This show is a shwack of a lot of fun and LOL funny, the actor has a great grasp of the material and the characters he is playing. We can relax back; we are in good hands.
Mark Shyzer really enjoys being up there on the “boards” and we enjoy watching his characters come to life and talk about their everyday insights into their worlds. His energy is most engaging. Mark flips genders and characters smoothly and dives into their lives and the material to bring them into focus for us larger than life! He uses a lot of pop...
Comedy, Queer, New Work - http://www.shyzer.ca/fishbowl/
Mark Cherniack the playwright/actor is enamoured with the stories and characters he has written about, as is demonstrated by his treatment of each one with great care and sympathy. He worked with these client/patients at the retirement homes, assisted living facilities and nursing homes for over 15 years and is obviously paying homage to their memory every time he steps onto the stage to perform this piece. So he knows the subjects and material of the piece intimately, maybe too intimately.
We would probably all agree that getting old sucks. We see that the elderly are frequently treated as children,...
Playwright Arlen Kristian Tom writes some funny, snappy dialogue in this dynamic two-hander. A tentative groom and his hung over best man are struggling with friendship, commitment and laundry issues in the confines of a small hotel room. The future of the happy couple hangs in the balance while the best man spends a fair bit of time hanging over the toilet.
The return of the all to known wet weather of Vancouver had return as the audience was getting ready for How to Love: The Headphone Play. Headphones were required to be part of the play as everyone was loaded up with an mp3 player. Lead by Darren Boquist (also the playwright), we headed over to the onsite venue right at the docks behind the Granville Island Hotel as instructions were given to us through our mp3s.
The play itself is a heartfelt introspective story but to be part of the story and experience being the characters and participating was...
Comedy, Drama, New Work - http://www.ideafactoryentertainment.com/
I really don't know what was going on for most of Mikhail Tank's The Power of Rejection. At the beginning he related a Greek legend, and then an anecdote from a personal experience, and I figured that the show would be more of that. I could have been fine with more of his stories, because he seemed very comfortable delivering them. But after the second story the show turned into a weird-musical spoken word fusion with very little structure or objective. For thirty minutes I watched Tank wander around, mostly far upstage, relating knee-deep parables about rejection into a microphone....
Multicultural, Drama, Musical Theatre, All Ages http://www.darksoultheatre.com/
Don’t miss Plasticity Now! The show is produced and performed by Mind of a Snail Puppet Co., a shadow puppet duo, and is being performed at the Waterfront Theatre, on Granville Island.
Chloé Ziner and Jessica Gabriel go as far back as the beginning of life on Earth, to show us the origins of plastic and how much of this polymer is part of our lives and how much pollution is involved in its production. Although it won’t probably show you anything you don’t already know, it works as a powerful reminder of the huge quantity...
A commedia dell’arte inspired parable about the evils of greed, Pantaloon’s Pawnshop, is a children’s tale filled with humour and good lessons. Theatre Terrific is a Vancouver local theater company that brings together a vibrant community of professional and amateur actors with or without developmental, physical or mental health challenges. In the preamble to the show, writer and co-director, Susana Uchatius, encourages the audience to laugh, “You’re laughing with us, not at us. So please, laugh!”
Family, Comedy, Drama, Physical Theatre, All Ages - http://www.theatreterrific.ca/
What would it be like to meet your kindergarten teacher for a coffee right after she got out of treatment for anxiety and depression? It would be like watching “birdy”. Karie Richards wrote and performs this one-woman monologue piece about Birdy’s worries and family history, one and the same really.
While God wrote the Bible to share his story, Satan, to disclose his side of things, decided to star in his own theatre production. Produced by Punctuate! Theatre, “An Evening with Satan” is a charming cocktail discussion (sans your own cocktail, which is a shame) with The Fallen Angel himself.
Let's get two things out of the way, first: Parczew 45 (pronounced par-chev) is well worth your time and money. Second: I don't normally like plays like this. I'm kind of tired of the the morally indignant citizen hunting down the war criminal and forcing said evil person to confront his crimes against humanity.
