Lizzie’s Cabaret Noir celebrated it’s one year in style – a packed house was treated to massive talent & wild raffle prizes. Doing the front-of-house I was glad to see many generous people dropping more than a fiver in the pwyc.
The show kicked off with a slate of dynamic usual faces starting with Nelson Sobral (soon to replace all of the Rolling Stones), Brenda Clews with a saucy piece, Cate & Dee with a great a cappella duet, Jeff Cottrill telling us why Halle Berry is better than you, me (because I did the first open stage a year ago). closing with Matt Gerber: aka Mr. Furious.
Feature Philip Cairns with Peter Lynch performed a short new play, What Ida Said, written by Philip with David Bateman A sharp comic piece that played with the slippery gender roles, aging, insest & conformity. ‘I don’t remember about sex? What is it?’ Peter was the perfect foil with his dry offhand delivery against Philip’s more emotionally sloppy character. After the short play Philip did a great job on Dory Previn’s Mr. Whisper, then Peter did a monologue as, I think, Tony of the Soprano’s mother. www.philipcairns.com
After the break more things where raffled off – I restrained myself from buying tickets as I have enough ‘things’ already :-). Next feature was the sensational The Rando Bando. I manned the iPod for their music & managed to get my cues right. The songs were sharp, sexy, bawdy, funny lyrics to well known (at least to me) melodies. You Don’t Know Me – became the stalkers lament: ‘You don’t see me – I’m watching from the heating duct’ The set had great flow that took us from from saucy to flat out vulgar. Loved it. www.floatingdeskinternational.com
By the time they were done it was 10 pm, and time for me to head home (I like to be abed by 11 most nights) so I missed Arlene Paculan’s set – maybe another time Arlene. A great show & a great night. www.arlenepaculan.com
great Noir photo set: https://www.facebook.com/anna.l.romeo.9/media_set?set=a.10151999723547129.1073741909.523022128&type=1
June 23-27 – attending – Manuscript to Book – Loyalist Summer Arts – Belleville, Ont https://www.facebook.com/events/589522924455695/
writing blocks broken at Loyalist
August 28-31 – attending – FanExpo Canada http://www.fanexpocanada.com
Laid Plans
so things didn’t go as planned
no one took into account
the end of the world
getting in the way of important things
why did it have to come to an end
before our plans could come to fruition
all those hopes and dreams
dashed turned into a dusty waste of time
time that could have been spent relaxing
enjoying the flow of things
we squandered those precious moments
on worries constructing news ways
of controlling to suit our wants
now all for nothing
the world has come to an end
almost laughing in our faces
as the tremor shook us up from its core
rending the sky
while we were busy getting our way
making things safe secure perfect
if only we had at least time to get naked
enjoy one last fuck one last embrace
but the end came sudden fast relentless remorseless
crushing without pleasure
leaving this desolation in its wake
where there was once a planet there is debris
debris without even a residue
of karmic happiness left in the air
because we were so busy
we didn’t have time to leave a warm glow behind
didn’t even have sense enough to enjoy
the end of the world