The Penelopiad

Written by Margaret Atwood

Starring Megan Follows

with Maev Beaty, Christine Brubaker, Raven Dauda, Sarah Dodd, Monica Dottor, Kelli Fox, Cara Gee, Patricia Hamilton, Tara Rosling, Pamela Sinha, Sophia Walker and Bahia Watson

Megan Follows// Penelope Follows has guest starred on some of television’s most popular series. Upcoming she will soon be seen in a guest star appearance for the hit series House. Follows’ resume has a list of numerous big screen credits including Alan King’s powerful feature, Termini Station, which earned her a Genie nomination for Best Actress and Stephen King’s Silver Bullet, with Gary Busey. As Follows began to divide her time between L.A. and Toronto, she performed lead roles in the Oscar-winning short film Boys And Girls, and the mini-series Hockey Night, which earned her a 1985 ACTRA Award nomination. While filming Hockey Night, Follows landed the role of “Anne”, which earned her a 1987 Gemini for her performance in Anne Of Green Gables and a 1988 Gemini for Anne Of Avonlea. 
She also has a long history in theatre and has worked with prestigious companies such as the Stratford Festival (Romeo and Juliet, Amadeus) and The National Arts Centre in Ottawa. In 2008, Megan was nominated for two Dora Mavor Moore Best Actress Awards for her performances as Masha in Three Sisters and Marlene in Soulpepper’s award-winning presentation of Top Girls.


Maev Beaty// Laertes/Maid Maev’s coming out party was Canadian Stage’s ‘08 season where she played Helena in Midsummer Night’s Dream and premiered in Judith Thompson’s Palace of the End.  Shakespeare’s Titania and Kate followed and she has since performed in 10 Canadian Premieres, gathering 3 Dora nominations, for performance in Dance of the Red Skirts (Theatre Columbus), and for performance and writing of Montparnasse, which she co created with Erin Shields and Andrea Donaldson. She has been a proud ensemble member of huge theatre endeavours such at TheatreFront’s The Mill series and Volcano Theatre’s Another Africa (Luminato/Canadian Stage), and is Co-Artistic Director of Sheep No Wool Theatre Company and an Artistic Associate of Groundwater Productions. www.maevbeaty.com




Christine Brubaker// Icaruis/Maid Award-winning actor, director and musician, Christine has performed nationally and internationally with Fear of Flight (Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland) and The Danish Play (Nightwood Theatre). Favourite credits: The Vaudevilles of Chekov (NAC), A Comedy of Errors (Canstage), The Trials of John Demjanjuk (Theatre Asylum), and The Babysitter by Eric Woolfe (Dora Award Best Performance). As a composer, she’s worked for YPT, Theatre Asylum and The Shaw Festival. She directed Eldritch Theatre’s Madhouse Variations and Doc Wuthergloom’s Haunted Medicine Show and in 2012 will direct Much Ado About Nothing (Nightwood, Lawyer Show). She is a 1994 Graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada and a regular Instructor at Humber College AFTV Program, YPT and Armstrong Acting Studios, Voice Artist.



Raven Dauda// Antinous/Maid Raven Dauda was most recently seen in Tout Comme Elle (Necessary Angel/Luminato) and Intimate Apparel (Obsidian Theatre Company/The Citadel Theatre). Other stage and television credits include Miss Julie: Freedom Summer (The Vancouver Playhouse/Canadian Stage, Dora Award Recipient), Doubt: A Parable (Canadian Stage, Dora Award Nominee), Wild Dogs (Nightwood Theatre in association with The Canadian Stage Theatre Company), The Firm (NBC), Saving Hope (Global), The Bridge (CTV/CBS) and Crash & Burn (Showcase), First Hand Woman (Montreal Fringe Festival), Twilight Café (Theatre Archipelago), and Da Kink In My Hair (Mirvish Productions). Raven is thoroughly thrilled and honored to be a part of this production, and thanks God, her family and friends for all of their love, laughter, guidance and support!



