Improvised Broken Hearts




Daybreak Alberta from CBC Radio Calgary show

Summary: "How can you mend a broken heart," the Bee Gees once asked. Well for two actors, part of the mending can be found in songs that remind us of lost loves, and those tunes just let us have a good sob about it. Sara Simpson and Nicole Zylstra created "All Request Heartache" for the 2018 Calgary Fringe Festival. The show takes song requests from the audience and turns them into improvised mini-biographies of love and loss. Nicole Zylstra came by the Daybreak studio to share a few a weepy songs with Russell