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Clan draw against Yellowjackets in overtime

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SFU faced adversity in the second half.

Playing the Montana State Billings Yellowjackets (MSUB), the Clan faced enough twists and turns to make your head spin. Excitement was certainly not an issue in this game — though blown leads were.

The game started off with a bang, as Clan midfielder Joseph Martin was taken down in the box within the first minute, leading to an SFU a penalty kick. Jovan Blagojevic did not miss the opportunity and delivered an early lead for SFU.

However, the lead was short lived, as the Billings returned the favour 12 minutes later, also off of a penalty kick.

SFU eventually seized a dominant lead, scoring two goals before the half was over, with Niko Schroettle and Ryan Dhillon adding to the total tally. Martin also notched an assist on the first goal. With a score of 3-1 in their favour, the game seemed to be in SFU’s hands.

The second half would prove to be less successful for the Clan.

Although it started off with a scoring opportunity for both teams, in the 60th minute, Martin was ejected for what appeared to be an obscene gesture towards the referee. This was a turning point in the match, and just like that, the Clan were down to 10 men.

To add injury to insult, starting goalie Brandon Watson was taken off the field with what looked like a pulled hamstring; Ivan Hutsulyak had to sub in to replace him.

In the 67th minute, MSUB’s Colin Ralston scored twice, tying SFU at three and eliminating the Clan’s hard earned lead.

Multiple scoring opportunities were exchanged before the half ended, the best chance for SFU being a saved header that tested the Montana goalie. The Yellowjackets scored just after time expired, and thought it should have counted. Luckily for the Clan, the referees did not agree, and the game headed into overtime.

Screen Shot 2014-11-26 at 4.50.58 PMThe overtime session was comprised of two 10-minute halves. Both teams waited until the last minute of the second half to make things interesting. Yellowjacket Strom Nuernberger was shown a red card and sent off. Off the ensuing free kick, defender Joel Malouf directed a header on goal that produced a rebound, but in the end was put wide. The game ended in SFU’s second straight draw.

Head coach Alan Koch acknowledged the impact that Martin’s red card had on the game, saying, “It warrant[ed] a red card and that was part of the reason we didn’t get the three points tonight.”

Despite this, he was impressed with how the team handled the adversity. “I’m incredibly proud of the players that were on the pitch after we got the red card. Even though you’re a man down, you’re playing against a good team and our guys worked their backsides off throughout the game.”

Sports Briefs

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Cross-Country

The Clan men’s and women’s cross-country teams both placed second at the 2014 Sundodger Invitational held in Seattle on September 20. Oliver Jorgenson and Rebecca Bassett led their respective teams finishing 24:39 and 21:36, each placing third. Both teams fell just short to the event champions, UBC.

Volleyball

The SFU volleyball team won against the Montana State Billings Yellowjackets (MSUB) on Thursday, September 25. Despite losing the first set, the Clan would end up winning in five sets in a back and forth affair. Kelsey Robinson and Mackenzie Dunham led the team in kills with 13 and 10 respectively. SFU now sits at .500 in the GNAC with a record of 2-2.

Hockey

The SFU men’s hockey team began their regular season Friday after splitting their exhibition games, winning against two Albertan teams, but losing to their local rivals, UBC and Trinity Western University. The team opens at home on Friday, October 10.

Men’s Basketball

The Clan men’s basketball team signed division I transfer Hidde Vos. Vos, who transferred from the University of Cal-State Fullerton, hails from the Netherlands. The 6’4 sophomore will play guard for the Clan. Head coach James Blake told SFU Athletics, “Hidde [Vos] is going to be one of the better shooters in the GNAC this season.”

Men’s Golf

SFU’s men’s golf team competed in back-to-back tournaments, placing second in both. The first, the Saint Martin’s Invitational, was held in Olympia, WA from September 19-20. Bret Thompson and Chris Crisologo led the team. The second was held last Monday and Tuesday at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. Chris Crisologo and Kevin Vigna led the team this time, placing the Clan ahead of the home team, the Vikings.

Basketball Alumnus

SFU basketball alumnus Chris Evans is heading to Scotland to play professional basketball. On Friday, the 6’0 guard from Port Moody was signed by the University of Edinburgh, where he also intends to continue his studies. This is the first professional contract for Evans, who last played for the Clan in 2013-14.

