TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Political Theatre at the E-Town International Fringe
6 PM Mountain Time FM 88.5 Edmonton cjsr.com Tonight on the programme, a first for The Terrordome : features on two plays at the Edmonton International Fringe Festival, the second-largest theatre festival in the world. In the second half of tonight’s show, I’ll be speaking with the actors and directors of Honey in the Lion’s Head , an electrifying retelling of the Biblical story of Samson and Delilah , with overtones of the modern Israel-Palestine conflict . NGGRFG But first I’ll be talking with actor-p laywright B erend McKenzie and director Deni s Simpson about McKenzie’s autobiographical play they’re presenting. I will warn you, their title is a shocker, and portions of tonight’s interviews and excerpts contain adult language guaranteed to offend some. McKenzie’s and Simpson’s play is called Niggerfag . As the title suggests, the play’s an ex amination, through vignettes of several parts of McKenzie’s life, of the pain, humour, bew ilderment, exhilaration, alienation, terror and lo...