One Yellow High Rabbit’s 28th Annual Performance Calgary’s International Festival Rodeo of the Arts Your complimentary OFFICIAL FESTIVAL GUIDE January 9 – February 1, 2014 hprodeo.ca • @hprodeo • facebook.com/hprodeo 2014 High Performance Rodeo See pages 18-19 for full festival schedule Message from The One Yellow Rabbit Welcome Executive Director & Board of Directors Table of Contents Our mission states: Create Six months ago we were in the thick • Chris Gibbs • page 23 and present vital, surprising of the devastation of this summer’s Antoine Feval Gob Squad’s Kitchen performance experiences floods. It was a trying time. Now that (You’ve Never Had It So Good) Agokwe • Waawaate Fobister • page 16 that engage and reward our we are beginning to lift our heads from Gob Squad • page 9 community. the work of recovery, we hope that our All the Way Cabaret • page 21 HPR offerings remind us all that we How iRan: Three Plays for iPod The role of the Board of Productive Obsession • page 27 have much to value in our great city. • KDOONS and WYRD • page 13 Directors and Executive BOOM Director in delivering on We’re proud to be a part of contributing • page 32 A Brimful of Asha Laycraft Lounge & Pony Up Room our ambitious mission to Calgary’s evolving cultural experience. Why Not Theatre • page 16 is to ensure you get Munich Now To all of our partners, sponsors, that promised reward One Yellow Rabbit Ensemble • page 5 collaborators, artists, and patrons – Calgary Carillon Celebration: through good governance, Thank you. You rock because you Tower - Trees • Tona Ohama • page 29 sustainability and Of Fighting Age Col Cseke, make this city more diverse and a vitality within the OYR • better place to live. Club Carousel: A Cabaret Celebration of Christopher Duthie & David van Belle page 27 organization. We are Calgary’s Gay History energized and enthused We send a heartfelt thanks to all of our Third Street Theatre & the Calgary Gay History ProArts@Noon • page 26 by the trust that patrons, TEAM RODEO volunteers and Team Rodeo. You rock Project • page 20 funders and community 6.0: How Heap and Pebble Front Row: Joshua Dalledonne, Michael Green & Erin O’Connor because of your commitment, courage, Back Row: Noree Claerhout, Steven Gallant, Todd Hawkwood, leaders have put in our energy and integrity in rolling out this Do You Want What I Have Got? Took on the World and Won Johnny Dunn & Ann Connors • Missing: Dean Bareham, organization; that trust has fabulous festival. A Craigslist Cantata Northern Light Theatre • page 25 Brian Close, Marisa Magus, Scott Morris, Paul Moss, translated into donations, Veda Hille, Bill Richardson & Amiel Gladstone So come one and all. Marvel, revel, Darcy Parke & Brad Walker • photo credit: Trudie Lee awards, critical acclaim and page 11 Super Night Shot • Gob Squad • page 9 financial stability. laugh and cry – at the 28th annual High Performance Rodeo. Welcome to the 2014 High Performance Enbridge presents The Walrus Talks: 10-Minute Play Festival We’d like to continue building strong Downstage & Guests • page 25 Rodeo! Be prepared to have your community, one relationship at a time. Erin O’Connor, Tomorrow • page 15 soul tattooed by the remarkable Executive Director, One Yellow Rabbit If you see any one of us – and we’ll be Triangular Theories of Love performances in this year’s lineup of Garter Girls Cabaret starring wearing our snazzy OYR pins – please W&M Physical Theatre • page 26 boundary-pushing art experiences. Chris Ollenberger, Peekaboo Pointe • page 20 let us know how we’re doing. Let’s have Board Chair, One Yellow Rabbit At OYR we live and breathe the art a conversation. A good place to find us +15 Year of the Horse Musical Ride Green Fools Theatre & Guests • page 29 we create and the culture we are able during HPR is in the Laycraft Lounge to share with our Calgary audiences. aka the rodeo bar. Young Drunk Punk Bruce McCulloch • page 7 Message from the High Performance Rodeo Curator & producer Count ‘em – Twenty Eight Years of we have with so many of