The Clan fall just short of an incredible comeback

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The Clan showed marked improvement in the second half over the previous two games.

Although the scoreboard indicated a third straight loss for the Clan football team, the 32-24 result against the Azusa Pacific Cougars (APU) showed a team capable of fighting back, and perhaps one headed in the right direction.

SFU started the game with an abysmal first half, giving up 23 points and only managing to score a single field goal.

Right off the first drive, the Cougars converted for a touchdown after possessing the ball for nearly seven straight minutes.

Even though APU took a penalty on kickoff, the Clan were unable to convert for even just a first down during their first drive, which included a sack on quarterback Ryan Stanford. SFU was able to make a 16-yard rush, gaining back some of the yardage lost due to the sack and a false start penalty, before punting at their own 35-yard line.

The second drives for both teams were nearly identical. Azusa had another nearly seven-minute long drive, but SFU was able to hold them to a field goal. The Clan then followed with another fruitless four-play drive.

With 4:56 left in the half, the Clan finally got on the scoreboard with a 39-yard field goal, taking the score to 10-3. SFU also finally found some offensive rhythm, making 12 plays for 51 yards.

However, the Cougars would answer back immediately with two touchdowns before the half was over.

SFU allowed Cougar running back Terrell Watson 51 yards in a single drive and committed a 15-yard personal foul, both of which contributed to the first of the two touchdowns, taking the score to 16-3, as the Cougars missed the extra point kick.

After another ineffective SFU drive, APU would score the final touchdown of the half with 23 seconds left. The Clan could not even hold onto the ball until halftime, throwing an interception in the dying seconds of the half.

However, the second half was an entirely different story for the Clan. In the third quarter, they scored the only points: two touchdowns.

The first was built off a series of small gains and was saved by a bold move to go for a first down, rather than punting, at fourth and one on APU’s 20-yard line; Cole Tudor, who had 34 net rushing yards, ran for a five-yard gain.

The second scoring drive contained a few notable throws by Stanford, with wide receivers Kyle Kawamoto and Bobby Pospischil making 16- and 14-yard catches respectively.

The fourth quarter would bring a bit more trouble for the Clan — they suffered a safety followed immediately by an Azusa touchdown, putting up nine quick points, Azusa’s only points of the half.

SFU would come back with another touchdown after a poor Cougars punt left it at the APU five yard line with 1:08 left in the game.

Down by eight points, a Clan touchdown and a two-point conversion were needed to force overtime. The Clan made an onside kick and recovered the ball, making it to APU’s 21-yard line.

However, the comeback fell just short, as they missed on a fourth down conversion, and turned the ball over to the Cougars, who let the clock run with the final score 32-24.

Though the loss was a stinger, the resolve to come back in the second half showed a lot of heart, and an ability to stay in the game even when down by a seemingly insurmountable lead — something that was not there last game. SFU soundly won the second half 21-9, achieving all but three of their points in that half.

“Unfortunately [when] you combine both halves, you’re not the winner by a number of points but a lot of good things happened in the second half,” said head coach Jacques Chapdelaine. “We eliminated a lot of the costly mistakes that have been negative for us in terms of turnovers, ball security. We reduced the number of penalties.”

Chapdelaine also commented that, during the first half, the team could not stay on the field offensively, while on the defensive side, they were unable to keep the other team at bay. However, he noted that the most important thing is building a winning culture, so that the team perseveres through the mistakes they make and fights back — as they did against Azusa.

“We created and forged an identity for ourselves in the second half,” added the coach. “If there’s a silver lining in this defeat, it’s the fact that I thought our team got better tonight on a whole lot of different levels.”

Urban Outfitters needs to re-think its business strategies

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Frankly, I’m not surprised by Urban Outfitters’ decision to sell a blood-stained, bullet hole-riddled sweater that blatantly refers to the 1970 shooting of four students at Kent State University. But, while the clothing company has released a number of offensive products, this sweater has simply gone too far.

The company sold the single sweater for $129 online; it was then put up for a $2,500 resale on Ebay, before it was eventually taken off the website. I’m sickened by the fact that a person would not only buy this sweater, but then try to re-sell it at such a high price. At this rate, Urban Outfitters and similarly-minded companies might as well begin pumping out Columbine, Sandy Hook Elementary, and Michael Brown attire to sell.

