7:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Location
Mountain View Studio
7 pm – 8 pm
Meditative Ragas by
Multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Kay
8pm – 9 pm
My Autopsy
a one-man show by Hamish Boyd
From a precocious childhood dominated by the gothic imagery of a Dracula confused with Jesus, to a young adulthood variously defined by hippiedom and LSD, a summer spent cutting corpses in a hospital, and the quest for enlightenment, to the epiphany of later years that comes with seeing a kind of providence in the accumulated experience of a lifetime; Boyd, who is directed in his darkly comic and altogether absorbing autobiographical dissection by longtime collaborator Fif Fernandes.
“A master storyteller. My Autopsy is a magical show.”
Bob Clark, Calgary Herald
“My Autopsy, a dark comedy, represents a richly textured narrative line that gathers momentum across a 50-year span. It chronicles Boyd’s spiritual life story, an often amusing coming of age journey, from choirboy in church, to hippiedom of the 60s, to his quest for a mystical wisdom. A rich tapestry of experience delivered with wry wit.” Sharon Pollock, CBC Radio
“…writing so colourful and a performance so multilayered that this show is not just entertaining, but engrossing and enlightening.” Louis B. Hobson, Sun Media