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July 2, 2010

Good Timber Songs and Stories of the Western Logger

Good Timber: Songs and Stories of the Western Logger celebrates the golden age of logging in British Columbia - and the legendary Bulls of the woods, hookers, hi-riggers, fallers, whistle punks, and locie engineers from the time when loggers climbed trees.

Other Guys Theatre Company's artistic director, Ross Desprez, was inspired by a dog-eared copy of Rhymes of the Western Logger, a compilation of logging camp poetry by Robert E. Swanson. If you'd stumbled into a skid road smoke shop or camp commissary during the 1940's or 50's you would have seen well-thumbed copies of Swanson's chapbooks sticking up among the Reader's Digests. Swanson achieved legendary status among the BC coast loggers, doing for them what Robert Service did for the gold miners of the Klondike. Poems like The Cat Skinner's Prayer, The Death of Rough House Pete, and BC Hiball lament the hazards of the bush.

Desprez and creative partner Tobin Stokes have gathered a stellar cast for this entertaining romp through the past. Set against a multi-media backdrop of rarely-seen images from the BC Archives, John Gogo, Mark Hellman, Kelt and Colleen Eccleston, Sarah Donald and Desprez act, sing, and play everything from guitar and fiddle to axe and handsaw. Desprez, Stokes and the ensemble have written original music that ranges from Celtic and country to folk and blues, to accompany the loggers' poetry.

For more information check out their website www.otherguystheatre.ca