Amor de Cosmos: A Delusional Musical

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Written by Richard Kelly Kemick, Starring Cody Porter

One-man, Historic, Musical Theatre.

All ages

Saturday, October 21, 2023, 7PM 

Just wait until you feast your eyes and ears on this Toronto Fringe Masterpiece. This musical comedy, written in iambic pentameter, is a whirlwind of tantalising language and historical fact telling us of the life of Amor De Cosmos. Kemick will introduce to you in, yes, I said it, iambic pentameter: Amor De Cosmos (born William Alexander Smith), second Premier of BC and first member of Parliament. Watch director and star, Cody Porter, hurl through different roles before your eyes in a two-act performance accompanied by pianist and composer Lindsay Walker.

De Cosmos star, Cody Porter, is an award-winning Edmonton, Alberta actor, creator and collaborator who has been haunting stages and screens around Canada and farther flung regions for the past 20 odd years. 

Some notable theatre projects have included: The Flying Detective* (accidental humour company), Tragedy: A Tragedy* (Blarney), Passion Play* (Wild Side), The Colleen Bawn, Days of Wine and Roses*, Port Authority and This Lime Tree Bower* (Forces of Chaos) plus Betrayal* (Broken Toys).

( * = Sterling Award Nominee). Film and TV highlights include: The Academy (Idiom), Connecting Flights (Link to the Past), and brand new Netflix limited series phenom Painkiller. The stories we tell shape our cultural landscape and it has been an honour for Cody to be a part of that tradition for these past decades. 

The RCAC is overjoyed to collaborate with local writer, Richard Kemick in his latest artistic endeavour. With TWO chances to watch, you, too, can support Richard and his amazing cast and crew while giving  yourself a musical treat in the meantime! 

“Amor De Cosmos is a history buff and language lover’s dream. It’s no exaggeration to say that Kemick has done for De Cosmos what Lin-Manuel Miranda has done for Alexander Hamilton.”
-Mark Kreder, My Entertainment World reviewing 2023 Toronto Fringe Festival

“Exhaustion softens the skeleton, attrition will elicit truth: the art of any.”
– Act 1

“It’s all candlesticks and kaleidoscopes.”
– Act 2

“The way a star is not a star but gravity made visible.”
– Act 3

“Where men have peens he has a pen, erect, to screw us with edicts!”
– Act 4

“I am afraid of cougars, werewolves, and Americans, but I am not afraid of it.”
-Act 5