Sarah Dodd// Anticleia/Maid Sarah received a Dora Award for her work in Marion Bridge and is a graduate of George Brown Theatre School. She was most recently seen in The New Electric Ballroom (MacKenzie Ro Theatre) and will be performing in The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs (Tarragon Theatre). Other theatre credits include The Age of Arousal (Nightwood), Communion, The Fall and Humble Boy (Tarragon Theatre); A Whistle In the Dark and Marion Bridge (Company Theatre); Them and Us(Theatre Passe Muraille); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Stage); The Importance of Being Earnest (Stratford Festival); 7 Seasons at the Stratford Festival.




Monica Dottor// Oracle/Maid (Choreographer) Monica is an actor and choreographer and has been nominated for a Dora* in both fields. She most recently finished shooting her 1st lead in a feature film, The Shape of Rex and choreographed/created/directed Malaria Lullaby (Summerworks). Acting credits include Picture Day (Kate Melville Films), The Trolley Car & In Full Light (Summerworks), The Middle Place, A Midsummer Night’s Dream & The Overcoat* (Canadian Stage), Scratch* (Dora nomination) & Featuring Loretta (Factory), The Red Queen Effect (7th Stage), Chekhov’s Shorts & Chekhov’s Heartache (Theatre Smith-Gilmour), Machina Nuptialis (Corpus Dance), Rookie Blue (Global/ABC), The Russian Play (Choreography*-Dora Nomination- Factory), The Crossing Guard (PBP). Choreography credits include Malaria Lullaby (Company Blonde-Summerworks), The Russian Play (Factory-Dora Nomination), 2010 Dora Mavor Moore Awards show, The Middle Place (Canadian Stage/Belfry/GCTC), The Red Queen Effect (7th Stage), The Review (Summerworks), The Canada Dance Festival, Dusk Dances, Nuit Blanche (Ruby Venus in Trinity Bellwoods Park - Company Blonde Dance Projects). Monica is co-Artistic Director of Company Blonde Dance Projects www.companyblonde.com and a singer with The Elastocitizens www.elastocitizens.com

Kelli Fox// Odysseus/Maid One of Canada’s most prominent theatrical actresses, Kelli Fox has played some of the most coveted roles in English theatre. At Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada she starred in The Misanthrope, The Three Sisters, The Trespassers, Trojan Women and Palmer Park. In her ten years at the Shaw Festival Kelli starred in many productions including The Age of Arousal, The Women, The Crucible, Rutherford and Son, Waiting for the Parade, Plough and the Stars, Three Sisters, Candida (in the title role), Playboy of the Western World, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Joy and Major Barbara (in the title role).  Her tour de force performance as Virginia Woolf in a Room of One’s Own garnered Kelli an Ottawa Critic’s Circle Award for Outstanding Lead Actress.  Recent favourites include August: Osage County at Citadel Theatre, Blithe Spirit (Segal Centre), Top Girls (Soulpepper Theatre Company), Scorched (Tarragon Theatre), Hamlet (in the title role, Geva Theatre, Rochester, NY), Much Ado About Nothing (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre) and the Canadian premiere of Frozen (Citadel Theatre). Recent film and television includes Flashpoint (CTV/AVC), When love is not enough (CBS) and Daniel’s Daughter (Hallmark Channel). On the rare occasion when Kelli is not working she feeds her passion for travel.  Kelli makes her home in Stratford, Ontario.

Cara Gee// Melantho/Maid Most recently, Cara has performed in The Rez Sisters (Factory) and The Jones Boy (surface/underground).  Cara is an ensemble member of an independent company called Birdtown and Swanville.  Credits with Birdtown and Swanville: The Physical Ramifications of Attempted Global Domination (Summerworks), 36 Little Plays About Hopeless Girls (Fringe), Dead Wrestlers (Rhubarb) and Family Story.  Other theatre credits include: Stitch (Dependent Theatre Projects, Summerworks—Spotlight Award), Spirit Horse (Roseneath Theatre), Flowers (Rose City Theatre Festival), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Resurgence), and Tout Comme Elle (Necessary Angel).  Upcoming, she will be in The Real World (Tarragon). Cara has a BFA in Acting from the University of Windsor.




