Make Love happen in 60 sec - if you want to know how, come see this show!

The directors Susanna Uchatius and James Coomber journeyed into conversation with nature inspired by a quote from writer and ecologist David Abrams: “Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears and nostril-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.”

The 12 cast members, actors of all abilities encouraged...

If you like symbolist, Artaudian, avant-garde, experimental theatre, I would recommend making the trek out to the Firehall because there aren’t many shows like this at the Vancouver Fringe Festival.  

But if you don’t, then don’t waste your time with this show.  

I don’t like this type of theatre. But that’s just me. Objectively, Pipef@%! is a well-oiled assembly line of activity that is passively interesting but produces no clear messages or story in its 60 minutes on stage. 

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District 13’s large cast for this production (over a dozen) pumps a lot of energy, talent and celebration into the thin, but iconic, love and resistance story that is The Hunger Games. Laced through this musical production are references to pop singers (Taylor Swift) and local culture (Tim Horton’s) but if you aren’t particularly tuned in to these, you’ll still enjoy this show if you like well-performed musical comedy.

The production I attended was sold out — lots of...

An abstract meditation on the nature of those with hooves, perhaps you require hooves of your own to truly appreciate this production written and directed by Elysse Cheadle. Inspired by beasts both domestic and mythic, hoof attempts to stand on its own four feet (or 10 feet if you count the actual number of feet belonging to its five female performers appearing onstage at the Waterfront Theatre). The show has physical theatre and abstraction aplenty but spoken text is largely nowhere to be found.

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