Ron James

Venue: Algonquin Theatre
Dates/Times: July 23rd, 7:30 PM

‘The View from Here’, is one man’s perspective on the chaos and challenges of life during this seismic level of socio-political change that’s got us all going ‘squirrelly!’ That man is award winning comedian, best-selling author and unapologetic Canadian RON JAMES, whose been selling out theatres to standing ovations from coast to coast for almost thirty years. With a poet’s ear for language and a stand-up’s eye for satire, the man with a record breaking ten one-hour comedy specials to his credit, takes the audience on a 100 minute or more non-stop roller coaster ride as they process the daily trauma of a world out of whack in the language of laughs.

It’s a view ‘from our side of the fence of a next door neighbour we once knew’, now under the iron rule of a totalitarian ‘Tangerine Genie’ and his reptilian eyed minions, whose messianic march of MAGA-fest Destiny not only threatens our nation’s sovereignty but is dangerously close to driving the entire world itself into a post nuclear stone age!

Which is why, says Ron, “I’m taking yoga, because as soon as I see that mushroom cloud rising over the CN Tower, I’ll be able to bend over and kiss my ass good-bye!”

Interwoven within the theme of American/Canadian relations both past and present, are assorted issues of the day, such as social media addiction; the rising cost of living; love lost and found; fathers and mothers in a world that was; beer buzzed camping trips from party hearty days of yore; Mar-a-Lago lips and plastic surgery; religions run amok; yoga class flatulence; an homage to the people and places seen on Ron’s long road travelled; childhood school days and Anglican church; climate change; AI; hospital wait times; the redemptive powers of nature; all delivered by an ever-struggling ADHD addled ‘everyman’ where mortality is the new reality for his once bullet proof demographic, now but ‘twenty years away from roaming the home in their Led Zeppelin onesies just a sing a long away from taking a Stairway to Heaven’!

‘The View from Here’ reminds us that we’re all in this together, because when ‘me’ trumps ‘we’ everyone loses.