Devon Moore

Devon Moore in Flute Loops

She is in character at the start of the show
selling Steven Hawking bags and fringe magnets.

"Don't worry," she says to Bonnie.  "It will 
all makesense at the end of the show."

It did.

This Friday night Bonnie and I went to see Devon Moore in a one-night-only performance of her new show Flute Loops.

It is a comedy/play/musical and has great reviews. The show started at 7:30pm.

We stood outside of the theatre in the warm summer air. 

Groups of people were chatting, waiting for their seat number to be called. In that area, just as the sun was setting the world felt perfect.

Living in Salmon Arm, B.C. is just that.  The climate feels exactly like the climate in Victoria, B.C.

Every day, a perpetual holiday.

All tickets were numbered according to the date they were bought. Numbers 1 to 25 were to find their seats. Then 26 to 50. We were in the 80’s so our seats were pretty well on the back row.

The show is about a woman who is selling the merchandise at a concert where the band never shows up. We hear her ruminations which are hilarious and hard work. The show is beautifully crafted. The actor went to her kiosk before the show began and she was placing her merchandise out on the table. First Helen from our group, and then Bonnie went to buy some merchandise, per show. Bonnie wanted a signed poster. Devon Moore laughed and said she hadn’t thought of selling that. Oh, Bonnie did want the big poster on the sandwich board that was outside of the theatre. Not for sale, said Devon Moore.

Flute Loops
Devon Moore on stage, trying out the band's instruments

If she comes to your town in one of the fall fringe festivals, think about going.

After the show someone said that Devon Moore is performing in Edmonton at the Fringe Festival on Saturday.  Bonnie asked, "What is a fringe festival?"

After a detailed explanation she figured out that she has seen fringe festivals all of her life, as well as festivals of classical works.

In fact, she decided all of the classical pieces were once fringe works, and that is why she can't tell where the line between the classics and the fringes is drawn.

Arta