I searched and searched for pictures…and I finally found pictures.
Justin Michael Carriere as Hector and Shawna Burnett as Kira in "The Invention of Music", a new comedy by Clem Martini on the TransCanada Stage at Lunchbox Theatre, March 30 – April 25, 2009. Photograph by Benjamin Laird Arts and Photo.
So…it appears that the Lunchbox Theater in Calgary, Alberta, CA specializes exclusively in one act plays. This, according to their web sheet:
A one-act play is a short play that takes place in one act consisting of one or more scenes. The “one-act” is often referred to as the “short story” of plays because the story is told in a concise and creatively efficient manner. One-act plays, as with full length plays, come in all genres: comedies, dramas and musicals. At Lunchbox Theatre we program mainly comedies and musicals as we provide a noon-time oasis for our busy audience members.
First of all, let’s deconstruct Lunchbox Theater’s definition of one act play:
A one-act play is a short play that takes place in one act…
Seriously, God bless community theater. Especially when it’s community lunch hour theater. And especially when their current play is about whales! “The Invention Of Music” runs thru 4/25.
First of all, the play is written by a dude named Clem Martini. It’s impossible to determine which name is better, his first or his last. And despite being a novelist, playwright, and university prof, Clem Martini does not appear to have his own wikipedia entry.
Clem Martini, struggling to support the weight of the genius that's trapped in his head.
“The Invention of Music” is supposedly a comedy about whales in rehab. There’s Frank, the finback, with a radio-receiver harpoon in his head.
Son, you've got a harpoon in your head. (Photograph by Benjamin Laird Arts and Photo)
There’s Bill The Blue Whale, self-conscious about his weight.
He's fat, but he's also big boned (Photograph by Benjamin Laird Arts and Photo)
There’s Hector, the happy humpback.
I've mostly only known Mexican guys named Hector (Photograph by Benjamin Laird Arts and Photo)
And there’s Kira, a female Orca, played by Shawna Burnett…whose range is demonstrated in these stills.
Kira is in love with Hector.
Louis B. Hobson, from SunMedia.ca, gives the 2.5 out of five stars. He calls the costume design “bargain basement,” but refrains from using the phrase “whale of a tale” (in the review, but not in the PREview).
Bob Clark, of the Calgary Herald, gives it a 4 out of five, and calls it “imaginative, funny, and wise.” He makes reference to there being some whales “of a tale.”
So the reviews round out to a 3.25 out of 5. I’m going to check the last minute deals at Travelocity.com now.
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