Chairs on Tour – Day 1

Today we hit the road!  We’re off on a two  tour.  First stop, Victoria, then Nanaimo, then Tofino and we finish off with Nelson.  On the road, in our big shit kickin’ truck, we have Shawn Sorensen, who’s stage managing, me, Chelsea Haberlin, and the three actors, Sebastien Archibald, Cam Anderson and Chris Wilson.  This is a photo of us at our hotel – the Admiral Inn right on the inner harbour (it’s beautiful!).

 

Cam, Seb, Chelsea and Shawn (We're missing Chris but he'll be back!)

 

 

My goal is to write at least one blog post from each of our locations and I’m hoping my travel partners will join in as well.

So far we’re off to pretty good start.  A bit of a paint scrape fiasco turning a sharp corner in the truck (shhh!) and a few wrong turns but now we have beer and pizza and Catan and life is kick ass again.

Tomorrow we unload and tech at The Metro  in preparation for our opening on Wednesday.  I hope all Victorians reading this will be there!  Now off to the Catan board for an epic battle…

A Twinterview

This afternoon we are going to go LIVE with a twitter interview about our new show, Chairs: A Parable.

A twinterview? What’s that you ask? Twitter + interview = twinterview! Join us on twitter as Amanda Farrell-Low, arts editor for @MondayMag interviews us (@thezoocrew) about our newest play, the absurdist comedy, Chairs: A Parable, that will be going on tour later this month. The tour dates include Vancouver at CBC Studio 700 on March 22, Victoria (at the Metro presented by Intrepid Theatre) March 30-April 2, Nanaimo April 4, Tofino April 6 and Nelson April 9 am 10.

You can follow this virtual interview live on Friday March 18 from 12.30pm – 1pm with the hashtag #ItsazooQs. Join in the fun by tweeting your questions for us to @IntrepidTheatre – Amanda will try to ask as many of your questions as possible and the best ones will win a double pass to see Chairs!

Everyone can take part, even if you aren’t on twitter you can take a peek at the action here (http://twitter.com/#!/MondayMag) and feel free to head on over to Monday Mag’s facebook page and post a question if you like: http://www.facebook.com/MondayMagazine

We’ll post the whole interview to Intrepid Theatre’s website afterwards so you can read it and be sure to grab a copy of Monday Mag on Wednesday March 30 to see Amanda’s article integrating questions from the interview.

We hope to hear from all of you!

Happy Birthday ITSAZOO!

Today ITSAZOO turns 5.  Wow, they do grow up quickly!  That means that 5 years ago today ITSAZOO was officially incorporated as a non-profit society.  We’re going to be celebrating with a little fete especially for this very special company but I thought it would be nice to celebrate blog-style with a bit of a walk down memory lane.  Here are some photos from the last five years that bring a smile to my face and remind me of all the amazing adventures we’ve had in the zoo.

The curtain call from A Midsummer Night's Dream - our very first outdoor promenade production

 

Colby Wilson and Jason Moldowan as Dee and Dum in our promenade production of Alice in Wonderland.

Hansel and Gretel from Grimm Tales

Sebastien Archibald in Casualties of Progress - our first show after arriving in Vancouver in 2008

On tour in Tofino with Death of a Clown in 2009

at a Robin Hood rehearsal in Queen Elizabeth Park - summer 2010

It has been an amazing 5 years and we can’t wait to see what happens in the next 5!