One of the most popular shows on the Canadian fringe festival circuit is making its way to Coquitlam this week.
Mike Delamont’s successful one-man production, God Is A Scottish Drag Queen, descends on the Evergreen Cultural Centre on Friday.
Co-created with Jacob Richmond, the comedy takes aim at high-profile figures such as Justin Bieber and even the pope. It also skewers organized religion (read: Scientology) and pop culture (Star Wars).
An original cast member of the cabaret Atomic Vaudeville, Delamont is a three-time Canadian Comedy Award nominee and is a regular on CBC’s The Debaters, SiriusXM’s Top Comic, the Halifax Comedy Festival and Just For Laughs.
Next month, he travels to Orlando for Christmas in Flori-DUH while in January, he plays in God on Vancouver Island.
Tickets at $37/$32/$22 are available by calling the Evergreen Cultural Centre box office at 604-927-6555 or visiting evergreenculturalcentre.ca.
Meanwhile, Coquitlam’s Dogwood Drama Club veers away from its traditional holiday-themed show this season to present a comedy/mystery next month.
G.B. Gilford’s Bull in a China Shop — a short story in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and later a success on the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents — tells the tale of a houseful of old ladies smitten by the handsome homicide detective Dennis O’Finn, a bachelor who lives across the street.
The seniors try to draw him into their home by arranging a murder of a brash young female reporter.
Directed by Sue Davey, the show runs Dec. 4 at 1:30 p.m., Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 8 at 1:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 at Dogwood Pavilion (1655 Winslow Ave., Coquitlam) or call Dale at 604-939-6172 or Sylvia at 604-936-2069.
