Ron James: The Noise Between Our Ears

Friday, November 6, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. PDT

Cowichan Performing Arts Centre, 2687 James Street, Duncan, BC

Published by Cowichan Performing Arts Centre

Shantero Productions presents Canada’s #1 stand-up road warrior Ron James, is in the driver’s seat once again and bound full throttle for the ‘big wide open’ with his new show, ‘The Noise Between Our Ears.’ With a seismic level of socio-political change shifting a reality we long took for granted, what better way to process the cacophonous overload of stimuli than in the language of laughs. ‘Fresh out of the wrapping’ content skewers everything from the tyrannical Tangerine Genie south of the border looking to turn us into the 51st state, to aging Baby Boomers now but twenty years away from roaming ‘the home’ in their Led Zeppelin onesies, just one more sing a long away from taking a Stairway to Heaven! Alongside these macro issues is a window on the daily trials of a technologically compromised ADHD addled adult, who came of age in a day when a ‘hash tag’ was something you got after getting too close to the hash knives! Whether getting comedic mileage with classic bits on generational differences in families then and now; teacher terrors of public-school days; hand me-down hockey gear; party hearty camping trips with pals in those ‘bullet proof days of yore’, there’s something for everybody. ‘Ultimately though, ‘The Noise Between Our Ears’ sees Ron as the ever struggling ‘Everyman’, doing his best to make sense of a world off kilter while bedeviled by forces beyond his control, where airlines constantly lose luggage, stock portfolios nosedive, mortality’s the new reality and the barber spends more time trimming your ears than he does your head! “Utterly Brilliant” – Ottawa Sun “a comedic tour de force” – Globe & Mail “fits of helpless laughter” – Halifax Herald “hysterically funny … at the top of his game” – Toronto Star “gut-busting, knee-slapping funny” – Ottawa Citizen “funniest man in Canada” – Victoria Times-Colonist “thunderous standing ovation” – Saskatoon Star Phoenix