Vancouver: Stone-age fun in storytelling, Neanderthal Arts Festival presents fresh and original fare
In a cemetery outside 17th Century London, two trolls meet by the discarded corpse of a hanged judge.
If that doesn’t get your attention, nothing will. That’s what the organizers of Vancouver’s newest summer theatre happening, the Neanderthal Arts Festival, are banking on.
While naming a festival after the thickest-skulled of our human ancestors might at first seem a bit masochistic, the organizers have their reasons. Turns out, Neanderthal doesn’t need to mean thuggish. In this instance it symbolizes the rugged spirit of a brave little festival hanging out a sign in the middle of an economic recession.
The trolls are characters from a play called The Hanging Judge, written by Vancouver playwright Andrey Summer. While deciding whether to eat a (still breathing) man they have bound in a bag, they discuss the philosophy of the enlightenment. Off beat and irregular, fresh and original, the play typifies the type of production found in the festival.
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