Patricia Hamilton// Eurycleia/Maid Patricia has been acting for more than 50 years. As well as 13 seasons at the Shaw Festival she has been seen across Canada from Vancouver to Stratford to Halifax. In Toronto she has appeared at Tarragon, Factory, Passe Muraille, Necessary Angel and Canadian Stage among others. She is also a director, teacher and producer (having been one of the founders of Masterclass theatre). To TV viewers she is known as Rachel Lynde in the Road to Avonlea series. She was most recently seen in Nurse Guinness in Heartbreak House (Shaw Festival).





Tara Rosling// Naiad/Maid Tara is thrilled to be making her Nightwood Theatre debut. Her theatre Credits include: If We Were Birds (Dora Award), Hush,Perfect Pie (Tarragon Theatre), St. Joan, The Heiress, The Magic Fire, Pygmalion, Nothing Sacred, The Three Sisters (Shaw Festival), Festen (Company Theatre), The Glass Menagerie (TNW), Habeas Corpus, The Lonesome West (CanStage), The Miracle Worker (ATF), Twelfth Night, Tempest Tost (Stratford Festival), The Two Noble Kinsmen (Theatre in the Rough), See Bob Run (Factory Theatre - Dora Nomination). Film & T.V. credits include: XIII, Murdoch Mysteries, The Listener, Crash & Burn, The Uncles, The Five Senses, The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3. She was most recently seen in When The Rain Stops Falling and The President (Shaw Festival), and will be starring in Misalliance and Helen’s Necklace (Shaw Festival) Tara is also a certified Yoga Instructor & proud mother to her beautiful daughter Eliana Rose. Tara & her beloved family reside in NOTL - on t’other side o’ the lake.


Pamela Sinha// Helen/Maid Pamela Sinha received a Dora Nomination for her work as Rekha in Brothel #9. She is part of Cahoots Theatre Playwrights Unit for 2011/12, and in April 2012 she will premiere her solo play CRASH as part of Theatre Passe Muraille’s winter season. She was recently seen in The Rez Sisters (Factory Theatre). Selected theatre credits include: Brothel #9 (Factory Theatre), Tout Comme Elle (Necessary Angel), Possible Worlds (Theatre Passe Muraille). Selected Film and Television: series leads on The Newsroom and Traders, ER (recurring), guest starring roles on Huff, Crossing Jordan, Rick Mercer Report; films include Breakaway, HBO’s Live from Baghdad, and Jinnah on Crime. Pamela’s short story Hiding was published in the best selling anthology Dropped Threads Vol.2 (Random House Canada), edited by Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson. She is currently at work on her second play, Happy Place.


Sophia Walker// Menelaus/Maid Sophia is a successful classical actor who has received awards from The Stratford Shakespeare Festival. She most recently was seen in Toronto in the Dora winning production Ruined (Obsidian Theatre Co-production with Nightwood). Other acting credits include Much Ado About Nothing (Canadian Stage), Words Written on Air (Nightwood), Orchids (Marquis Entertainment/Roundhouse Theatre), Rookie Blue (Global/ABC), The Tempest (Melbar Entertainment). The last five years Sophia has been a company member for The Stratford Shakespeare Festival playing leads in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet just to name a few. She feels so blessed to be a part of such a power house company.




Bahia Watson// Telemachus/Maid Bahia is a graduate of Nightwood Theatre’s Write from the Hip program. She was most recently seen as Tracey in DISS (Mixed Company *Dora Nominated Performance), Beneatha Younger in A Raisin In The Sun (Soulpepper), and in pomme is french for apple (co-writer and performer). Her one-woman show, in search of shanequa jenkins, is currently in development.  Bahia loves to tell stories through plays, poetry, music, cooked food and short stories. She is also a member of arts collective, 88 Days of Fortune. www.bahiawatson.com

       

 

The Penelopiad

Directed by Kelly Thornton
Designed by Denyse Karn
Lighting Designed by Kim Purtell
Original Music, Sound Design and Musical Direction by Suba Sankaran
Choreography by Monica Dottor
Stage Managed by Marinda de Beer
Production Manager, Sandra Henderson
Assistant Direction by Audrey Dwyer
Apprentice Stage Managed by Ashley Westlake
Assistant Design by Erin McCleary
Intern Design by Allie Marshall