In response to this controversial incident, a slew of overwhelmingly negative comments emerged on social media. For example, Twitter user @toritaylor pointed out the horrific truth in stating, “How[ever] many @UrbanOutfitters staff OK’ed the design before it was printed = how[ever] many people should get fired.”

A company that hides behind poorly thought-out excuses clearly needs to find a new lawyer.

Twitter user @SamSPN13 responded to the incident with, “That’s just a punch in the face. I loved your store. Never shopping there again.”

The fact that the sweater was even up for sale means that it was designed, processed, and deemed appropriate by the company’s administration. Any company that considers graphic portrayals of a deceased person’s blood as an enticing mechanism for profit is one that should not be in business. How staggeringly immoral does a company have to be to entertain this notion?

Urban Outfitters has taken notice of the issue, and has since released an apology for the sweater, stating that “it was never [their] intention to allude to the tragic events that took place at Kent State in 1970.” However, I’m unconvinced that they would coincidentally depict blood splatter and bullet holes on a garment branded “Kent State University.”

In a Twitter statement, Urban Outfitters claimed that the red stains were “discoloration from the original shade of the sweater,” and the holes were due to “natural wear and fray.” If this is the case, then why would there be a $129 price tag? A company that hides behind these poorly thought-out excuses clearly needs to find a new lawyer.

I feel that Urban Outfitters, as a company, employs some of the most distasteful marketing strategies I’ve witnessed, and I will not be shopping there again. Anyone who belittles death and tries to profit from it needs to rethink these actions. Urban Outfitters, earn your profits by making comfortable, stylish, unobjectionable clothing rather than by inexcusable attempts to gain publicity.

How learning to cook has improved my well-being

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Most people can’t pinpoint the exact moment that they became an adult, but I can. I remember it like it was yesterday — the crackle of sizzling flesh, the smoke billowing calmly towards my open window, the smell of a well-cooked bird wafting throughout my studio apartment. What began as a soggy, shrink-wrapped sack of meat and bones had become a picturesque dinner for two through sheer force of will and the time-tested aid of a weathered cookbook.

I had roasted my first whole chicken, and I had become a man.

I’ll admit that, of all my New Year’s resolutions this year, I’ve only kept to one: I promised myself that I would finally learn how to cook, and though it’s hard to say if I’ve fully learned yet, I’m certainly learning. There’s something amazing about taking a mishmash of seemingly unrelated ingredients — a bay leaf here, some garlic powder there, a teaspoon of vinegar — and creating something new and wonderful that you can share with those you love.

It sounds cheesy, I know. But if you’ve ever spent hours in the kitchen making a meal from scratch, you’ll know that it’s worth it to see the faces of those you’re serving light up with genuine pleasure. Like playing the piano or speaking a foreign language, being able to cook (and cook well) is a skill that, once acquired, will serve you for the rest of your life.

Admittedly, part of the inspiration for my culinary goals is connected to having moved out this past spring — as those of you living on your own or with roommates will know, eating out isn’t cheap, and pre-packaged microwaveable meals leave something to be desired for those whose palates can differentiate a reheated pasta bowl from the real deal.

I had roasted my first whole chicken, and I had become a man.

Living with someone who’s often too busy to cook, the onus fell on me to learn how to turn regular grocery shop fare into meals both nutritious and delicious enough to sustain the lifestyles of two busy university students living under one cramped roof.

I was lucky enough growing up to have a father who, similarly, was the head chef of the household — most of what I’ve learned about cooking has been borrowed from him. Whenever I visit him, he shares with me a new recipe he’s been wanting to try, or shows me a new tool he’s bought for the grill. It’s this flair for experimentation that I’ve tried to carry over into my own cramped kitchen space: I’ll often liven up an old recipe with a new ingredient or flavour, just to keep things interesting.

But of all the benefits of learning how to cook for oneself, the one I value most is the ability to feed those I care about: my friends, my family, my partner. Maybe it goes back to our ancestors, who would hunt and gather food for those in their groups or tribes — all I know is, it’s hard to beat the feeling of fulfilment and accomplishment when you know you’ve provided someone you care about with a healthy, home cooked meal.

The best part? Once you get started, it ends up being easier, and much cheaper, than eating ramen and Kraft Dinner for every meal. My advice is to start slow — figure out how to fry an egg and cook a solid bowl of pasta, then move into intermediate fare like making soups and cooking meat. Before you know it, you’ll be wowing your friends and impressing your dates with your culinary flair. Bon appétit!

