Pumphouse Theatre's Common Ground Festival 2024 Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 7:30 PM MST
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Pumphouse Theatre presents
Common Ground Festival 2024
November 20 - 23, 2024
Happy birthday to the Common Ground Festival!
The big 1-0! Ten years since the first Common Ground Festival and we are still standing, still providing a stage to those beautiful artists and their amazing work! From November 20th to 23rd, come and celebrate with us and be entertained by six new works by Calgary’s coolest new artists!
Tickets are $25 General Admission. One ticket gets you into the whole evening.
Each night is fixing on having about two hours of entertainment. Every evening will have three shows
Website: https://www.pumphousetheatre.ca/
Thursday November 21st: Enrichment Hour, You Work Where?, Jimazen
Friday November 22nd: Echo, Heartstrings, You Work Where?
Saturday November 23rd: Heartstrings, Cocksure, Enrichment Hour
Enrichment Hour by The Three Cheese Institute (~55mins)
In partnership with The Calgary Zoo, we are bringing the animals to the stage for a unique province-mandated enrichment experience! This will be an open mic featuring a variety of truly raw and vulnerable performances: poetry, stand-up, song… with a few feral twists and turns along the way.
You Work Where? Three Plays of Odd Occupations by Logan Sundquist (~55mins)
You Work Where? Follows 3 surreal stories of odd jobs, and those who are curiously employed. A Bed Bath & Beyond that isn’t quite what it seems, a plot to turn Antarctica into the world's largest golf course, and a door-to-door salesperson selling rain to an increasingly odd cast of characters.
Echo by Madeline Hunter Smith and Sucker For Punishment Entertainment (~60mins)
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.
Cocksure by Cosmo Christoffersen (~20mins)
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.
Jimazen by Katharina Schier (~20mins)
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
Heartstrings: An Improvised Queer Femme Love Story by Two Girls Improv (~30mins)
Heartstrings is an improvised coming of age story, where two actors play all the characters and weave a narrative that will be sure to pull on your heartstrings
Common Ground Festival 2024
November 20 - 23, 2024
Happy birthday to the Common Ground Festival!
The big 1-0! Ten years since the first Common Ground Festival and we are still standing, still providing a stage to those beautiful artists and their amazing work! From November 20th to 23rd, come and celebrate with us and be entertained by six new works by Calgary’s coolest new artists!
Tickets are $25 General Admission. One ticket gets you into the whole evening.
Each night is fixing on having about two hours of entertainment. Every evening will have three shows
Website: https://www.pumphousetheatre.ca/
Performance Schedule
Wednesday November 20th: Jimazen, Echo, CocksureThursday November 21st: Enrichment Hour, You Work Where?, Jimazen
Friday November 22nd: Echo, Heartstrings, You Work Where?
Saturday November 23rd: Heartstrings, Cocksure, Enrichment Hour
SHOW DESCRIPTIONS
(In no particular order)Enrichment Hour by The Three Cheese Institute (~55mins)
In partnership with The Calgary Zoo, we are bringing the animals to the stage for a unique province-mandated enrichment experience! This will be an open mic featuring a variety of truly raw and vulnerable performances: poetry, stand-up, song… with a few feral twists and turns along the way.
You Work Where? Three Plays of Odd Occupations by Logan Sundquist (~55mins)
You Work Where? Follows 3 surreal stories of odd jobs, and those who are curiously employed. A Bed Bath & Beyond that isn’t quite what it seems, a plot to turn Antarctica into the world's largest golf course, and a door-to-door salesperson selling rain to an increasingly odd cast of characters.
Echo by Madeline Hunter Smith and Sucker For Punishment Entertainment (~60mins)
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.
Cocksure by Cosmo Christoffersen (~20mins)
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.
Jimazen by Katharina Schier (~20mins)
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
Heartstrings: An Improvised Queer Femme Love Story by Two Girls Improv (~30mins)
Heartstrings is an improvised coming of age story, where two actors play all the characters and weave a narrative that will be sure to pull on your heartstrings
Venue
Pumphouse Theatre
Victor Mitchell Theatre
2140 Pumphouse Avenue SW
Calgary AB T3C 3P5