{"id":14954,"date":"2017-11-06T13:35:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T21:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14954"},"modified":"2017-11-07T09:27:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T17:27:01","slug":"satirical-revue-about-canada-fun-and-educational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/11\/06\/satirical-revue-about-canada-fun-and-educational\/","title":{"rendered":"Satirical revue about Canada fun and educational"},"content":{"rendered":"

By the time I found parking and walked across the University of Victoria\u2019s Ring Road on Saturday, November 4\u2014a cold fall night\u2014I was happy to be in the warm Farquhar Auditorium to catch the satirical revue Canada, It\u2019s Complicated<\/em>. But I still didn\u2019t quite know what to expect, aside from some satire about our country.<\/p>\n

Canada, It\u2019s Complicated <\/em>begins with a video of people talking about what it means to be Canadian; it isn\u2019t funny, but the humour picks up quickly.<\/p>\n

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Canada, It’s Complicated<\/em> is equal parts humour and education (photo by Greg Locke).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When host Jamie Pitt takes the stage, she quickly begins poking fun at Canadian traditions in the usual ways: we love our double-doubles from Tim\u2019s, we say \u201csorry\u201d more than people from other countries, etc. But things get serious quick, as we are reminded that we as Canadians have a lot to be sorry for, considering we took the land that Canada is on from people who were willing to share then promptly told them to hush up and leave us to our ways. That\u2019s the beauty of this show: sometimes it\u2019s funny and sometimes it\u2019s educational, but usually it\u2019s both.<\/p>\n

There is singing and dancing, and a bit of guitar; the lyrical catchphrase is \u201cthe foundation of our nation is a big fat lie!\u201d But at times the movement of characters on stage, combined with the guitar playing and singing, feels a little bit out of place, as though the jovial, care-free nature of these parts of the show are not satire but a big middle finger to Canadian traditions. The dialogue is usually funny and the dancing and singing gives the show a bit of a kick when it needed one.<\/p>\n

During this particular night, the microphones glitched out occasionally and when the characters spoke in French, the English subtitles lagged behind what they were actually saying. But all in all, Canada, It\u2019s Complicated<\/em> is a clever way to show the value of living in a free country that knows the importance of taking a good joke in a world that is getting harder and harder to laugh at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By the time I found parking and walked across the University of Victoria\u2019s Ring Road on Saturday, November 4\u2014a cold fall night\u2014I was happy to be in the warm Farquhar Auditorium to catch the satirical revue Canada, It\u2019s Complicated. But I still didn\u2019t quite know what to expect, aside from some satire about our country. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14956,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14954\/revisions\/14956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}