Kelly Thornton// Director Kelly has been the Artistic Director of Nightwood Theatre since 2001. Directing Credits for Nightwood include Between the Sheets (The New Groundswell Festival), The List, That Face, Wild Dogs (all in association with Canadian Stage), The Danish Play (Toronto 2002 & 2007, Aveny-Teatret, Copenhagen, Magnetic North Theatre Festival & National Arts Centre), Bear With Me (Toronto, Grand Theatre & Magnetic North Theatre Festival), Mathilde, China Doll and Finding Regina (Globe Theatre/Theatre Passe Muraille). Other selected credits include The Comedy of Errors (Canadian Stage’s Dream in High Park); This Hotel (Theatre Passe Muraille/Planet 88 - Dora Nomination for Outstanding Direction); So Many Doors (Magnetic North Theatre Festival, Sour Brides/Yukon Arts Centre); Peep Show (Buddies in Bad Times); The Dumb Waiter (SummerWorks/Sometimes Y). Kelly has received the Pauline McGibbon Award for her outstanding work as a Director and was recognized for her commitment to training and mentorship of young women in the performing arts by being named a YWCA Woman of Distinction (Arts & Letters). In 2010 she was named the Associate Director of the National Theatre School of Canada’s Directing Program. Up next Kelly will be directing The Happy Woman at The Berkeley Street Theatre.


Denyse Karn// Designer Denyse is the Producer/General Manager of Nightwood Theatre. Her design credits for Nightwood include The List; The Lawyer Show 2011: As You Like It; The Lawyer Show 2010: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Goodnight Desdemona, Goodmorning Juliet (Premier Production). Other recent credits include The Winter’s Tale (Canadian Stage 2011 Dream in High Park); The Oracle Of Gros Morne (Gros Morne Theatre Festival); Top Girls (Manitoba Theatre Centre). Denyse has also worked with Eastern Front Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, The Charlottetown Festival,  Atlantic Theatre Festival, Ship’s Company Theatre, Mulgrave Road Theatre, Festival Antigonish, Two Planks and A Passion Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Canadian Stage Company and Cahoots Theatre Projects to name a few. Denyse Karn has been working in the Canadian theatre for over 25 years as a producer and designer. She is a graduate of the Ryerson Theatre School and has her BFA from NSCAD University. She is a recipient of a Dora Mavor Moore Award, five Theatre Nova Scotia Merritt Awards for various Outstanding Designs and was nominated for the Siminovitch Award in Theatre in 2006.  Up next Denyse will be Designer for The Happy Woman at The Berkeley Street Theatre.


Kim Purtell// Lighting Designer Kimberley has designed for the Canadian Stage Company, Stratford Festival, World Stage, Luminato Festival, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Theatre Calgary, Vancouver Playhouse, Citadel Theatre, Young Peopleʼs Theatre, Soulpepper, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Theatre Centre, Factory Theatre, Necessary Angel, Studio 180, Queen of Puddings, Tapestry New Opera, The Banff Centre, da da kamera, Dancemakers, Kaeja dʼDance and many others. Selected credits include The List, That Face, Wild Dogs, Age of Arousal, Crave (all with Nightwood Theatre); Seussical (YPT); The Childrenʼs Republic (Tarragon); The Normal Heart (Studio 180); The Barber of Seville (Opera Hamilton); The Maids (Buddies in Bad Times); His Greatness (IART); The Little Years (Stratford Shakespeare Festival). Upcoming for Kimberley will be Caroline or Change (Acting Up Stage), The Happy Woman (Nightwood), Was Spring (Tarragon), Clybourne Park (Studio 180), Youʼre a Good Man Charlie Brown (Stratford), Beckett: Feck It (Queen of Puddings), La Calisto (Royal Conservatory) and Adaptation Project (Dancemakers). Kimberly is a recipient of the Pauline McGibbon Award and has been nominated for 12 Dora Awards, winning twice.


