Randy Rutherford is an accomplished artist and has made great contributions to many fringe festivals, including the Vancouver Fringe Festival in past years.
What is the fringe festival all about? The fringe in my mind is about bringing a piece of work that is not mainstream. It is something that causes the audience to be part of the experience. It is simple and it is interactive.
Many Fringe shows involve the performer breaking the fourth wall and addressing the audience or (gulp) moving into the audience and singling out people to engage. This show will have you shouting things out and throwing things on the stage and enjoying every minute of being lied to, deceived and tricked.
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.
“Just Bust a Move” gathers a small audience on the Creekside Boardwalk underneath the Sandbar Restaurant. We watch as a young man takes a break from the club upstairs to agonize about how to impress a girl he likes with epic dance moves. The set is perfect, I was right along with him, remembering being outside clubs taking a break from the intensity of the social situation inside.
Golgonoozans is a theatre company created by playwright William Ilan Rubel who studied English at Columbia University and is a current Ph.D. student at UBC. In The Time of The Dream Warrior is a premiere of a new play happening at the Vancouver Fringe.
As a young boy on Vancouver Island during games of shinny, Ricky dreams of the NHL, imagines he’s Gretzky and hones his significant hockey skills with his three best goons. Now they’re in high school and battling his own ego, peer pressure, his feelings around being adopted and his genetic predispositions, Rick attempts to navigate the various choices available to him and please his parents and his coach.
On a simple set depicting a locker room and equipped with a bench and some very effective lighting, director Angela Konrad leads Evan Frayne in a skillfully depicted series of scenes and...
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