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Odyssey

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In their final journey with Greystone Theatre, it is fitting that fourth-year University of Saskatchewan drama students are taking on the epic journey of Homer's The Odyssey by American playwright Mary Zimerman. Photograph by: Gord Waldner, The StarPhoenix :: note :: ... the Cyclops & Athena were Romeo & Juliet this past summer ... not all of them are 4th year ... student newspaper The Sheaf article (Pdf) ...

to the limit Skit Skit

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Skit Skit is not a band nor a brand. Not a post-modern apocalyptic traveling troupe though rumors prevail this may be the next logical step . Not a TV show nor Youtube sensation but see them on Skitskittv or YouTube-SkitSkitTV . Not a counterculture network nor a legit theatre company - " It doesn't pay ". Nor a wild animal collective/ kingdom . Just a few friends having fun ... like Facebook friends or @Skit_Skit handles to follow. They do alternative video-and-theatre sketch comedy and are in their "third season of political satire, farce, fantasy and just plain ridiculousness." Their latest self proclaimed animal themed show revolves around personal interests of death, violence, tragedy, slang terms for the human anatomy & most significantly ad busting in the vien of Adbusters . There is a dolphin-like satire of teenage angst, a rooster Agamemnon poke at greek tragedy, a tribute to Groove the cat & a foxy monologue ... yes and a pirate pole dance-

scene - seen

the scene - seen in site - sight we see what we know and what we are conditioned to see the scene - seen something we didn't know something we can't quite see the scene is not action anymore a meta-action a gesture that creates the possibility to instanciate further spaces further forms for expression processes, emotions, attention, perception and cognition your cultural awareness, your emotions, your feelings grow relationally in context building on differences, interactions and interrelations in experiment start to understand how things play in emergent, ephemeral imagination acting and rendering are not equivalent more than an assertion, a suspension :: note :: ... apologies to the -empyre- list which is always a gold mine of thought ... access the archives ...