Banana Musik
The Mann Art Gallery is delighted to present Banana Musik, a play by Regina-based theatre artist Kris Alvarez and family.
In this memory play about aging, reciprocity and care, 50-year-old “immigrant kid” Kris Alvarez gives you a tour of her childhood home – the sights, sounds, smells – to meet her parents, while she takes inventory of ALL their stuff, trying to get to know them better in
real time. BANANA MUSIK. A memory play about aging, reciprocity, care – a love letter to “adult-(immigrant) kids paying back parents who gave up everything.”
☛ Friday May 30th at the Mann Art Gallery (142 12th Street West)
☛ Doors: 7:00 PM; play begins at 7:30 PM
☛ Admission: by donation (suggested $10 - $20). No one turned away for lack of funds.
☛ Age: 10+
☛ Running time: 45 minutes plus optional 20min post-show community conversations with snacks
Banana Musik is presented in partnership with the Prince Albert Arts Board and with support from the City of Prince Albert’s Municipal Cultural Action Plan.
About Kris
Treaty 4 Filipina artist Kris Alvarez is lucky to make relationships while making art with great people from Curtain Razors, Fadadance, Artesian, Globe Theatre, Common Weal, Dunlop Art Gallery, So Glad, and Persephone.
Kris performs: Bad Blood, Carmen Angel – Curtain Razors, Joey Tremblay / Making Spirits Bright– Globe, Jennifer Brewin / Bright Half Life – Perspehone, KP Smith.
She makes: Golden Potluck, Burnt Sienna, Acknowledging. And Kris is humbled by work like Reasonable Doubt – Joel Bernbaum, Yvette Nolan, Lancelot Knight.
She enjoys working in film (Donkeyhead, Agam Darshi), parks (Other Side of the River, Wâhkôhtowin, Sum Theatre), and TV (ZARQA, CBC Gem).
Summer 2023, Kris joined amazing artists to collaborate (Homebuddies – So Glad, It’s Not a Box) and present at the 2023 Prague Quadrennial. And Burnt Sienna Boulevard - her reimagined variety show for younger audiences- was invited back to the Regina Folk Fest. In 2024, Kris was the playwright for Sum Theatre’s 2024 Theatre in the Park.
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