SFU connections at Word Vancouver

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Take a break from essays, readings, and assignments this weekend and enjoy some non-academic literary entertainment at Word Vancouver.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the annual book and magazine festival is the biggest in Western Canada and takes place September 24 to 28 at various locations in Vancouver. The festival recently expanded to five days culminating in the flagship event on Sunday at Library Square in downtown Vancouver.

The festival kicks off on Wednesday, September 24 with the first event at Paper Hound bookstore on West Pender Street, just a few blocks from both the Harbour Centre and Woodward’s campuses. Kevin Spenst, an SFU alumnus, will host poet Andrew McEwan for a lunchtime reading.

“Festival attendees can take in 100 readings, 150 authors, and 20 workshops — all free,” emphasizes executive director Bryan Pike. Among these, more than a dozen presenters have SFU connections, such as Hugh J.M. Johnston, professor emeritus of history. Johnston will read from his new expanded edition of The Voyage of the Komagata Maru: The Sikh Challenge to Canada’s Colour Bar, which was re-released for the 100-year anniversary of the incident. Johnston also penned Radical Campus: Making Simon Fraser University, with which many students will be familiar.

Poet Phinder Dulai, another SFU alumnus, explores the Komagata Maru incident from a different perspective. On Sunday, Dulai will read from his third poetry collection, dream / arteries, which connects the 376 Sikh passengers with other migrants who travelled on the same ship throughout its 36-year career.

If fiction is more your thing, you need to hear Wayde Compton, director of The Writers’ Studio at SFU, read from his new book The Outer Harbour. Compton, known for his poetry, has written his debut collection of linked short stories, which explores the intersection of place and identity.

If you’re hands-on or DIY-inclined, “new this year, we’re celebrating chapbooks with a workshop, exhibits, readings, and a panel discussion,” says Pike. Continuing Studies instructor Heidi Greco will co-teach a chapbook workshop on Saturday, September 27 at our own Harbour Centre campus (email [email protected] to register). Then, on Sunday, there is a whole section at Library Square dedicated to chapbooks.

Perhaps you’re more interested in traditional publishing in the digital era: you’re in luck! Publishing@SFU is co-presenting several talks at the festival with SFU instructors Monique Sherrett, John Maxwell, and Suzanne Norman on various topics from online marketing to digital books.

After 20 successful years, executive director Bryan Pike attributes Word Vancouver’s on-going popularity to the event’s accessibility, “primarily by remaining 100 per cent free and providing all-ages programming, making it inclusive and accessible.”

However, as funding sources decline and costs rise, the Word Vancouver team is turning to crowd funding. “We’ve launched our ‘Keep it Free’ campaign on Indiegogo, which runs until the 29th of September,” says Pike. “Funds raised will ensure future audiences get to experience our great writing and publishing community in the form of Word Vancouver, for free, for many years to come.”

The other great thing about Word Vancouver is that there is something for everyone from children’s literature, poetry, magazines, and writing workshops, to booths for local arts and literary organizations, book arts demos, and even musical performances.

Full schedule details are available at www.wordvancouver.ca or pick up a program guide at your local bookstore or library.

 

VIFF partners with SFU Woodward’s as a screening venue

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This year, the Vancouver International Film Festival will come to SFU Woodward’s. Celebrating its 33rd year, this annual festival brings some of the best films from around the globe to Vancouver, and is making a stop at all of SFU’s campuses.

VIFF and SFU have partnered to host free screenings of this year’s official VIFF selections at both the Surrey and Burnaby campuses — screenings at the Woodward’s campus are part of the regular ticketed programming. Anyone can view seven films that were hand-picked by artistic director Alan Franey and representatives from both SFU Burnaby and Surrey, free of charge. At Burnaby, Class Enemy, The Womb, Before the Last Curtain Falls, and Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story will play on October 1 and 2, while on October 8 and 10 Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story, Horses of Fukushima, Noble, and Flowing Stories will play in Surrey.

Class Enemy by debuting director Rok Bicek revolves around a group of Slovenian teens who blame their new and demanding German teacher when one of their classmates commits suicide. The Womb, a thriller from Peru, follows the life and pregnancy of Mercedes, played by Mayella Lloclla. Things take a dark turn for Mercedes when she is hired as a housemaid by wealthy widow Silvia, played by Vanessa Saba. Before the Last Curtain Falls follows a troupe of 60 and 70-year-old gay and trans performers on the last leg of a huge tour.

