Totem Figures - Riel Hahn
Totem Figures - Riel Hahn
Audio Interview with Riel Hahn
Riel Hahn is a Vancouver based writer and performer. In her interview she talks about Dorothy Parker, Kurt Vonnegut, Steve Martin, her grandparents, her aunt and the Caravan Farm Theatre.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Watch Riel doing stand-up right here, in that box to the right.
Read Riel’s blog
Go to Riel’s myspace site
Riel’s part of an sketch/improv troupe - the Strech Mouth’d Rascalls
Take a look at some of Riel’s photography
Riel read Dorothy Parker’s poem Resume in the interview. This is Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom.
The Portable Dorothy Parker is a comprehensive anthology of her poems and prose.
If you type Steve Martin’s name into youtube, you’re going to find a lot. This balloon animals routine is an arbitrary place to start.
For a bio and discography on Steve Martin, go to his entry at allmusic.com. You can order his albums there too.
Steve also penned an excellently readable memoir entitled
Kurt Vonnegut wrote many, many books. In the interview Riel mentioned Galapagos and A Man Without a Country. Other favourites of hers include Slaughterhouse Five and Hocus Pocus .
Check out this interview with Vonnegut - one of the last he ever gave. It’s intercut with an overview of his life and career.
The Caravan Farm Theatre is a not-for-profit professional outdoor theatre company based on eighty acres of farmland outside of Armstrong, BC. They run shows in the summer and winter.