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Michael
Green
Co-founder and co-artistic director of One Yellow Rabbit, Michael began his theatre career with Ikarus – one of Calgary's first avant-garde theatre companies. Michael is a writer, director, producer, and has acted in innumerable productions between 1975 and the present.
Michael wears many hats. As a member of the One Yellow Rabbit performing ensemble, he has created many memorable characters in shows including Doing Leonard Cohen, In Klezkavania and Somalia Yellow. His cabaret performances Yowl and The Whaler are legendary. His playwriting for the company includes Naked West, Dreams of a Drunken Quaker, Lives of the Saints (with Andy Curtis), and Alien Bait (written with Blake Brooker). His book of plays Dreams of a Drunken Quaker - Two Plays and a Rant was published by AB Press in 1992. Directing credits for One Yellow Rabbit include Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King (with Elise Ménard) and Lives of the Saints. Recently, Michael has been leading the Shiny Beast/Whip It Out Ensemble as they prepare for their upcoming tribute to Frank Zappa's art and music, Zappaphelia (working title). His most recent performances with One Yellow Rabbit have included The Baron in In Klezkavania and Les in Friction (part of the series Liberators, Occupiers and Population), which played at the 2005 High Performance Rodeo and toured to Maastricht, Netherlands and Berlin, Germany.
Michael is the Founder and Curator of the High Performance Rodeo, One Yellow Rabbit's annual festival of new and experimental performance and one of Canada's most important multidisciplinary performance festivals.
Selected plays
In alphabetical order by title:
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by Michael Green and Blake Brooker with Lindsay Burns, Denise Clarke and Andy Curtis
Style: Drama
Number of acts: Full length one act
Length: 90 minutes
Total actors required: 4
Men: 2
Women: 2
Synopsis:
Alien Bait takes place at a UFO symposium where a panel of egghead experts try to explain away the supposed visitations by extraterrestrials while the victims of those visitations, who’ve come looking for answers, are instead forced to turn to one another for support.
Production History:
Produced by One Yellow Rabbit, 1995.
Performed Big Secret Theatre, Calgary, 1995; Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1995; Tron Theatre, Glasgow, 1995; Factory Theatre, Toronto, 1996; Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver, 1996
by Michael Green
Style: Comedy
Number of acts: Three acts
Length: 60 mins
Total actors required: 2
Men: 2
Women: 0
Synopsis:
The play consists of three seemingly unrelated parts: 'Blackmail House,' a pas de deux for male dancers/voices; 'Horse Killer,' a quest fairy tale about sheep, horses, dung beetles, and a hero named Iceland; and 'King Scabbard & I,' a free-association word-and-image game between characters named Flesh and Stump, with an inflatable globe, a baby carriage, and an eight-candle ritual.
Production History:
Produced by One Yellow Rabbit, 1988-1990.
Performed Big Secret Theatre, Calgary, 1990; Fringe Festival, Edmonton, 1990; East Vancouver Cultural Centre, Vancouver, 1990
Dreams of a Drunken Quaker was published as part of Dreams of a Drunken Quaker, Naked West & Yowl: Two plays & A Rant; Collector Publishing, 1992.
by Michael Green, Andy Curtis, Owen Demers and Laura Parken
Style: Comedy
Number of acts: Full length one act
Length: 90 mins
Total actors required: 3
Men: 2
Women: 1
Synopsis:
A rare foray into religious comedy that falls midway between a Monty Python-style satire of the Roman Catholic Church and a sympathetic portrayal of its gutsy saints and martyrs.
Production History:
Produced by One Yellow Rabbit in association with Live Arts Theatre Alberta, 1988
Performed Big Secret Theatre, Calgary, 1988.
by Michael Green
Style: Drama
Number of acts: One act
Length: 90 mins
Total actors required: 4
Men: 4
Women: 0
Synopsis:
Naked West involves Zane, 'a hunter/writer'; Jim, 'a hunter/cowboy'; Emmett, 'a hunter's hunter'; and Virgil, 'a hunter, a mountain lion, and a beautiful woman.' It explores hunting in all its forms and implications, including a healthy parody of the Iron John movement.
Production History:
Produced by One Yellow Rabbit, 1992.
Performed Big Secret Theatre, Calgary, 1992.Naked West was published as part of Dreams of a Drunken Quaker, Naked West & Yowl: Two plays & A Rant; Collector Publishing, 1992.
by Michael Green
Style: Poetry performance
Number of acts: One act
Length: 20 mins
Total actors required: 1
Men: 1
Women: 0
Synopsis:
A Ginsberg-style 'rant' that consists of a witty and confrontational alphabetical performance list written in response to the 1992 ban of One Yellow Rabbit’s controversial Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp.
Production History:
Performed One Yellow Rabbit Banned in Alberta Benefit Cabaret, Calgary, 1992.
Yowl was published as part of Dreams of a Drunken Quaker, Naked West & Yowl: Two plays & A Rant; Collector Publishing, 1992.
Please Note: Synopsis information for Alien Bait and Lives of the Saints was taken, with the permission of Martin Morrow, from his book Wild Theatre: The History of One Yellow Rabbit; copyright 2003.