By filmmakers Jen Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin, Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story speaks on the colossal and shocking waste of food currently occurring in North America. Horses of Fukushima tells the stories of horses destined to the meat trade that are ironically saved by the the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Featuring Brendan Coyle (Downton Abbey), Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones) and Ruth Negga (12 Years a Slave), Nobel  tells the inspiring story of Christina Noble who finds her life’s work in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Flowing Stories is a bittersweet documentary following the lives of a family in Hong Kong over many decades, featuring real home video footage, and photos.

The VIFF presence will be strongest at the SFU’s Woodward’s campus, as the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts will present 60 screenings. Through SFU Woodward’s cultural programs, this festival will be made available to both the SFU community and all those living in Vancouver. This partnership allows amazing films to be seen by students, staff, faculty and the greater public, giving us all the opportunity to experience this world-renowned festival.

For all students who wish to attend the film festival, use promo code VIFF14SFU for a discount. A true celebration of the art of film, VIFF will be at SFU Woodward’s from September 25 to October 10. For more information, visit sfu.ca or viff.org

Laughter is bitter in The Skeleton Twins

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Sometimes the only thing that stops us from crying is laughing.

Perhaps this is the reason depressing subject matter such as suicide, infidelity, and sexual abuse makes Craig Johnson’s indie comedy, The Skeleton Twins, such a hoot. In the film, two former Saturday Night Live comics, Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader, play twins whose lives and psyches were irreparably damaged when their father committed suicide during their childhood.

Hader’s character, Milo, is an unsuccessful gay actor who moves back in with his sister after an attempted suicide. While there, Milo tries to get back with an old boyfriend — we later discover this is the teacher with whom he engaged in a sexual relationship when he was 15. Milo sees nothing wrong with the relationship and pursues it as an adult.

His sister, Maggie (Kristen Wiig), who coincidently attempted to commit suicide at the same time, is dealing with equally troubling problems. She is married to a kind man, but one she doesn’t wholeheartedly love. She sleeps around with other men while secretly taking birth control pills to prevent the pregnancy that her husband so desperately wants.

None of this sounds very funny, yet Johnson has managed to make one of the more humorous movies of the year; the genius is that he masterfully melds sitcom-like gags and the character’s melancholic issues.

As we delve further into the material, we see how these characters use their outgoing personalities to mask and forget about their hang ups. As the darkness slowly begins to diminish the light in the story, the humour disappears and the characters’ inner conflicts take center stage.

What could have been a film where juvenile humour undermines the more serious patches of the story, actually ends up being a film with especially nuanced and flushed out characters. The tonal shifts could have been jarring and unnatural, but since they are grounded in the characters and exceptionally navigated by the two central performances, they feel authentic.

For example, there is a scene where Milo and Maggie have a solemn fight and, to lighten the mood and escape the real issues at hand, Milo walks over to the stereo and blasts Starship’s glossy pop song “Nothing’s Going to Stop Us Now.” He busts out flamboyant dance moves and exaggerated lip syncing. Maggie is annoyed at first but can’t help being drawn in by her brother. She too starts to lip sync. It’s a touching yet hilarious sequence that also fits alongside the character’s personalities and coping mechanisms.

When the pop song is over and there are no more comedic sequences the film fearlessly enters into the characters’ hurts; however, it only retreads the same beats that it previously explored in the humorous moments. By the third act, the film stretches its running time to feature length with purposeless flashback montages.

Skeleton Twins is at its best when we laugh with a bitter taste, than when the humor disappears. In the case of Johnson’s film, I suppose it is better to laugh than cry.

The Boxtrolls is entertaining for children and adults

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Animated children’s films are a tricky recipe to get right. They must entertain two widely different demographics with antithetic expectations: children need simplistic stories with simple messages, while adults desire material that is more complicated and cerebral. The Boxtrolls is the rare film that manages to bring the two groups together.

Boxtrolls is a glorious stop-motion animated film by the studio that captured our imagination with such wonderments as Coraline and ParaNorman. Here, Laika Studios is back at it with yet another dark fable, examining how evil men can rise to the top of governments by employing fear and marginalizing minorities.

