Early returns

You’ll barely have time to recover from New Year’s before getting roped in by One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo. Here are five shows not to miss at the start of the festival.

Hot Brown Honey

The festival starts with a fun show with a social message. Hot Brown

Honey is a dance/hip-hop piece with a feminist theme that brings attention to the plight of women of colour. Wednesday, Jan. 3 to Saturday, Jan. 6 at Theatre Junction Grand, 608 1st St. S.W. Various times. $15 - $40.

Reassembled, Slightly Askew

Playwright Shannon Yee fell ill with a brain infection, underwent brain surgery and emerged with a hidden disability. You experience her journey through a pair of headphones while lying on a hospital bed. Friday, Jan. 5 to Saturday, Jan. 13 at St. Louis Hotel, 430 8th Ave. S.E. Various times. $15 - $35.

Onegin

Veda Hille and Amiel Gladstone (creators, with Bill Richardson, of Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata) reimagine Alexander Pushkin’s 1825 poem

as a musical theatre piece. Friday, Jan. 5 to Saturday, Jan. 13 at Max Bell Theatre, Arts Commons. 7:30 p.m. $30 - $50.

10-Minute Play Festival

The concept is familiar; the plays are fresh each year. This year’s participants are Calgary Young People’s Theatre, Chromatic Theatre, Downstage, Handsome Alice, Swallow-a-Bicycle and Verb Theatre. Saturday, Jan. 6 at Martha Cohen Theatre, Arts Commons. 7:30 p.m. $25 - $35.

Moon, Moon, No Moon

One Yellow Rabbit’s contribution to the festival is a musical one about “humankind’s millennia-long relationship with the moon.” And they’re inviting special guests—including Bruce McCulloch, on Jan. 12 and Jan. 13. Tuesday, Jan. 9 to Saturday, Jan. 27 at Big Secret Theatre, Arts Commons. 8 p.m. $15 - $40.