The Talking Turk at MasterMaq's Blog

By Mack D. Male | March 5, 2005 at 5:02 pm

Last night I went to see Stewart Lemoine’s “The Salon of the Talking Turk” with Sharon at the Varscona Theatre. We didn’t have tickets, and so weren’t sure we’d be able to get in, but it turned out that I was right and Sharon was wrong, haha, it wasn’t sold out.

Here’s a little about the play:

Leona Brausen stars as Cornelia, an affable divorcee with a latent longing for scientific enlightenment, and Davina Stewart plays her best friend Dominica, a free-thinking flapper and serial fiancée whose uncharacteristic embrace of thrift will have far-reaching implications for everyone she knows. Lanky newcomer Andrew MacDonald-Smith plays Cornelia’s over-achieving layabout brother Wally, and Mark Meer is back with Teatro in a sensational turn as the mysteriously enlightened and frankly opinionated automaton, The Talking Turk.

I really enjoyed the show, probably a little more than Sharon did. It was full of excellent one-liners, like “faith is for the busy”. The only thing we noticed is that the actors made quite a few errors in their lines, somewhat surprising when you consider that they have performed the same stuff every day for the last two weeks.

We stopped at Starbucks on Whyte after for coffee. There are some things you only find on Whyte Avenue, and I am continually amazed. We saw four people in bright orange t-shirts with matching hair promoting a spa. We saw a group of four pirates walk past. An ambulance and a fire truck descended on the building next to us. Drunk people falling all over the place. A woman carrying a case of beer (is she crazy?). You name it!

Anyway, thanks Sharon!

2 Responses to “The Talking Turk”

Only Here for the Food » Blog Archive » Food Notes for November 9, 2009 Says:
November 9th, 2009 at 11:44 pm

[...] that we should have our fortunes read by the very aggressive Zoltar. He really reminded me of Mark Meer in Salon of the Talking Turk, even though I’m sure it should have been the other way [...]

Why Edmonton’s Teatro La Quindicina and actor Jeff Haslam will never get my business again at MasterMaq's Blog Says:
August 17th, 2010 at 10:12 pm

[...] don’t write about theatre as much as Sharon does, but I do mention it from time to time, such as when we went to see The Talking Turk back in March 2005. Over the years I have come to really enjoy local theatre, and Teatro in [...]