Get Kafkaesque: As part of the ongoing Chutzpah Festival, Alon Nashman works through Franz Kafka’s daddy issues at the Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre in his one-man show Kafka and Son based on the famous writer’s private letter to his father Hermann in1919 accusing him of being an emotionally abusive prick.
Get some history: As part of their weekly spotlight on important B.C. films, the Cinematheque is screening Philip Borsos classic 1982 film The Grey Fox about gentleman bandit Bill Miner, an aging Old West stagecoach and train robber released into the 20th century after decades in prison.
Get quizzed: Do you know who coined such touchstone terms from back in the day as “Schwing,” “Cowabunga,” “Alrighty then” or “Talk to the hand”? Test your knowledge of nineties pop culture and the glory years of Gen Xers, a time when flannel and goatees were fashionable, cellphones enormous and Internet dial-up, when the Waldorf’s hosts 90s Kids Trivia Night tonight inside the Tiki Room.
Get theological: The Arts Club's Revue Stage hosts the premiere of Shawn Macdonald’s new play Sister Judy, about a popular theology professor and Christian sister whose world is rocked when a brilliant new student challenges her notions of love and devotion.
Get booming: Fringe fest fave Rick Miller (MacHomer, Bigger Than Jesus) brings his latest one-man show BOOM that takes aim at baby boomers at West Van’s Kay Meek Centre featuring multi-media projections to highlight the major global events of the era (1945-1969) ranging from the Cold War to Beatlemania, Trudeaumania, JFK, MLK and the summer of love.
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