Can you display to the world the blood and sinew and capillaries through the glass cabinet doors in your chest?  What will happen if you show people what is inside the sausage casing? Why are we obsessed with beauty?  Is it possible to truly reveal yourself and somehow survive the scrutiny?  How do you write a love song that is not sentimental?  These are some of the questions raised by Music for Contortionist, the latest offering from Sage Theatre, and they are questions that only serve to propagate yet more questions rather than allow themselves to be easily answered.  read more »

I love everything about going to the Pumphouse Theatre.  I love the setting, a former pumphouse nestled amongst the trees along the Bow River, which admittedly, if you are first approaching it in the dark, is a trifle disconcerting, lying as it does on the edge of an industrial area that feels distinctly abandoned and sinister on a winter night.  But the parking is easy and ample and right on the doorsteps of the Pumphouse Theatre itself.   read more »