Yukon Ho!
2019-22 Creator & performer
Come to the Yukon! Cold, dark, and lonesome, with big animals, dubious men and dodgy liquor. Lots of liquor.
Where there are more caribou than people, tossing chainsaws is sport and watching bears forage for garbage is considered a big night out.
It’s where ‘Intrepid’ Jen grew up and barely escaped.
Join her riotous one-woman, cabaret-style survival guide and learn to quaff questionable cocktails, be Bear Aware and kick your way out of Canada’s frozen North with your mukluks on fire.
Tragic, funny and bizarre, it’s all mostly true.
Photography: Cesare De Giglio
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‘Fascinating, laugh-out-loud funny and surprisingly tender’ ★★★★
— The List
Creative team
Creator & performer - “Intrepid Jen” Jennifer Irons
Co-writer - Robert “Skookum” Churchill
Director - “Savvy” Sophie Powell
Producer - Lou ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ Rogers
Movement Director - Christian “Double Bit” From
Designer/Maker - Annie “Get Your Glue Gun” Brooks
Composer - “Mega” Stewart Baxter
Fiddle - “Harmony” Hannah Sless
Prosthetics - Zoe “Zohan” Kellett
Researcher (Whitehorse) - “Doodle Deb” Debbie Frizzell
Production Manager - Anne “Blaggin” Marie Krolick
Lighting Designer - “Luminescent” Lucy Hansom
Dramaturgy - Lou “You Got a Problem” Cope
BSL Interpreter - Anna “The Hand Whisperer” Kitson
Mentor - Bryony “Shine a Light” Kimmings
Project Management - Linzi “8 Legs” Whitton
PR - sfp Communications
Marketing - The Cut Outs
Music
Richard Strauss, Seeberg Music Box, ACDC, Pointer Sisters, Portico Quartet, Mrs. Mills, Stewart Baxter, Robert Churchill, Hannah Sless, Scott Joplin, Jacques Offenbach. Spell of the Yukon by Robert Service.
Photo credits
Klondike Visitors Association, E.A. Hegg from Washington University Archives (Digital Library), NPS Archives Collection, Dawson City Museum, Alaska Digital Archives, Irons’ personal collection
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Thank you’s
Lisa “Way Out” Wolfe,
“Dramaturgical Don” Donald Hutera
Sarah “The Strategiser” Sansom
Claire “Ginger Princess” Campbell
“Blazin’” Lucy May Wilson
Stefy “Secret Weapon” Barton
Lou Cope
Zoe Mills
Sophia Passmore
Kate White
Nick Lawson
Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous Society
DanceWest
Brighton Dome
The Walkers
Skywalkers
The Irons
and all the Yukoners who have shared their tall tales (true or otherwise).
Supported by
DanceHouse Worthing, Freespace at Studio Wayne McGregor and Patrons of Jennifer Irons.
Originally commissioned by Ignition Festival for DanceWest.