The allegory, which closely reflects Hitler’s rise to power in Germany, will likely go over the heads of many children, but they will still latch onto the imaginative world and sympathetic characters that directors Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi put forth.

In a medieval looking world where trolls are clothed with scrap cardboard boxes, a red hat wearing Archibald Snatcher — whose headdress signifies his role as the military enforcer of the city — pursues the prestige of a white hat, which signifies wealth and an influential role in government. Snatcher earns his white hat by scaring the citizens and government into thinking that the harmless trolls who live in the sewer are out to eat their children.

Snatcher stages the kidnapping of a boy named Eggs, which eventually leads to his identity crisis as he is raised by trolls. Years later this boy who identifies himself as a troll suppresses his human characteristics in order to fit in with the trolls with whom he feels connected.

Meanwhile, the daughter of the town’s mayor is neglected and yearning for a father figure as her dad spends more time fretting over tasting exotic cheeses with his fat bureaucrat friends than raising her. Although she lives in a place of privilege, she is far more lonely and unhappy than her counterpart, Eggs — a boy who also never got to know his father.

The two meet through a spectacular coincidence and they slowly build a friendship as they share knowledge: she teaches him about human traits and he offers her insight on the underground society of trolls that have been misrepresented through propaganda and Archibald Snatcher’s fear tactics.

The movie has humorous sequences of propaganda cabarets and satirical exaggerations of the bourgeoisie that, while a bit complex, introduce great moments to teach kids the dangers of handing one’s freedoms over to a militaristic regime. These will also make this a viewing experience that older audiences can enjoy as much, if not more, than their youngsters.

Children will enjoy the slapstick turmoil that the trolls find themselves in; they offer something similar to the minions in Despicable Me, but the darker aspects of the material force us to empathize with them.

Parents should be aware that the film deals with a genocide of the trolls, and may want to evaluate whether the film is appropriate for younger children. However, those in the eight to 10 year range will likely be able to handle the disturbing visuals while also appreciating the identity crisis and parental void in the protagonists.

The trolls don’t talk but convey their shtick through body language and facial expressions, so it’s quite remarkable how much I came to care for these sweet, ugly trolls. As the on-screen critters are always up to something, the critters sitting in the seats next to you won’t be crawling or stirring up any trouble.

Since You Left Us is a hilarious tale of dysfunction

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Like watching a hilarious television sitcom, Since You Left Us is about a sister returning home to her dysfunctional family and learning to accept them for who they are. Susinn McFarlen has written characters that are just exaggerated enough to make you laugh out loud, yet authentic enough to represent people you know.

Fanny (Jillian Fargey) shows up at her sister Denny’s house in Vancouver after flying from Toronto to look for her runaway son, Danno (Mike Gill). Denny (Colleen Wheeler) has her dog Jack in a baby carrier and, having just come back from their mother’s birthday party at Hooters, is furious that Jack wasn’t allowed in the restaurant.

One by one, the rest of Fanny’s family arrives, including their mother, Dolly (Erla Faye Forsyth). Dolly keeps saying that they have to get back to Hooters and her birthday party, but they never make it out of the house.

Although the play takes place in Denny’s living room, it is full of action and family drama, including the revelation that Dolly is now sleeping with Fanny’s ex-boyfriend, Chuck (Derek Metz). Chuck, beer cooler in tow and beer always in hand, raises each new beer to the exclamation, “First one today!”

In the midst of the drunken birthday party, Fanny is trying to convince her son to come home with her to Toronto, but he insists on staying in Vancouver. Denny ardently defends her position of equating Jack (her dog) to Danno, and Dolly doesn’t give a damn about any of it; as long as she’s got a beer in her hand, she’s happy.

These ridiculous characters and their endearing dysfunction had me laughing more than I’ve laughed at the theatre in quite a while, and I loved all the Vancouver references. Dolly’s comments, for instance, that she lives on the North Shore “where all the normal people live,” and not in East Van, which she claims is an extremely dangerous neighbourhood. She also finds it absurd that someone would want to cross a bridge, go through the downtown core, and cross another bridge to see The Sound of Music at Arts Club and watch “someone else’s kids pretend to be the kids from the movie.”

An extremely talented cast, versatile set with details such as paw prints on every surface, and hilarious writing all came together to create this impressive piece of theatre.

 

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