Calgary’s It’s clear to us that January is not the Full schedule - pages 18 & 19 edgy, bold, original entertainment. major organizations, without whom month for tropical winter vacation. It’s we would literally cease to operate. Staycation Month in Calgary! Join us Venue listings & Map - Page 17 And we are still high in the saddle, to Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, and help create the heat that makes aptly use a Calgary metaphor. After pardners! this traditionally cold dark month, the all, isn’t the High Performance Rodeo, hottest, brightest of the year. Purchase Your Tickets* Passes and Group Tickets Student Rush in its own way, a metaphor for this With your help, the High city and its evolution? Performance Rodeo has become the Online at hprodeo.ca or at the EPCOR Available by phone or in person at the Students with valid student ID receive standard bearer of what a full-on CENTRE Box Office at epcorcentre. EPCOR CENTRE Box Office. discounted tickets for participating This festival belongs to Calgary. We Ann Connors community-based international-in- org shows, 15 minutes before showtime. built it and while doing so we built a Producer, High Performance Rodeo The 2014 High Performance Rodeo scope festival looks like. 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Produced by One Yellow Rabbit Munich Now Written and directed by Blake Brooker Translated by Frank Heibert Performed by the One Yellow Rabbit Ensemble January 14 Preview Performance @ 8:00pm* January 15 - 25 @ 8:00 pm Big Secret Theatre From $38 • 65 minutes (no intermission) oyr.org Always pushing the In the television studio of a From the internationally A CNOOC LIMITED COMPANY boundaries, Calgary’s favourite weekly German talk show, a recognized ensemble that theatre ensemble premieres hard-hitting journalist knocks brought you Kawasaki their latest creation. heads with a testy celebrity Exit and Gilgamesh La-Z-Boy. chef while interviewing their This show is a must for OYR In true Rabbit style, Munich special guest - a lapsed pop fans and anyone who loves to Now is a scathing examination star on a book tour. Munich romp in the absurd. of media absurdity. Now is the second installment in One Yellow Rabbit’s Tangled Tongue Trilogy. *Tickets for the Preview performance on January 14, @ 8:00pm, will be available exclusively at the door of the theatre two hours prior to show time. All tickets for this special performance are $10. 2014 High Performance Rodeo Tickets: 403.294.9494 • Information: 403.294.7411 4 See pages 18-19 for full festival schedule hprodeo.ca • @hprodeo • #hprodeo • facebook.com/hprodeo 5 Presented by One Yellow Rabbit Young Drunk Punk Written and performed by Bruce McCulloch Directed by Blake Brooker January 16 – 18 @ 8:00 pm Martha Cohen Theatre From $32 70 minutes (no intermission) The return of Calgary’s original young drunk punk. Comedian, writer, director and legendary Kid in the Hall Bruce McCulloch combines stand-up, live music and assorted autobiographical insights in Young Drunk Punk. Bruce’s new solo show chronicles his journey from wild early days as a ‘young punk’ in 80s Alberta, to his flannel plaid days and futon nights in 90s Toronto, to becoming a ‘pajama-clad dad’ living in the Hollywood Hills. Peppered with moments of surprising poignancy, this evening of comedy proves that although this infamous Kid may be all grown up, his singular brand of humour and signature wit remain firmly intact. You loved the Kids in the Hall. You’ll love this Kid, super-charged on the wisdom of age. Tickets: 403.294.9494 • Information: 403.294.7411 hprodeo.ca • @hprodeo • #hprodeo • facebook.com/hprodeo 7 Presented by One Yellow Rabbit Gob Super Squad Night Shot is a UK and German artist January 22 @ 7:30 pm collective that collaborates Royal Canadian Legion #1 with other artists to make art $38 • 60 minutes that exposes the heart of urban life. They create performances and videos that search for An adventure through the nighttime streets of beauty in the everyday, and Calgary.