SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA – One Night Only – July 14, 8pm
Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia performed by Shawn Watson @ King's Theatre (Annapolis Royal) July 14, 2009, Ticket Info: 902.532.7704
Spalding Gray’s
SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA
A solo performance by Shawn Watson
Directed by Graham MacDonald
ONE NIGHT ONLY – July 14, 8pm
Tickets: $10, Students/Seniors: $8
King’s Theatre, Annapolis Royal, 902.532.7704
*Mature content, not for children
Winner Critics Choice Spotlight Award for Best Fringe Production 2008 (Victoria)
Best Male Performer Nomination – Victoria Fringe Festival 2008
“***** – A powerful piece of theatre, Watson does it proud. (…) captivating, maniacal and high-energy (…) an enviable meeting of script and talent.” – Monday Magazine“
“**** – Watson has a hypnotizing enthusiasm (…) an eye-opening and yet hilarious tribute piece.” – Times Colonist
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Since his early performances with the Kings Theatre Young Company, Shawn Watson has gone on to obtain a BFA in Acting and Dramatic Literature, then on to the west coast where his performances have garnered acclaim for their hypnotic energy and drive.
Currently based in Vancouver, while home for his brother’s wedding Shawn is offering a one-night-only performance of Spalding Gray’s “Swimming to Cambodia”, a one-man play recounting the legendary actor/monologist’s experiences making the 1987 film “The Killing Fields”, traveling southeast Asia, observing first hand the consequences of Cold War politics, the 1975 Cambodian genocide, sex, drugs, relationships and the pursuit of happiness.
This is a charged piece of theatre full of intelligence and humour, prickling with chilling revelations and dizzying parallels to the headlines of today. Watson’s performance draws the audience into a high-speed adventure through the anatomy of Gray’s imagination, without ever leaving his chair.
Shawn Watson grew up in Bridgetown, where he began performing in the 6th Grade. Swimming to Cambodia will be his first appearance at Kings Theatre since directing “Grease” in 2003. A veteran of the King’s Theatre Young Company, he performed in as many as three productions a year from 1999 to 2004, including “The Wiz”, “Hamlet”, “Annie”, and “Reserve Two for Murder”. Since then he has written for stage, directed his own work, performed in the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, and with the Victoria Shakespeare Society as Benvolio in “Romeo and Juliet”. Watson first worked with Graham MacDonald (Theatre Inconnu) in the fall of 2007. Their May 2008 production of “Swimming to Cambodia” at Victoria’s Uno Festival represented the first professional production of the show since Gray’s suicide in 2004.
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