Waiting for Go: well worth the wait!

Waiting for Go

 

Having the chance to see Waiting for Go, a production from Theatre Terrific, was an unexpected high in my work week.

 Unexpected, not because I was unexcited, just uneducated about what was going to unfold in the hardwood floored room at the Vancouver Japanese Unitarian Church in the middle of a rainy evening. The warmth and energy from both the audience as well as the performers was so positive and strong that I almost had tears in my eyes. I cry roughly four times a year. I enjoyed the storyline, being a Vancouverite saturated in coffee and cafes on a daily basis. The performers were brilliant and bursting with humour and life.

The theme “waiting” is explored through the characters’  activities in and around a coffee shop. It just so happened that the young fellow who resided next to me for the 45 min. show truly didn’t enjoy waiting. My experience of this show actually started 5 hilariously loud seconds before 8pm when to my left a loud voice began counting down the last 5 seconds before the supposed start of the performance ending with “Blast-off!”. The show was not right on time, so we waited. We waited to experience a gem in the Fringe circuit about waiting to wait..and it was well worth the wait!

 Waiting for Go is playing in the Vancouver Fringe Festival.  Go here for more information.

By Lauren Everall