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Comedian Gavin Stephens, with special guest Dave Getachew, will hit the stage on Sept. 19 at Cousin Vinny’s in Chelmsford. Stephens is a Juno-nominated comedian and Canadian Screen Award-winning writer who “draws on his working-class Caribbean roots to deliver a sharp, unflinching perspective on stage,” promoter Derek Young said in a release. “His comedy is not about chasing the room but rather a live, existential interrogation that combines absurdity, ideas, and uncomfortable truths.”

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In August 2019, Omar Rajeh sat in his bedroom, listening to the sound of pounding percussion with his world in crisis. In the midst of political instability, Citerne Beirut, a theatre and cultural centre Rajeh had founded in his native Lebanon, was forced to close, dismantled by order of the local government, who planned to build an incinerator on the site. Heartfelt … Omar Rajeh in Dance Is Not for Us. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the GuardianRajeh tells us that as a teenager, coming of age at the end of the Lebanese civil war, dance had always seemed like the most revolutionary thing he could do. Now here he is, more than three decades later, still dancing – out of frustration, defiance, resistance and a desire to connect. As the percussive score gains momentum, Rajeh’s busy body builds up a sweat. In this danced stream of consciousness, Rajeh is not always an especially elegant mover, but he dances like it’s a necessary thing to do. Part of this year’s Dance Umbrella festival, Dance Is Not for Us is a solo that appears at times like an explosion of physical instinct, but it is mostly calm, considered musings on the nature of choreography, with all its workings exposed.