A Burnaby performer is featured in an upcoming performance of Beggar's Opera.
Seven Tyrants Theatre is remounting the musical at the Jericho Arts Centre in Vancouver from March 4 to 14 - and Burnaby's own Julia Fox is in the cast as Bonnie Twitcher.
It's Fox's first outing with Seven Tyrants Theatre, but she has been singing with opera companies for eight years and with choirs "ever since she can remember," a bio says.
She started with the Young People's Opera Society of B.C., where she performed the title roles in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel and Pandora's Box. She has also appeared in the Burnaby Lyric Opera productions of Martha and Pagliacci.
Fox is also an actor, appearing in film and commercials as well as live theatre - she's had lead roles in Metro Theatre's Murder on the Nile and North Shore Theatre for Children's Sleeping Beauty.
Beggar's Opera a remount of the production that Seven Tyrants Theatre premiered last April at Performance Works.
A press release notes that David Newham has adapted John Gay's classic script, with the action packed into 10 "fantasias" - each one described as a live "theatrical music video." An original score by Daniel Deorksen draws on a range of styles "from the sublime tones of classic jazz to a world of Tom Waits meets Frank Zappa and the Muppets."
The music is performed live by Deorksen and violinist Phyllis Ho, along with the 15-performer cast on a range of classical and modern instruments.
Tickets for the Tuesday performances are $20, with Wednesday through Sunday seats at $29. The Sunday, March 9 performance is two-for-one at the door, based on availability. Students can save $5 at the door with valid ID.
Advance tickets are available at www.ticketstonight.ca or by calling 1-877-840-0457.
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The Burnaby Public Library's McGill branch is hosting an evening with acclaimed author Cynthia Flood next week.
The library is hosting the visit on Thursday, Feb. 27 from 7 to 8 p.m.
Flood's latest book, Red Girl Rat Boy, is her fourth short-story collection. Quill & Quire's reviews editor picked it as one of five Books of the Year, and the National Post described Flood as a "highly accomplished stylist."
Flood's earlier collections are the English Stories, My Father Took a Cake to France, and The Animals in their Elements.
Her work has won the Journey Prize and a National Magazine Award, among others, and has been chosen four times for the annual anthology Best Canadian Stories.
Her books will be available for purchase at the event (cash only).
It's free, but space is limited - register online at www.bpl.bc.ca/events/mcgill/ , call 604-299-8955, or drop in to the library at 4595 Albert St. in North Burnaby to sign up.
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Art lovers still have time to check out the exhibition of First Nations and Inuit prints at the Burnaby Art Gallery.
The exhibition, Recent Acquisitions of First Nations and Inuit Prints, is running at the gallery until April 6.
The gallery recently received the promised gift of a significant collection of First Nations and Inuit prints, created during the 1970s and early 1980s. Two notable Inuit works were also added to the gallery's collection in 2013.
The new exhibition features master works by Kenojuak Ashevak, Joseph and Kananginak Pootoogook, Bill Reid, Roy Henry Vickers and more.
Running in conjunction with the exhibition, the gallery is also offering a Fireside Talk with Krista Belle Stewart on Thursday, March 20 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
It's also hosting a Mandarin language walking tour with Dong Yue Su on Saturday, March 22 from noon to 1 p.m.
Burnaby Art Gallery is at 6344 Deer Lake Ave. It's open Tuesdays to Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m.
Admission is by donation (suggested donation $5). Call 604-297-4422 or see www.burnabyartgallery.ca for more details.
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