A reviewer from The Globe and Mail, Canada's national paper, finally came to the very last performance of The Sunlight Zone in Toronto!  It's like pulling teeth to get your work reviewed if you're not famous!  Fortunately she loved it and hopefully a review will come out soon.  All in all, we had a blast in Toronto and had just enough really good houses to make it all worth it.  The show was continually well received, and we got a great little demo video out of it.  After eleven shows we were ready to move on to London, Ontario.

View The Sunlight Zone demo video, filmed and edited by Fabio Flecha, by clicking here.

The theater in London used to be an IMax, quite different from The Annex in Toronto, and it seats about 600!  We got great press in the local paper and TV, and all four shows were really well attended.  There were these sheets of glittery mylar on both sides of the stage that we had to cover up with giant white tarps so as not to be confused with "The Sunlight Zone Does Vegas," and Jukka and Terry risked their lives suspended over the stage in harnesses securing the ropes and getting some lights out of the way.  Later Jukka realized he does, indeed, regularly risk his life for the sake of art!

It was a totally spacious experience doing the piece in that theater as opposed to The Annex, where at times we got a little bit too expansive.  (At one point someone's rope had knocked down one of the 30 foot sheets of paper on the back wall.)  We did Q & A's after each of the shows in London and people were very curious and asked great questions.  One little girl asked if Jukka was famous.  Well, he is to us, that's for sure!  When we did the show for local schools on Thursday, he was quite popular among the teenage girls in the audience and received a "friend request" from a girl who found him on Facebook that evening.  Hopefully someday soon we'll all be very, very famous!

Between Toronto, London and Montreal we ate super well.  Besides sampling about ten different sushi restaurants, we ate really good Ethiopian, Korean, Indian, Portuguese, Polish, and Thai, just to name a few, and were fed like royalty at Kevin's parents house.  Everyone (who's not vegetarian) must try their grilled steak with onions and blue cheese!  Oh, and the best bagels in the world in Montreal!  24/7, fresh out of the oven.  Anyway, any weight we may have lost onstage was amply returned.

As payoff for all our hard work (and play!) we spent a couple of days in Montreal before coming home.  I am in love with that city!  I really hope we can go back and do the show there.  It was beautiful and sunny while we were there, and we were the first to rent the new Bixy bikes they had just installed on sidewalks all over the city.  We felt pretty famous riding them around as people would point and smile and ask us how they were.  They were great!  And only $5 for 24 hours.  We rode to the top of Mount Royal as the sun was setting.

Here's a picture of Kevin standing in front of the restaurant where he used to work when he was at the National Circus School.  You've come a long way baby!

Greetings from Toronto!  We arrived last week and have been staying with Kevin's brother Brian at his place next to High Park.  We have sort of taken over the house and though there is only one bathroom, we have been managing quite well.  Brian, our extremely generous host, had a barbecue at the house yesterday after our matinee performance. It's been so cool meeting more of Kevin's friends and family.

We have spent most of our time inside The Annex Theater, a very cool old building with really high ceilings. Adapting the piece to this space was a bit tricky as it's much smaller than the Vets Hall where we opened a few weeks ago in Santa Cruz.  The audience gets very close to the action here and we can get quite a bit higher on the ropes.  With the new lighting and haze machine, the whole thing feels a bit more dense.  We had a nice full house for the opening Saturday and a warm reception from the audience.   We are now working hard to promote the show.  Hopefully over the next two weeks word will spread!  We have shows Wednesday through Sunday this week and next, then we head to London for shorter run up there.

Here we are on break at a pub around the corner from the theater.  Of course Fabio isn't in it because he's taking the picture, so I included a picture of him, too, setting up the projector at the house so we could watch a movie.  Today was our first day off and it was rainy and stormy all day.  I took a walk in the park with Theresa and it's really beautiful and huge, but I'm still looking forward to getting out and seeing more of the city. 

Fabio has been working on a promo video which we'll put online sometime soon.  His videos of water are so beautiful and bring such breadth to this piece.  Go to www.thesunlightzone.com for info and more photos of the show.