Review in Gulf Islands Driftwood: Solo Trois-Rivières Tales Show Delivers Full Package. Humour, politics, and rhyme meet in Nedjo Rogers Show.

Gulf Islands Driftwood, p. 12, Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Solo Trois-Rivieres Tales Show Delivers Full Package

Humour, politics and rhyme meet in Nedjo Rogers show

By Elizabeth Nolan, Driftwood Staff

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Nedjo Rogers, Salt Spring’s newest poet in residence, has created a memorable method of introducing himself to the community in staging his acclaimed Fringe piece The Trois-Riviéres Tales.

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Rogers is the kind of storyteller who manages to pull all the emotional cords necessary for a great evening of entertainment: laughter, compassion, outrage and sorrow are all invoked at times.

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Just as The Canterbury Tales criticized the society of its time, especially the hypocritical practices of the church, Rogers’ portrayal of the three main characters serves as a humorous wrapper for more serious fare. The tales that each of them offers is at face value an entertainment–but at its core, a deliberation on issues of social justice and human rights.

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Rogers also has the mark of the true storyteller in that he fully inhabits each character, rapidly moving with ease from teenage girl to red-neck driver to the university students who take themselves with such comic seriousness.

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