Calgary, I Love You But You're Killing Me

Calgary, I Love You, but You’re Killing Me

The City is a nest and a distraction. Safe and dangerous, comforting and alien, it exhausts and energizes in equal measure. Does a city that spends much of its energy visualizing what is occurring below the surface of the earth have a quality notion of what’s going on above it?

Who are we as a city? If an animal, what kind? If a gender, what variety? Are we a griffin or a gopher? A sphinx or a spaniel?

A warrior-queen or a tipsy teen? Does the city have a soul and if so how do we describe it? Just who the hell are we now?

From the songbook of David Rhymer and Blake Brooker C.M.

With additional music, lyrics, and text by: Denise Clarke C.M., Andy Curtis, Kris Demeanor, Karen Hines, Michelle Kennedy, Jonathan Lewis, Jamie Tognazzini and Dewi Wood.

Directed by Blake Brooker C.M.

Composed by David Rhymer

Staged by Denise Clarke C.M.

Performed by Denise Clarke C.M., Andy Curtis, Karen Hines and Jamie Tognazzini

Musicians: Kris Demeanor, Jonathan Lewis and David Rhymer

Stage Managed by Michelle Kennedy

Technical Director Nicole Olson Grant-Suttie

One Yellow Rabbit acknowledges the generous support of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.

The performance ran 120 minutes in duration with one intermission.