Medicine
When
Runs from
Tuesday January 14 2014
to Saturday January 25 2014
Approximate running time: 1 hour and 25 minutes
Venue
Production Notes
Back by popular demand! Fringe Festival legend TJ Dawe shares his funny, at times heartbreaking and enlightening experience with Gabor Maté, the Amazonian psychotropic plant medicine ayahuasca, group therapy and his path to introspection.
This popular show sold out its run at the Firehall last year, including a two week holdover, so be sure to get your tickets soon!
“Medicine is a deeply honest and generous—not to mention smart and entertaining—piece of theatre.” Colin Thomas, Georgia Straight
“a riveting account of his experience shot through with his customary intelligent, irony-loaded self-deprecation.” Vancouver Sun
“Insightful, informative, and very funny, Medicine achieves what all plays hope to: the feeling that you’ve met and interacted with someone new, and even that you’ve learned from them.” – Vancouver Vantage
“Dawe is maturing into an artist who knows how to find those universal truths” – FIVE STARS Winnipeg Free Press
SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY DR GABOR MATÉ
Shows on the following dates will feature special talkbacks with TJ Dawe & Gabor Maté: Jan 14 – 15 8PM | Jan 15 1PM | Jan 17 8PM | Sun Jan 19 2PM | Jan 21 8PM
ABOUT TJ Dawe
TJ Dawe is Vancouver-based award-winning writer, performer, and director who is Canada’s most pre-eminent monologuist. Current projects include: a stage adaptation of the blog PostSecret and directing the stage adaptation of Mark Leiren-Young’s Never Shoot a Stampede Queen. He co-wrote the play Toothpaste and Cigars, which has been made into the movie The F Word, starring Daniel Radcliffe. Check out TJ’s TED Talk, An Experiment in Collective Intelligence.
ABOUT Gabor Maté
A renowned speaker, and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. A documentary about Gabor Maté’s therapeutic use of ayahuasca aired on CBC’s The Nature of Things in November 2011.
A Firehall Arts Centre production. Written and performed by TJ Dawe.
This popular show sold out its run at the Firehall last year, including a two week holdover, so be sure to get your tickets soon!
“Medicine is a deeply honest and generous—not to mention smart and entertaining—piece of theatre.” Colin Thomas, Georgia Straight
“a riveting account of his experience shot through with his customary intelligent, irony-loaded self-deprecation.” Vancouver Sun
“Insightful, informative, and very funny, Medicine achieves what all plays hope to: the feeling that you’ve met and interacted with someone new, and even that you’ve learned from them.” – Vancouver Vantage
“Dawe is maturing into an artist who knows how to find those universal truths” – FIVE STARS Winnipeg Free Press
SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY DR GABOR MATÉ
Shows on the following dates will feature special talkbacks with TJ Dawe & Gabor Maté: Jan 14 – 15 8PM | Jan 15 1PM | Jan 17 8PM | Sun Jan 19 2PM | Jan 21 8PM
ABOUT TJ Dawe
TJ Dawe is Vancouver-based award-winning writer, performer, and director who is Canada’s most pre-eminent monologuist. Current projects include: a stage adaptation of the blog PostSecret and directing the stage adaptation of Mark Leiren-Young’s Never Shoot a Stampede Queen. He co-wrote the play Toothpaste and Cigars, which has been made into the movie The F Word, starring Daniel Radcliffe. Check out TJ’s TED Talk, An Experiment in Collective Intelligence.
ABOUT Gabor Maté
A renowned speaker, and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. A documentary about Gabor Maté’s therapeutic use of ayahuasca aired on CBC’s The Nature of Things in November 2011.
A Firehall Arts Centre production. Written and performed by TJ Dawe.