Suba Sankaran// Composer of Original Music, Sound Design and Musical Director Dora award-winning, twice Juno nominated Suba Sankaran is a world/fusion vocalist who has effortlessly combined musical worlds, performing across North America, Europe, UK and Asia with Autorickshaw, Trichy Sankaran, FreePlay Duo (with Dylan Bell) and Retrocity (80s a cappella revue), to name a few. Performance highlights include performing for Peter Gabriel, Nelson Mandela and Bishop Tutu. Suba is in demand as a choral director, arranger, educator and composer/producer for theatre, film, radio and dance. Highlights include collaborations with Deepa Mehta and the CBC. Suba is currently artist-in-residence at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts and co-chair of the Juno world music committee.




Monica Dottor// Choreographer Monica is an actor and choreographer and has been nominated for a Dora* in both fields. She most recently finished shooting her 1st lead in a feature film, The Shape of Rex and choreographed/created/directed Malaria Lullaby (Summerworks). Acting credits include Picture Day (Kate Melville Films), The Trolley Car & In Full Light (Summerworks), The Middle Place, A Midsummer Night’s Dream & The Overcoat* (Canadian Stage), Scratch* (Dora nomination) & Featuring Loretta (Factory), The Red Queen Effect (7th Stage), Chekhov’s Shorts & Chekhov’s Heartache (Theatre Smith-Gilmour), Machina Nuptialis (Corpus Dance), Rookie Blue (Global/ABC), The Russian Play (Choreography*-Dora Nomination- Factory), The Crossing Guard (PBP). Choreography credits include Malaria Lullaby (Company Blonde-Summerworks), The Russian Play (Factory-Dora Nomination), 2010 Dora Mavor Moore Awards show, The Middle Place (Canadian Stage/Belfry/GCTC), The Red Queen Effect (7th Stage), The Review (Summerworks), The Canada Dance Festival, Dusk Dances, Nuit Blanche (Ruby Venus in Trinity Bellwoods Park - Company Blonde Dance Projects). Monica is co-Artistic Director of Company Blonde Dance Projects www.companyblonde.com and a singer with The Elastocitizens www.elastocitizens.com


Marinda de Beer// Stage Manager Selected credits include: For Toronto Masque: Crazy to Kill,  For Soulpepper: Billy Bishop Goes to War, Our Town, Time of Your Life, Doc, Glengarry Glenn Ross,  Faith Healer,  for the Tarragon Theatre: The Misanthrope, for the Factory Theatre: The Madonna Painter, for Canadian Stage: The Palace of the End, seven seasons of the Dream in High Park (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet), The Glass Menagerie,  for Crow’s : I, Claudia (Vancouver, Ottawa, London, Edmonton tours) for George Brown: Love’s Labours Lost, School for Scandal; OTHER:  Shakuntala,  The Amourous Servant (Plaeides Theatre), Dido and Aeneas and Acteon (Opera Atelier).  She enjoyed 2 seasons at the Shaw Festival, assistant stage managing Three Sisters, The Plough and the Stars, The Old Ladies and The Old Lady Shows Her Medals. Marinda is also a birth and post-partum doula.


Sandra Henderson// Production Manager Sandra is a Toronto-based theatre practitioner who engages with performance in a number of capacities. This season, she is production managing for Nightwood Theatre and production & tour managing for Necessary Angel. Her credits include Production Manager—This Is What Happens Next (Necessary Angel at the Citadel Theatre, Edmonton); Production Manager & Lighting Designer – New Groundswell Festival (2011); Production Manager & Lighting Designer - Femcab (2011); Lighting Designer - Groundswell Festival (2011); Apprentice Lighting Designer - The List (2010), Stage Management - Peter and the Wolf (Theatre Rusticle, 2011); Lighting Designer - Songs for a New World (Angelwalk Theatre, 2011); Production and Tour Manager - Tono and Raven Stole the Sun (Red Sky Performance, 2008-2010).  Upcoming Sandra will be working on Divisadero (Necessary Angel) and The Happy Woman (Nightwood Theatre). Sandra holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto in theatre and political science.


