Intrepid Theatre has come up with a new way to experience the Victoria Fringe Festival in 2021. For a performing arts mainstay counted on to draw 20,000 attendees and about 250 performances from 300 artists each year, that makes for a sizable reinvention.
For the upcoming 24th edition, there was never going to be an in-person component, which gave organizers time to branch out with new ideas for their popular festival of solo performance. “We didn’t want to plan and then have to rewind, and then plan and rewind,” said co-artistic and marketing director Sean Guist of Intrepid Theatre. “That is why it stretches over a month. I just don’t think people have the capacity to see a festival of multiple shows over 10 days. We wanted to give people more opportunities to watch things.” UNO Fest Online will offer artist talks, livestreams and a pair of online shows over its three-week run. The first performance, a pre-recorded three-camera performance of Anthony Hudson’s Looking for Tiger Lily, opens Tuesday and is available on-demand until May 9. Gemini, a COVID-19 response by University of Victoria grad and former City of Victoria Indigenous artist-in-residence Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde, will be released May 18 and is
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Ride the Cyclone (World Premiere Cast Recording) 2021
Part comedy, part tragedy, and wholly unexpected, this wildly imaginative story delivers surprises at every turn. The lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. A mechanical fortune-teller invites each to tell their story of a life interrupted, offering the chance to come to terms with their fates. At once quirky and smart, edgy and beautiful, Ride the Cyclone ultimately reveals the resilience of the human spirit in spite of senseless tragedy.
Out of This Blue brings together new music from MacDougall and new stories and spoken word from Coyote in an original production that will have its world première online Tuesday through Intrepid Theatre. Sean Guist of Intrepid Theatre, which is presenting Out of This Blue through April 11 at intrepidtheatre.com, said when the lockdown began last year, Coyote started responding to correspondence they had received over the previous 11 years. “Unanswered emails, letters, notes tucked under their windshield after gigs. That’s where the show kind of started.” MacDougall and Coyote combined their unique talents for the production, with Coyote’s stories and ruminations accompanying new pandemic-themed music from MacDougall. The mash-up of storytelling and music was recorded on three cameras at their home studio in London, Ontario, where Coyote serves as the Alice Munro Chair in Creativity at Western University.
Eboni Muse doesn’t just love to perform for an audience, it’s written in her DNA.
The local musical theater actor is the granddaughter of the late Margaret “Margie Ruth” Springer, a longtime singer at Pilgrim Progressive Baptist Church, who was known in her day as “the queen of gospel in San Diego.”
Over the past decade, Muse has performed regularly in professional musicals and plays at San Diego Repertory Theatre, New Village Arts, Lamb’s Players Theatre, Intrepid Theatre and Common Ground Theatre, among others.
So when all the theater work dried up in March, the 33-year-old La Mesa resident said she fell into a funk.