Win tickets to Itsazoo’s Robin Hood at the Queen Elizabeth Park
The summer always brings amazing theatre to Vancouver, and very inspired and versatile, multi-talented approaches to delivering these performances. Last year, I attended Road to Canterbury, put together by the same folks who bring to you this time Robin Hood, with a Vancouver-flavor and twist. I’m always looking forward to the work of Itsazoo, because they’re witty and inventive. Of course, I’m pretty sure everyone will ask me why I chose a photo of Green Arrow, the superhero and talented archer instead of finding a Robin Hood photo. Well, Green Arrow is inspired by the tale of Robin Hood himself.
Robin Hood is a social/political satire inspired and influenced by everything from Bread and Puppet Theatre and Bertolt Brecht to South Park and The Colbert Report. The story follows a group of social activists who live and work amongst the transients of a tent city located in an urban park. The need for social programs is at an all-time high, however the government has allocated all its resources to a commerce-driven sporting event. So the activists take matters into their own hands. The audience literally follows the merry men as they ‘Steal from the Rich to give to the Poor’.
Robin Hood opens Thursday, August 5 at 7:00 pm, and runs nightly through until the 7th. It then runs August 10-14 and 17-19. All performances take place in Queen Elizabeth Park. Meet at the Bloedel Conservatory. Tickets are $ 17/13, plus HST, and can be purchased in person from the Bloedel Conservatory. I will be at opening night, so you can say hi there.
The kind folks of Itsazoo have given me a pair of tickets to give away. To enter this giveaway, tell me an anecdote – have you ever engaged in activism about housing/homelessness? What has your experience been? I will draw a random winner from the list of comments in this post, on Monday August 2nd at 2:00pm. If you are on Twitter, it would help me if you listed your Twitter user ID in your comment (and perhaps make it easier for me to reach you).
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- Riverdance at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver (review)
- Robin Hood at Queen Elizabeth Park by @thezoocrew
WANT!
love theatre and robin hood is a great topic; i’m not sure how the homelessness/housing activism is connected but we have two roommates/tenants who were lost in the housing roulette as they are in specialty groups (mentally disabled & Aboriginal) who get special places to live but those places are not so nice, we even housed a street person for a few months on our property while they were waiting for a bed in a treatment centre; we are currently fixing up a house which will house 3-4 downtown East Side people who need to get away from that scene
after all this work my hubby and I could use a night out at the theatre
thank you,
@amfriesen
I Love theatre and this definitely is an awesome one.
During university, to raise money for the food shelter myself and another lived on campus for a week as a homeless person with only $1 to spend each day for food, camping out in our sleeping bags and still attending lectures during the day. We called it “homeless for the homeless.” It was really targeted only to people in our faculty but i’m sure if we opened it we would’ve raised more money.
Thanks!
No, I’ve never been involved in activism about homelessness.
Twitter: reese210
I’ve never been involved in housing activism either. I live in a low income myself and my heart sure is out there for the lack of housing. I have a permanent physical disability and think I am soooooo lucky to live in the place I am, even though I may gripe about some maintenance/structural things now and then. It’s accessible and and affordable I CAN’T IMAGINE if I was given short notice to leave.
15 years ago this nearly homeless kid dropped into my writing class and blew us all away with her talent. I befriended her and tried to help her over many years. Not so easy to help the addicted, victims of abuse and those who have missed whole stages of their childhood development. She is HIV and Hep C positive. She finally got into the Dr. Peter Centre day program but was/is going downhill and has always been very much in denial about the extent of her own addiction and hygiene. She lives on the streets most of the time still, and one time I went to the building on Abbott that she has a permanent address, only to have a place to send the Welfare cheques (landlords collect from them), and was shocked at the state of the place. I am so against slum lords, but I also know the challenges of working with those that are low-functioning, addicted, ravaged by disease and FAS FAE effected, and can no longer care for themselves, they are not ideal tenants. There was some hope at the start but this is one of those tragic cases. That is why I always give to the youth programs, if you can turn the young around then, they may have a chance. I have somewhere a poem she wrote about being homeless at Christmas that will break your heart if I duplicated it here. Let me know where would be an appropriate place to post it. I have great compassion for this problem but think that my views on it are both realistic and perhaps too radical even for the radical.