My Life As a 6 Ft Sunflower
Is there anything worse than only getting 13 likes on that instagram pic you posted? Or only having 4 people click attend to your event? Yes – being reborn as a sunflower.
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See https://theatreinlondon.ca/2017/05/my-life-as-a-6-ft-sunflower/ for details.
Location: Good Foundation Theatre
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See https://theatreinlondon.ca/2017/05/my-life-as-a-6-ft-sunflower/ for details.
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See https://theatreinlondon.ca/2017/05/my-life-as-a-6-ft-sunflower/ for details.
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8:15 pm My Life As a 6 Ft Sunflower
See https://theatreinlondon.ca/2017/05/my-life-as-a-6-ft-sunflower/ for details.
Location: Good Foundation Theatre
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See https://theatreinlondon.ca/2017/05/my-life-as-a-6-ft-sunflower/ for details.
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See https://theatreinlondon.ca/2017/05/my-life-as-a-6-ft-sunflower/ for details.
Location: Good Foundation Theatre
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Life is what happens when you’re not looking; but if you take a moment to look, life is beautiful. That’s my takeaway from Brendan Kinnon story of a lonely man’s reincarnation as a lonely sunflower. It’s a bittersweet story, but more sweet than bitter. Its lyricism will take you to the clouds and back to earth again. Mr. Kinnon’s performance is sensitive and attentive to detail: humorous moments are exploited for all they’re worth, and a good thing too since this story, in less skillful hands, could have become rather cloying and saccharine.
In this one person show, Brendan Kinnon plays a character who discovers, after his unexpected death, that he has been reincarnated as a sunflower. The play consists of the observations and reflections prompted by this surprising turn of events. This choice of setting inevitably leads us to expect to hear a new perspective or novel insights into our condition: who better than the recently deceased to provide us with an interesting take on life and death? Although Kinnon bravely takes on that challenge, the script often struggles to escape the mundane; instead of profundity, we get the cycle of life. Fortunately, Kinnon’s performance makes it easy to overlook that deficiency. He delivers the monologue with a skilful naturalness that, despite the circumstances, allows him to create a sympathetic character about whom we can’t help but care.
Sunflower: A Story of Life, with Surprisingly Deep Roots
Throw out everything you would expect when you think of a grown man in a giant sunflower suit. Brendan Kinnon’s My Life as a 6 ft. Sunflower is a wonderful story about life, death, and renewal that has surprisingly deep roots.
Kinnon is the six-foot-tall Sunflower in question. He enters to a voice over, ostensibly from a National Geographic film crew shooting a documentary on sunflowers. Through circumstance, he misses his ‘shot’ and starts to complain about his lot in life.
You see, Kinnon’s sunflower is a reincarnated human who died, after an unremarkable life, young — and bizarrely. But over the course of the play, Kinnon shares his feelings of inadequacy in life, of feeling disconnected and alone, and that he was missing out.
Now, rooted firmly in the soil amongst thousands of other sunflowers, he slowly discovers that life has purpose, meaning, and a greater connection to the world around him. He discusses the inevitability — and beauty — of life, death, and renewal. And he’s able to look back upon his human life with a little more understanding and appreciation for what life has to offer.
Sunflower is a story that examines our place in life with grace and charm. There’s an element of spirituality without getting preachy; there’s self-reflection without delving into morose self-obsession; and there’s a moral foundation that’s shared without beating the audience over the head with it.
And, at just over a half-hour, it packs a lot of fun dialogue and character growth into a short amount of time.
My Life as a 6 ft. Sunflower is a show that quickly grows on you because it has heart, charm, and those aforementioned deep roots.