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Calgary Herald Playwright AJ Demers, inside of Hanson’s Fishing Outfitters on Thursday March 29 2012 in Calgary, whose new play The Whimsy State of Outer Baldonia tells the story of how three fishing buddies created their own country, off the Nova Scotia coast, around 1948, and opens at the Luncbox April 2. Photograph by: Dean Bicknell, Calgary Herald |
Reeling in the magic of a little nation
By Stephen Hunt
Calgary Herald
April 4, 2012
The Whimsy State takes the form of a bar story
Playwrights find stories the way some people find spare change in the pocket of old pants.
In Calgary playwright AJ Demers’ case, it was a story about three fishing buddies who decided to create a new country out of their favourite fishing hole, a small island off the Nova Scotia coast.
“Years ago, a friend handed me a magazine article on micronations,” says Demers, “and (said), this might be something great to write. “I looked at it,” he adds, “and went, absolutely! And Baldonia (the name of the country in question) absolutely jumped off the page.”
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