1 Hour Photo

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From the award-winning Canadian playwright, performer, and radio broadcaster Tetsuro Shigematsu comes 1 Hour Photo, the follow-up to his acclaimed one-man play Empire of the Son, which was nominated for six Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards. Shigematsu's outstanding new play, another multifaceted portrayal of a singular figure, tells the story of Mas Yamamoto, a man whose life was swept up by the major currents of the twentieth century: came out. The U.S. Department of Defense launched a series of satellites you know as GPS. 1977 was the year the Apple II went on sale. You wouldn't have wanted the Apple I. It was made of wood. Seriously! ... But for my money, the coolest thing to launch in 1977 was one of the very first digital cameras. It was the size of a Volkswagen Beetle, if you can believe it, but here's the cool thing: they called it Voyager." 's Mas Yamamoto is a grand theatrical persona, his life saturated with the most vivid colours of our times.

Tetsuro Shigematsu is a Canadian playwright, comedian, and radio broadcaster. Originally trained in the fine arts, he found a creative outlet writing for CBC Television's This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Then, in 2004, he became the first person of colour to host a daily national radio program in Canada when he took over The Roundup on CBC Radio, for which he co-wrote and co-produced nearly a thousand hours of network programming. He has written and produced more than fifty pieces of radio drama as well as the feature film Yellow Fellas (2007). He is currently a Vanier scholar and Ph.D. candidate at the University of British Columbia. Follow him on Twitter (@tweetsuro) or visit his website, shiggy.com.

"The play's also a technical and multimedia achievement, building off the experiments that Shigematsu and his production team first tried out during the Empire of the Sonrun. Audiences can expect a barrage of video footage, intricately designed scale models as set pieces, and a combination of live and recorded audio and music." -Ben Bengtson, North Shore News "Like its predecessor, 1 Hour Photo is both emotionally revealing and formally inventive." -Georgia Straight