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Cut to 2021. During the pandemic, free time has been a constant, rather than a luxury, according to Cree/Métis singer, dancer, actor and musician Krystle Pederson. “Usually artists get so busy that sometimes we don’t have time to do the things we want to work on,” Pederson, 38, said recently from her home in Saskatoon. “I was super-appreciative last year to have some time to write music and focus on that and have a bit of a break. But by the end of the year, I was just dying to be in a show or some kind of rehearsal or something. It has been off and on. I’m really grateful for the time off, but I’m also really missing being in a rehearsal room and being with people and being with an audience.”
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Playwright Tomson Highway focuses on the lighter side of death in his musical one-woman show about a supernatural postmistress By: Randall King | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Monday, Apr. 5, 2021
‘I’m probably the silliest man you’ve ever met in your life,” says Tomson Highway, kicking off a phone interview from his home in Gatineau, Que.
‘I’m probably the silliest man you’ve ever met in your life, says Tomson Highway, kicking off a phone interview from his home in Gatineau, Que.
The subject comes up immediately because the 69-year-old Cree playwright from Brochet about 350 kilometres north of Flin Flon wants it known he does like a good laugh. And these days, laughter is a valuable commodity.
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Nestruck on Theatre: Seven reasons for locked-down theatre fans to cheer up – 2 Pianos, 4 Hands and one new Hannah Moscovitch play Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account
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Twenty-five years ago this week,
2 Pianos, 4 Hands premiered at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto – and the play for two actor-pianists has hardly ever not been onstage somewhere since then.
Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt’s co-written coming-of-age comedy about two boys passionately pursuing and eventually painfully letting go of their dreams of being concert pianists has been seen by close to two million people over its roughly 4,000 performances to this point, according to its producers.
Top Stories of 2020: Documentary play Reasonable Doubt takes a deep look at Indigenous relations in Sask. The documentary play examines race relations in Saskatchewan through the lens of Colten Boushie s death and the Gerald Stanley trial.
Author of the article: Matt Olson
Publishing date: Dec 18, 2020 • December 18, 2020 • 4 minute read • Actors Kris Alvarez, left to right, Nathan Howe, Colin Wolf, Krystle Pederson, Lancelot Knight, and Tara Sky during a rehearsal of the Persephone Theatre s production of Reasonable Doubt on the main stage in Saskatoon, SK on Thursday, January 23, 2020. Photo by Liam Richards /Saskatoon StarPhoenix
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