is queer theatre? Who is queer? ked for Queer Acts Theatre Festival, assistant *** We’re at a Bridgehead café, Ottawa’s indie What are the new frontiers for queer activism? directed Daniel MacIvor on the world pre- I’d not seen Drake in a few years. By happy coffee chain. Ironically, this location is Drake’s These are just a few of the questions we asked miere of the touring production of Bingo! for coincidence I ran into him in Toronto the day old workplace. When we enter he points to a of the workshop participants, as they worked Mulgrave Road Theatre. Wilcox trained under the single hit the airwaves. He was busy mak- corner. “My chair was over there.” His husband, with last year’s instructors Kym Butler, Richie Stephen Cross, Ker Wells and Zuppa Theatre ing media rounds to talk about his coming the equally robust and smiling Sean Michael Wilcox and DaPoPo Theatre’s artistic director and holds a Master’s in Directing from Texas out, bullying advocacy, music and what the Morin adds, “And I was over there.” The shared Garry Williams on Voice, Body, Movement, State University. Wilcox will be directing the future holds. Political Theatre, Acting and Dramaturgy. world premiere of Daniel MacIvor’s I, Animal Drake Jensen is busy building a brand. Drake Jensen will perform in Guest speakers Kevin Kindred, Megan Les- in Halifax in the spring of 2012. There’s the outfit—cowboy hat, boots, sun- Moncton during the East Coast lie, Lee-Anne Poole, Bryden MacDonald and Wilcox and Williams are currently in talks glasses, well-trimmed beard. There’s the back- Music Awards week. Daniel MacIvor visited the workshop partici- with Adam Reid, Festival Co-Ordinator for story—boy from Glace Bay finds love and • Thursday, April 12, 9:00 p.m. Acoustic pants in the bright and colourful lobby of the QUEER ACTS Theatre Festival, about a col- follows his singing dreams. And there’s the show $5.00 at the door Triangles 234 Saint Cultural Federations Nova Scotia building on laboration on this project. QUEER ACTS, now music—the debut album a polished Nashville George Street www.trianglesbar.com Marginal Road, donated by theatre Nova Scotia, in its third year, is a week-long LGBTQ theatre country sparkler shot through with laid-back • Friday, April 13, 10:30 p.m. Showcase at to discuss some of these issues and share their event held every during Pride. The festival has East Coast sensibility, a great record for behind East Coast Music Week - Country Stage passion and expertise. presented local productions such as The Dop- the wheel or for kicking back on the couch. Manhattan Club 125 Westmorland Street This year, Williams and Wilcox will again pler Effect’s Logan and I, El Camino or The There’s a part of the Drake Jensen brand Tickets available at www.ecma.com offer intensive, hands-on theatre training for Field of Stars, Forerunner Playwrights’ Theatre’s that is inherently sexual. It’s a requirement for motivated youth. Participants will explore their Naked, and Café DaPoPo. own stories and identities through exercises, Generously supported by the Cultural Op- games, scene work, writing, musical improvisa- portunities for Youth (COY) program, Acting Regular Columns tion, clowning and movement. Discussions and Out! is now seeking applicants to work with activities will also focus on queer theory, and professional theatre to develop theatre skills, and explore what it means to “act out.” to participate in a series of workshops towards Groups & Services 9 • I Am What I Amherst 7 • Kibitz & Bitch will return in June • NSRAP Report 4 • The Sanctuary Williams is the founding member and the creation of an original performance piece. Garden 6 • The 416er will be back in May Artistic Director of DaPoPo Theatre. Last year We are also seeking queer-positive volunteers, he appeared in the original musical So… What guest speakers and sponsors to help us provide Deadline for May issue: Friday, April 6 (first Friday of every About Love? at the SuperNova festival, Hello, this excellent learning and growing experience month!) [email protected] • Online: www.wayves.ca • Sailor Café! at the Maritime Museum of the for queer youth. Join us on Facebook: Wayves Magazine Rocks! Atlantic, co-directed The Magic Flute for the Anyone interested in supporting Acting … and on Twitter: @WayvesMagazine Halifax Summer Opera Workshop (HSOW), Out! in any capacity, please contact dapopo@ toured Café DaPoPo in Berlin and Potsdam, dapopo.org. 2 — April 2012 — Wayves ago. Home base is Sydney, how- Apart from the social aspect of ever we host events throughout the the community, Pride Cape Breton Atlantic News Cape Breton Regional Municipality volunteers have taken, and continue (CBRM).
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