He's one of Vancouver's best-loved comedians, and he's also - gasp! - a socialist.
Charlie Demers, a CBC Debaters star and Just for Laughs alumni, is bringing his brand of political commentary to the stage at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Leftovers.
"Leftovers is a one-person show - I'm the person - to basically kind of grapple with the idea of a life spent on the political left in the worst possible historical period in the last 200 years to be of the left," Demers says in a video promo for the show.
The Neworld Theatre production, directed by Marcus Youssef, reflects the political reality of the world Demers was born into in 1980 - right between the election of Ronald Reagan in the U.S. and Margaret Thatcher in the U.K.
It's a time a press release dubs "the worst era for socialism since Marx wrote Das Kapital," as, over the past 30 years, the world's richest one per cent have accumulated more wealth than in any other time in modern history.
"Leftovers is my attempt to see if maybe laughing at some of this stuff is a more effective means of dealing with this than just pure despondence," Demers says in the video.
Demers wrote and stars in the show, which is designed by Parjad Sharifi.
Leftovers is onstage in the Shadbolt's Studio Theatre, 6450 Deer Lake Ave., at 8 p.m. March 25 through 28.
Check out www.shadboltcentre.com for information and tickets, or call the box office at 604-205-3000.
