The Power of Ignorance
When was the last time your brain really helped you?
How often is the most intelligent person you know also the most successful?
Is knowledge really power?
In all areas of our lives; our careers, our relationships with other people, our pastimes, it is most often our own brains that are responsible for preventing us from achieving our goals and dreams.
Who is Vaguen?
Vaguen is a motivational speaker and author of an actual book. His unorthodox approach to the use of the human brain has already helped thousands of people in the tens of thousands of seminars he has given all over the world.
What?
Vaguen draws on everything from the mystical philosophies of the Far East to the simple wisdom of common sense. He uses inspiring anecdotes, spectacular demonstrations, as well as examples from his own perfect life to show how you can use your Ignorance to do anything you’ve ever wanted.
So?
So join Vaguen, and become one of the few who understand the importance of understanding that a lack of understanding is unimportant.
About the show
The Power of Ignorance is a one-man mock motivational seminar featuring Vaguen, Master of Ignorance. Vaguen presents his method of achieving success and happiness and in doing so brings the audience into a darkly comic world of twisted logic and motivational nonsense.
History
In 2002, fringe festival favourite, TJ Dawe saw an excerpt of a short film called ‘The Power of Ignorance’. He thought it could be developed into a good one-man show, obtained the permission of the original film-makers, Jeff Sumerel and Sam Reynolds, and approached Chris to co-write and perform it. The show’s premiere was the 2003 Canadian Fringe tour, selling out every performance in Winnipeg and Edmonton. Since then the show has toured throughout Canada, expanding to a 90-minute version, the script of which, along with the book, was published by Brindle and Glass.
“… exquisitely constructed, perfectly daffy architecture of logic … Gibbs as Vaguen is the funniest performance I’ve seen at the Fringe. The Power of Ignorance is bliss”
Edmonton Journal
“This is one of the funniest shows I’ve seen in years. Cleverly written and beautifully performed, The Power of Ignorance is satirical comedy at its finest.”
Victoria Times-Colonist
“This is the funniest piece I have ever seen at any of the 13 fringes I have attended. Heck, it’s in the top five of the funniest plays I have seen in nearly half a century of theatre-going.”
montreal.com
“The Power of Ignorance is bliss”
Eye Weekly
“one of the best times at the theatre I’ve ever had.”
Calgary Herald
“It is painfully funny… The ending is “striking”, that’s all I feel I can say, but the laughter carried on as people were leaving the venue.”
CBC