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Unkl Stiv’s Looping Machine

Unkl Stiv’s Looping Machine

Written and performed by Steve Pirot

February 20 - February 21

Unkl Stiv’s Looping Machine

Theatre Network Mainstage Series presents

Unkl Stiv’s Looping Machine

Written & Performed by Steve Pirot

“…a maestro at work painting with the English language…”
– The Edmonton Journal
“Mesmerizing!”
– Laura Kate

Presented at the 2023 and 2024 Edmonton Fringe, the spoken-word rhapsody Unkl Stiv’s Looping Machine is here again to repeat and reiterate
that half-remembered dream of The Half-Earth told in a voice that is
half dog, half butterfly, half ape, half banana cream pie, half half-and-half, and half this guy
a Half-Moon bedtime story for You,..
for You there are
no other types of stories:
no other types of once upon a time
(pik’cherz by BigAl)

Featuring Steve Pirot as The Looping Machine with indivisible support from Alysson McKee.

Biographies

Steve Pirot

Steve Pirot (a.k.a., UNKL STIV) is an Edmontonionian, an artiste, administrateur, and zany stoic… in that disorder. Previous episodes at The Roxy Theatre include Playing Bare, Excavations, Faithless, Hockey Stories For Boys, Freeman On The Land, The Play About The Baby, and Dapper Dan’s Indian & Outlaw Extravaganza. Unkl Stiv’s current vocalization vocation is to be rambling at an Edmonton arts festival near you. History tells us he used to be Festival Director of Nextfest, Co-Artistic Producer of Azimuth Theatre, and Artistic Director of iHuman Studios, but is now the Executive Director of the Edmonton Poetry Festival Society.

Alysson Mckee

Alysson McKee (a.k.a., BIG AL) is a sidekick, writer, visual artist, performer, publisher, and zany stoic… in that disorder. She also is a very good dog, also, and also she is also the resident illustrator of The Empire Of Sand. Also as well as also she also has a brain the size of a planet, but nowhere to keep it. While she oft be heard kicking ass at oil can open mics in town, she has also dabbled in the legitimate theatre with Skirts A Fire, FoundFest, Nextfest, and PepperMUNT Cabaret. Her several disgraceful publications under her proprietorship banner “Western Exotic” seek to normalize smut comics, but also in the meantime she is also available also for murals also.

Drag

Theatre Network Mainstage

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