Walking into this show I had two thoughts, 1. AHHHHH KIANA IS IN EDMONTON!!! 2. What's the "Walrus" all about?

Because, like any good fringer, I did no studying of the show what so ever before coming to see it.

But, after taking the time to listen to this one-woman play of curiosity of stole art and identity, I realized this shows title is a precise metaphor for the internal feelings of this wonderful performer caught between two worlds.

Having only met Kiana visiting the artist venues of Calgary and never seeing her perform before I was VERY impressed by her vocal talents (Not through singing but through dialects) and the sudden shifts of emotion conveyed just through her face.

One thing kept going through my head as the show went on, a line from the 2015 film Spotlight, "It takes an outsider..." when it comes to revealing the darker more nefarious sides of the institutions of our society and those across the pond as well.

And Kiana wisely makes the casual conversation piece of sharing her dual citizenship as a subtle laying of thematic tracking for us all to go on the journey with her of feeling like you yourself are on display, that you have been stolen and that you are some kind of treasure taken from another world.

Our audience was very fortunate that she shared her curious mind with us.

If there is one desire I had for this show, it would be more moments of soundscaping to give each space in our travel a unique sense of space.

There is one moment in particular that uses music to aid in the scene setting which makes me feel that there were moments in the technical development of the show when music was considered. The lighting cues brought us into tonal shifts, audio may be effective in creating the environments.

But even without added sounds, the audience was engaged and responded with laughter and verbal confirmations that what Kiana (and us as we joined her to see each stolen artifact) was a mark of colonialism - and, with Kiana as the leading point of curiosity, we all felt how these marks, when left on a person, leave deep scars.