Vue Weekly – Resurrecting the Strand

by: Fawnda Mithrush  VUE weekly Francois Chevennement admits he was stunned to find out that most lifelong Edmontonians have no idea where the famed Strand Theatre once stood. “Everyone knows about it in the States, but no one in Edmonton here knows that we had the Strand,” he says, noting that some of the world’s greatest vaudeville artists once performed right there, on Jasper Avenue:...

Murder at the Strand

Inspired by an unsolved case in 1920s Edmonton, Murder at the Strand is an elegant, compelling story ballet set in the energetic era of vaudeville. Meet the suspects, study their motives and solve the crime! Two performances only!  June 4 at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The June 4th evening performance includes a reception complete with light fare and silent auction. Choreography: Francois Chevennement and Laurence...

King’s Shorts Festival

Food is Love will be produced at King’s Shorts Festival in Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, in June 2011. Now in its fifth year, King’s Shorts Festival brings eight new plays to the stage.  Food is Love is directed by Lynda Hanshaw.  

The Seed Savers at Station Arts Centre

The Seed Savers will be presented at the Station Arts Centre in Rosthern, SK, from July 1 to August 1, 2010, directed by Michael Clark, stage managed by Diana Domm, set by Hans Becker, sound design by Paul Morgan Donald, lighting by Tim Cardinal and costumes by Theresa Germaine. How are rural folk—coming out of traditions that go back generations—coping with the changes of the twenty-first century? What happened to...

Station Arts Center Playwright’s Note

The Seed Savers “Whoever said that farming is the foundation of all the arts is quite correct. When all is well on the farms, all is well elsewhere.” –Xenophon in Oeconomicus, c. 370 B.C.E.   My characters, Mindy and Joe, Sky and Solo, and Tyler–family, friends and neighbors– are challenged by each other, by the wind and by new technologies. How will our inventions, ubiquitous as the wind, and powered...

Globe and Mail Article

THE GLOBE AND MAIL Katherine Koller’s farm visit yields a dramatic harvest A glimpse of fields sprayed silver with chemicals sparked a new play about a farm couple Marsha Lederman Published on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009 In a pun that simply can’t be avoided, the seed for Katherine Koller’s new play was planted during a trip to a cousin’s Alberta farm, more than 10 years ago. He drove her around on two...

The Seed Savers at Workshop West Theatre

The Seed Savers opens 31st Season! Mindy and Joe have spent fifty years on their farm, their family and each other, but when genetically-modified canola gets into their prized crop, much more is at risk than the ancient right of farmers to sow their own seed. Faced with losing their farm, they find themselves at odds with each other, with past choices and even their way forward. A love story about farming,...

Workshop West Theatre Playwright’s Note

The Seed Savers “Whoever said that farming is the foundation of all the arts is quite correct. When all is well on the farms, all is well elsewhere.” –Xenophon in Oeconomicus, c. 370 B.C.E.   Ten years ago, I revisited my cousin’s farm in southern Alberta, Milk River country.  My cousin took me on two tours, one to see his grain and oilseed fields and another to see virgin grassland, never tilled, where his cattle...