Caravan returns to its roots in Victoria
The Caravan Stage Company has returned to its hometown for a series of performances aboard a 27-metre-high tall ship docked in the Inner Harbour.
Nomadic Tempest, an experimental rock opera about a band of monarch butterflies, will be performed tonight and Sunday at 8:30 p.m. on the Amara Zee, the theatre company’s purpose-built replica of a Thames River sailing barge.
The internationally known mobile stage company got its start in Victoria in 1970, but has not produced a show in the city in more than 30 years.
Tonight’s performance is sold out, but seats for Sunday are still available.
Organizers have asked that guests bring their own low-rise chair and blanket, as seating is limited. Admission is free, but guests must register for tickets via eventbrite.com.
Guests board the ship from the lower parking lot at 1112 Wharf St.
The contemporary theatre company will perform the rock opera four times next week, from Sept. 20-23, at 8:30 p.m. each night.
For more information, visit caravanstage.org. The Farquhar Auditorium at the University of Victoria opens its 2017-18 season with a performance tonight by one of Victoria’s best-loved comedians.
Two-act comedy God is a Scottish Drag Queen: The Second Coming is the product of Mike Delamont, who plays the role of God — who, in this case, is a middle-aged, pantsuit-wearing Scottish aunt.
Delamont debuted God is a Scottish Drag Queen in 2011 at the Victoria Event Centre. In the years since, the character (which he conceived with Atomic Vaudeville co-founder Jacob Richmond in 2006) has become one of Delamont’s bestknown creations.
He is taking God is a Scottish Drag Queen: The Second Coming on the road, beginning Tuesday in Indianapolis.
Among the tour’s seven dates in October are stops in Courtenay (Oct. 14) and Duncan (Oct. 19).
Tickets are available for $22.75 (student/alumni) or $32.75 (general public) through the University Centre box office (3800 Finnerty Rd.), by phone at 250-721-8480 or online at tickets.uvic.ca.
Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Saltspring Island’s Pitchfork Social — which combines Americana music with organic food set in 24 acres of rolling pastures — will add to its impressive roster of alumni with a performance tonight by singer-songwriter Amy Helm.
The daughter of the Band’s Levon Helm and artist Libby Titus played a key role in developing the Midnight Rambles sessions that took place at her family’s farm and barn in upstate New York.
Like the Helm family jams, the Pitchfork Social is housed inside a barn that has been converted into a live-music venue.
Tickets are $35 through Salt Spring Books and Fever Tree Trading.
They are also available online at brownpapertickets.com.
A pre-show farm-to-table dinner is available starting at 5:30 p.m., but is not included in the ticket price.
The Pitchfork Social operates from May through October. Its final event of the year is an Oct. 13 concert by The Voice finalist Sarah Potenza.
To date, the popular event has attracted Richard Thompson, Cowboy Junkies, Hayes Carll, David Francey and others to the picturesque site at Bullock Lake Farm (360 Upper Ganges Rd.).