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What You Want: the crazy, random, perverted world according to Andrew

Oh my god I have to write a review! It’s 10am, the Sunday after seeing the play What You Want on Friday night at the Havana Theatre, and I still haven’t written the damn review.

Andrew, I sympathize. What to write? How to write it? The never ending torture a writer must go through.

Random notes I took while watching the play:

What You Want: is cynical and dirty

Playwright Andrew Templeton returned to Vancouver after a fifteen-year absence and What You Want is the almost-true story of what he got.  He has written himself into the play, and the cast takes turns playing him, themselves and their characters.  Actors Rachel Aberle, Gillian Bennett, Russell Bennett and Sean Tyson, ramp up the comedy when they bicker about whether they’re