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T.J. Dawe

 

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TJ Dawe is a Vancouver based writer/performer. He has toured the fringe festival circuits numerous times and toured extensively throughout North America and Australia. He received a Jessie Richardson Award for Best New Play or Musical in 1998 for TIRED CLICHES. In 2001, TJ Dawe received the "Just For Laughs" Comedy Award in Montreal for THE SLIPKNOT and was remounted at the Just For Laughs On the Edge series, which also featured Scott Thompson of the Kids in the Hall. TJ was the winner of the "Best Male Performer" award at the 2002 Orlando International Fringe Festival. His solo shows are influenced by Spalding Gray, Daniel MacIvor and George Carlin. He has frequently been likened to Lord Buckley, Jerry Seinfeld and Eric Bogosian. Although he uses elements of stand-up comedy, his shows are very theatrical, exploring serious subjects and using music and physical theatre.

Times and Dates

Sept 20 Richmond, Indiana
Sept 27 Terrace, BC
Oct 3 Tsawwassen, BC
Oct 8 Mission , BC
Feb 27 Denman Island
March 21 Burnaby, BC

 

 

 

shows

Totem Figures

Totem Figures is a ninety minute monologue about personal mythology. About the idea that we're all the main character in our own epic adventure. About having one's own personal Mt. Rushmore. TJ extrapolates this concept, and exemplifies it with his own mythology. His life story, inner and outer.

Reviews from the Winnipeg Fringe

CBC - 4 stars

The Winnipeg Free Press - 4 1/2 stars

 

A Canadian Bartender at Butlin's

A Canadian Bartender at Butlin's tells the story of a working holiday spent pouring pints in the piano bar of Butlin's Holiday Centre - a British institution, mocked for decades, and deservedly so.
Spoofed in the movie Tommy. Subject of a BBC sitcom. And an absolute shithole. Imagine if Walmart ran holiday resorts. Butlin's is Walmart with overnight accomodations.
Walmart surrounded by a spiked iron fence.
Walmart with beer.
And in house entertainment.
In the land of Oxford. Shakespeare.
Tom Stoppard.
Chariots of Fire.
Crisps.
Swimming-in-grease heart attack breakfasts.

 

The Curse of the Trickster

This one's an experiment, folks (well, they're all experiments) (art should always be dangerous). Anyway, there's no story. No tales of a shitty job. But there is rapid fire speech. There is autobiography. There is copious riffing.
The Curse of the Trickster is a fugue. It's a series of interwoven threads. Rants intertwine with shorter stories about some of the most miserable nights of my life. "Things You Never Hear People Say" are interspersed in a long argument about what bullshit it is that we're all supposed to buy DVDs instead of rent them.

The Slipknot

The Slip-Knot is a one person show about working horrible day jobs: stock-boy at a drug store, truck driver for a dumpster company and Christmas parcel tracker for the post office. There are three subplots: a long distance relationship, an attempt to sell a used van and the ordeal of finding an apartment in a new city.

 

Labrabor

Labrador is about a part of the world that practically no one knows anything about - Canada's own Siberia. The narrator's passport there is a children's theatre tour of Treasure Island. While there he stays at the Two Seasons Inn, gets screeched in, explores his father's Newfoundland roots and stumbles on a familysecret. It's a show about the cycle of generations, about the blurry line between autobiography and fiction and about the way Newfoundlanders say "yes" while drawing in breath.

 

 

Tired Clichés

Tired Cliches at first, seems to be a scattering of monologues on unrelated thoughts - graveyard shifts, traffic lights, how gracefully cats vomit, and doesn’t the word “skiing” just look wrong? Little by little a story emerges about a main character who graduates from university and finds himself with Nothing To Do and Nowhere To Go but the delightful world of minimum wage work. There’s a jump into a pile of boxes and a surprise ending that ties everything together.
“TJ Dawe is unnervingly captivating, increasingly edgy and brilliantly funny” - Patrick McDonald, Adelaide Advertiser (Australia)

PRESS KITS

Bio

TJ Dawe - Adobe PDF

Shows

Totem Figures - Winnipeg - Press Release

A Canadian Bartender at Butlins - Reviews

The Slipknot - Press Releases - Reviews

The Curse of The Trickster - Press Releases - Reviews

Photos

 

 

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