Canadian humourist, storyteller, musician and playwright Lorne Elliott is bringing The Upside Of The Downturn, his show of comedy and music theatre, to the Dekker Centre in North Battleford Monday, Oct. 21.
Elliott's concert performance is a selection of his current monologues and songs dealing with life experience.
According to a press release, creating new stage material about having to redefine priorities in view of life events is a welcome challenge to this writer and stage performer, who enjoys shaking the perceived wisdom of the world around him.
His one-man show concert presentation is described as delightfully foolish, witty and thought-provoking. Combining dry humour with musical parodies and skits. Elliott reveals himself as a shrewd observer of the human animal. Often self-deprecating, always silly and never profane, Elliott's funny is family friendly.
For the past 26 years Lorne Elliott has been touring and performing in concert in theatres and arts centres across Canada, the United States and Australia. Regularly featured on TV on such programs as The Just For Laughs Festival and Comedy Variety Specials in Canada and the United States.
For 11 seasons Madly Off In All Directions was Elliot's own CBC Radio comedy series that aired until the fall of 2006. Elliott is currently developing new projects.
Elliott is also a playwright and he received the Playwrights Guild of Canada 2012 Best New Musical Award for his play, Jamie Rowsell Lives.
His first novel, Beach Reading, was published in July 2013 and has been short listed as a finalist for the Hugh MacLennan Fiction Prize at the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards 2013.
His next novel is scheduled for publication in spring 2014.
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