Joseph Campbell was a professor of Literature in the U.S. and more importantly a chronicler of how we humans tell our stories to one another across our entire history. 

He wrote an important book called The Hero of a Thousand faces which describes The Hero’s Journey,  a term that James Joyce created when writing Ulysses,   broke down all heroes tales into 3  parts. These are The Departure, The Initiation, and The Return.  Ken brown describes his hero’s journey from leaving his middle class home, to witnessing the greek revolution. to being help at gunpoint in turkey to the trails of Afghanistan,.Join us for Episode five of the LIFE AFTER life after hockey podcast, and travel with us in this epic story of discovery and loss.

 The end of high school marks the end of one important part of your life and then the launch into the early years of adulthood. In high school you can begin to learn the outlines of what you think your vocation is and just after it you begin its pursuit. When this happens you start heroes journey from travel to meeting the key mentors in your life.  That journey includes challenging the authority of what you want to learn as well as being shaken and awakened by those who are teach you and the work you try to do. So welcome to Episode 4 of Life After, Life After Hockey 

There are a few way you can go about learning how to do a thing. You can sit with a book , you can listen to a teacher, or in the case of Ken Brown you can learn by doing. Not only doing but in sticking with the doing of something. In his case it is Theatre at Strathcona High School complete with the music of the 60s, romance, and the counter culture. Also the learning of the shape of the world by seeing it radically change around him. And  learning about other peoples ,their ways of living as we go through high school and  beyond. 

A time can so definitive that it’s echos are felt for decades to come. Such were the 1960’s.Such is the case with a young Ken Brown growing up in Garneau, Edmonton. And being that this is a Canadian tale we learn about winter on the prairies . Not some thing to be endured but rather to fling yourself into with joy. So lets go back to the source from which this Canadian Artist springs. The decade of the 60’s and the great Canadian season of winter.   

What if you wrote a play that was so popular that you performed this play over a thousand times across Canada and Europe?  What if the very success of that play was a trap?  Welcome to Life After Life After Hockey.  A podcast about a Canadian theatre artist and the wonderful, sometimes bizarre, sometimes dangerous influences on his creative life.   Follow Kenneth Brown's journey, from ancestors who were pissed at George Washington to what happens after you write the greatest Canadian hockey show ever. This new play, LIFE AFTER life after hockey will be preformed at the 2023 Edmonton Fringe festival