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Little Wagon Theatre brings comedy to Nelson streets

There will be various performances of It’s Jest a Show throughout the weekend
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From left, Emma Chart, Noah Srahulek-Kingsley, Quinn Barron and Ingrid Love in a fractured version of the King Arthur legend performed in Gyro Park on Wednesday. Photo: Bill Metcalfe

Little Wagon Theatre has been presenting theatre performances on the streets of Nelson for the past week and will continue through the weekend.

Emma Chart, Quinn Barron, Ingrid Love and Noah Srahulek-Kingsley are all youth theatre veterans in Nelson who plan to continue studying theatre.

Their Facebook page says the show is “a half hour program of comedic content that takes you on a journey from the tuna fish aisle at the supermarket to a political press conference at the circus.”

Intercepted by the Star before their children’s performance at Gyro Park on Wednesday, their description of their performances was collective and rapid-fire, with each of them finishing the others’ sentences, making the attribution of specific statements to a specific one of the four actors utterly futile:

“There is music, funny costumes, musical theatre, individual monologues with added hints of other surprises, a big variety of material, some Monty Python, some weird unknown stuff, drawing from all areas, a good show for all ages-ish.

“We are doing mostly comedy. Today we are doing a kids show but otherwise we are hitting the streets with various comedy shows, some clowning.

“The learning curve of it has been finding what pieces draw people, what is something that will engage someone in the three seconds they are walking by, what will make them stop for a second.

“Yes, people are stopping, that feels pretty darn good, it’s feeling better than expected, you have to be unoffended if an audience member might watch for a second and move on because you don’t know what their day is like, and any time they take to stop and watch is pretty flattering. Even if we don’t get them to fall in love, we can deal with the heartbreak of them just staying for a little bit.”

Upcoming performances:

Friday:

11:00 a.m. at the Kootenay Co-op Community Gardens

12:30 p.m. on Baker Street beside Backroads Brewing

Saturday:

11:00 a.m. at Cottonwood Market

12:00 noon at Hall St. Plaza

5:00 p.m. at Hall St. Plaza

Sunday:

12:30 p.m. Kootenay Co-op Community Gardens

1:30 p.m. Baker Street beside Backroads Brewing

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Little Wagon Theatre, from left: Emma Chart, Quinn Barron, Noah Srahulek-Kingsley and Ingrid Love. Photo: Bill Metcalfe
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Little Wagon Theatre performs The Three Bears in Gyro Park. Photo: Bill Metcalfe


Bill Metcalfe

About the Author: Bill Metcalfe

I have lived in Nelson since 1994 and worked as a reporter at the Nelson Star since 2015.
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