{"id":3256136,"date":"2019-07-23T16:01:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T19:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?p=3256136"},"modified":"2019-07-23T16:01:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T19:01:55","slug":"the-lunchbox-interview-robb-kempson-alex-rioux-mckenna-james-notable-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/the-lunchbox-interview-robb-kempson-alex-rioux-mckenna-james-notable-acts","title":{"rendered":"The Lunchbox Interview: Robb Kempson, Alex Rioux, McKenna James (Notable Acts)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Theatre creates a make-believe space in which we can display the real world, and can compress all of time down to a single instance.<\/em><\/p>\n

My guests today are all involved in this year’s Notable Acts Theatre Festival<\/strong><\/a>. Robb Kempson<\/strong> is the artist-in-residence dramaturge for this year’s festival, and has worked with all the plays and playwrights to polish and shape their works. Alex Rioux<\/strong> is the co-creator of Fruit Machine<\/em>, a physical play presenting the questionable practices of the RCMP that targeted the LGBT+ community in the 50s and 60s, and is also acting in the play Gullywump<\/em> by Greg Everett. McKenna James<\/strong> is a young playwright, currently enrolled in the drama program at UNB, and has a 10-minute play in this year’s festival called The Year Where No One Dies<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Notable Acts Theatre Festival<\/strong><\/a> begins on July 23 with the preview pay-what-you-will performance of\u00a0Fruit Machine\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>at the Black Box Theatre at St Thomas University at 7:30pm. Prior to the performance at 6:30pm and in the same space, there will be a panel discussion entitled\u00a0\u2018Bringing Queer History to Light\u2019. The festival continues until August 3. See the full schedule on their website.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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My guests are Robb Kempson (dramaturge-in-residence), Alex Rioux (“Fruit Machine” co-creator, actor) and McKenna James (playwright) from this year’s Notable Acts Theatre Festival.<\/p>\n

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