Ah, the magical world of community theatre. Where dreams are big, budgets are small, and the drama is both on and off the stage! But fear not, dear audience, for amidst the chaos and sequined costumes lies a beacon of recognition and celebration - the CAT AWARDS SHOW! It’s been 20 years since the [...]
Holy jingle bells it’s Jesus’ birthday again and Santa has come bearing gifts. What do you get the Son of a God who has everything? Heck, he’s already had Frankincense, myrrh, and a drum solo. WRITTEN BY Jennifer MacLean JESUS Michael Dean Dargie SANTA Jennifer MacLean Cinematography by Colleen MacLean Edited By Michael Dean [...]
Aah, the Halloween Classics. Grainy discoloured film, lakeside camps, nighttime terror. The perfect, time-honoured tradi... wait. Do the villains plan this out on purpose? Do they use a shopping list? WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Jennifer MacLean KILLER 1 Michael Dean Dargie KILLER 2 Jennifer MacLean CAMP COUNSELLOR 1 Zachary Friesen CAMP COUNSELLOR 2 Nolan [...]
Auditions are generally stressful at the best of times, but what if auditions are... not... quite what you'd expect... for anyone?!? Please enjoy Act 1, 2 and 3 of Dropbear & Panda's "Audition Hell: Hamlet Edition"; filmed for and screened at the 2022 CAT Awards (Calgary's Community Theatre Awards.) Thank you to all involved, [...]
Historical Accuracy Is Our Thing It's Queen Victoria's birthday and many of her friends from across the land have brought her gifts to show their admiration. Will she be amused? It's a history lesson the only way Dropbear & Panda can tell it... historically (in)accurate! "Dropbear and Panda have done it [...]
Once the Christmas Tree is decorated, it's up to the cat of the house to ... well ... finish it. Oh Tannenbaum? More like, Oh Tannen-BOMB, amirite? Please enjoy the latest annual DB&P holiday special. Merry Ho!Ho! from us to you. Special thanks to Emre Cords and Paul McCart for the dope music and [...]
It's Halloween 2021 and you know what that means - Dropbear & Panda are hiding out at home because it's an absolute horror-show outside. It's been one heck of a year, and it doesn't need to be Halloween to be terrifying out there. Special thanks to everyone who stepped up and added their voice [...]
Click-bait UFOs, Cruella, and saving our own worldIt’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…. Better yet, we’ll just tell you that we don’t know about UFOs, but if you click here we’ll explain to you what we don’t know even though we don’t know enough to know how to tell you what we do or [...]
Baelin’s Route, UFOs, Cicadas, and Wildlife Conservation When UFOs show up and barely make it on the radar (no pun intended) that’s definitely… something to think about. Over some good gin and a new sock jingle, of course! We talk drones and UFOs, review Viva la Dirt League’s "Baelin’s Route", and muse over BroodX [...]
Skipping work in Italy, two polarizing movie reviews, and shopping for those with covid. We've got two reviews today - and we’re not angry with one, per se… just disappointed. Which (if we take any cue from our parents) is worse than being mad. Much, much worse. A man from Italy finally gets busted [...]
