This Is My Room - Life to Lives & Decisions to Be Made

In what very well may be the most interesting BYOV (Bring Your Own Venue) performance of this year's Fringe Festival, performer Phoebe Vlassis draws the audience/visitors/acquaintances? into her room. Then, through storytelling, she draws us into her life and decisions about her future.

It’s a lot to cram into 30 minutes but the pacing isn’t at all rushed and the small room expands to Greece and London and Spain and New Orleans and a room overlooking Pender Street in Vancouver’s Chinatown. Phoebe brings to life in a charming and sympathetic way the people she meets along the way and the behavioral patterns that have driven her from place to place to place.  She’s a natural.

She wonders how many times you have to meet the same person to become acquaintances and waits for someone to come along and inspire her.  There are public transit dilemmas and choices to be made and advice to be given. I wonder how all of that transpired in such a short timespan.  

It’s probably just the work of a darn good storyteller.