THE COMMON GROUND FESTIVAL RETURNS WITH
OUR TENTH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!
The Common Ground Festival returns for its tenth birthday this
winter to celebrate and showcase the work of Calgary’s finest emerging
and small professional artists from November 20th to the 23rd at the
Victor Mitchell Theatre. One ticket grants access to an evening of
entertainment.
Tickets on sale now!
Click here for tickets to Wednesday November 20th.
Click here for all performances, go to the day you want to attend for specific performances, call 403-246-2999, or take your chances and buy your tickets at the door!
The Knight has been summoned to the king’s court, eager to receive accolades and probably an award for his many fantastic achievements. Throughout his time in the court, his bravado begins to slip, and a devastating and emasculating secret is exposed. Inspired by medieval poems like The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and performed in drag, COCKSURE uses comedy to explore queerness and masculinity.
The work is inspired by Lorna Byrne’s writings around Mother Earth and the mythical idea of a protective angel figure who works to calm mother earth when she is damaged. She describes it like this: “Mother Earth is that life force inside our planet, that beautiful angel. Angel Jimazen tries to stop her from twisting and turning too much but she has to do this to heal our earth. He has to calm Mother Earth. She has many arms, and they flow out from her like sails. She moves ever so gently, stretching out those sail-like arms to every part of our planet that needs healing. She is like a mother feeding her young, doing her best to take care of our planet and all the life upon it and within it.
Angel Jimazen has an incredible relationship with Mother Earth. He fights with her to stop her convulsing too much but knows that she has to do it to heal our planet. He uses his staff to tap the earth to quell her out of love for Mother Earth
In a time where treasured memories of loved ones can be immortalized and lived over and over in state-of-the-art vaults, a couple in the midst of a difficult divorce confronts their past, their present, and their future (in all its unexpected shapes and sizes) as they decide what to do with their late son’s memory.