My
Dad, My Dog is a sometimes hilarious and always beautifully honest account
of a North
Korean woman (Sherry J. Yoon) who is convinced that her father has
returned to her reincarnated as a dog.
Through her encounters with a man
who loves pigeons (James Fagan Tait) and a young filmmaker obsessed
with monster
movies (Billy Marchenski) we discover how much animals teach us about
our own humanity. Animation, miniatures, watercolour,
live performance and music blend together, converse and speculate on what life
might be like behind the last scrap of the iron curtain. | “My
Dad, My Dog
keeps theatre alive.”
What's
Up Yukon “Nobody
else is doing
work like this.”
Georgia Straight “BOCA
DEL LUPO
is so consistently innovative that its members must sweat bullets
to top themselves.”
The Vancouver Sun |
| A
commission of the PuSh
International Performing Arts Festival, where it premiered just
before coming to the Yukon, My Dad, My Dog is a co-creation between
Sherry J. Yoon and Jay Dodge of Boca
del Lupo and Yukon-based animation artist Jay White. This team
creates a delightfully simple world where fantasy so seamlessly transgresses reality
that you will leave the theatre second guessing your own shadow. |  |