Audrey Dwyer// Assistant Director Audrey has been working in theatre in Toronto for the past ten years as an actor, director and a dramaturge. She has performed in theatres across Canada and throughout the United States. Her recent acting credits include The Overwhelming (Studio 180), The Tempest (Canadian Stage’s Dream in High Park), Black Medea (Obsidian Theatre), Medea (Mirvish/MTC) and she was also a member of the Second City Touring Company. Her Television and Film Credits include Da Kink in My Hair, The Ron James Show, Man of the Year and Atom Egoyan’s Where the Truth Lies. Her Nightwood credits include Direction - The Aftermath (Workshop Production for the New Groundswell Festival), Associate Artistic Director 2008-2009, Assistant Direction - Age of Arousal, Assistant Director of Write from the Hip. Most recently Audrey directed The Apology (Rabiayshna Productions- Dora Nomination for Outstanding Direction) and upcoming she will be acting in Clybourne Park (Studio 180). Audrey is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.


Ashley Westlake// Apprentice Stage Manager Ashley’s Nightwood credits include Stage Manager: Between The Sheets – Groundswell Festival (2011), The Lawyer Show – As You Like It (2011). Apprentice Stage Manager: The List (2010), That Face (2009, in association with Canadian Stage). Former Nightwood Producing Intern (2009). Other selected credits include Stage Manager: The Jones Boy (surface/underground); Stage Manager: The Little One (Company Theatre Crisis, SummerWorks 2011); Horse (Theatre Hetaerae, Toronto Fringe Festival 2011). Apprentice Stage Manager: The Middle Place (Project Humanity, Canadian Stage 2011). Up next for Ashley will be Apprentice Stage Manager: The Happy Woman (Nightwood). Stage Manager: The Lawyer Show 2012: Much Ado About Nothing (Nightwood). Production Manager: The Washing Machine (Red Betty Theatre, 2012 Next Stage Theatre Festival).


Erin McCleary// Assistant Designer Erin is rather new to the world of professional production, however, in less than a year she has managed to work on a number of pieces in both theatre and film. As an Honours graduate of Dalhousie University’s Costume Studies and Theatre program, Erin’s niche is wardrobe. Recent opportunities, however, have provoked in her an interest in over all production design. She is very excited to be working under Denyse Karn, and on such a gruesomely provocative piece. Selected credits include, Costume Assistant—As You Like It, 2011 Lawyer Show (Nightwood Theatre); Wardrobe—Rough House, Spin the Barrel and Be Mad (CFC Short Films); Costume Designer—Daughter of the Dust (a country musical by Created Independently); Costume Designer—Love, Sam (an O.A.C funded short film by Poplar Street Productions). Up next for Erin will be assistant designer to Denyse Karn on The Happy Woman.


Allie Marshall// Intern Designer Allie recently enjoyed a season at the Blyth Festival as the Wardrobe Assistant and has worked for such companies as Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Factory Theatre, and Workman Arts. Selected credits include The List, The Lawyer Show 2010: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (both with Nightwood Theatre); The Rez Sisters (Assistant Costume Designer and Head of Wardrobe, Factory Theatre); The Phyisical Ramifications of Attempted Global Domination, Family Story, Dead Wrestlers (Birdtown and Swanville); Theory (Public Radio and Camera Assembly); The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Two Wolves); Tailor of Gloucester (Solar Stage). Up next Allie will be part of the Rhubarb Festival with Birdtown and Swanville. She is a graduate of Humber College’s Theatre Production program.

 

       

 

The Penelopiad

4 out of 4 stars  “The Penelopiad is stunning theatre”
- The Toronto Star
3 ½ out of 4 stars “…an absolute triumph”
- The Globe and Mail
4 out of 4 stars “The Penelopiad makes history”
- Toronto Sun
4 N’s “This is a superb show – smart, beautiful and superbly executed.”
- Now Magazine
“…vibrant, moving darkly, explosively funny.”
- National Post
8 out of 10 roses “a moving cri de coeur…”
- The Grid
“Who needs men in a performance when the women play them so expertly?”
- The Scene in TO
“Director Kelly Thornton turns the serious material into delicious fare that stimulates everyone emotionally and intellectually.”
- fab magazine
“The aesthetics of The Penelopiad are stunning…”
- My Entertainment World
5 out of 5 stars “Don’t miss Nightwood Theatre’s inspiring production.”
- Theatromania
“Follows’ performs remarkably and is often times very witty.”
- zeeBigBang