Crown Hill Cemetery

Lisa Haas

This casual one woman show about growing up in a death-obsessed family while living next door to New Jersey’s largest commercial cemetery has the potential to be a profound piece, but a lack of theatricality prevents it from connecting with the audience.

Writer/performer Lisa Haas’ conversational style works well with the personal content of her show, but her stage presence is characterized by a kind of nervous excitability that doesn’t engage. Little of the narrative is particularly funny or particularly compelling, and an abrupt conclusion after about 40 minutes leaves one unsatisfied. An earnest effort but a bland end product.

Crown Hill Cemetery is part of this year's Toronto Fringe Festival and continues until July 11th. For more information you could bury yourself in "this":http://www.fringetoronto.com/fringe09/indoorBYOV_listings.html#C or you could go "here":http://www.creative-evolution.org/and dig your own grave.

By Justin Haigh