Are you a fan of the Police Academy movies? The sequels to Porky’s? Do you like joking about farts and sharts? Then Misadventures of a Massage Therapist is going to be comedy gold for you.
Jason Brasher enthusiastically presents stories of pranks and assorted weirdness in the course of his career as a massage therapist. There’s the client with a G-string and digestive issues. In another anecdote, a crazy new employee wanders into their meeting room, lets out a long fart and scampers off. And then there’s that outrageous prank where Brasher manages to… wait for it… get the receptionist...
Death is the uncommon theme of this medley of pieces; hence, the name: "Deadley" = "medley" + "death". Nursery rhyme puppet-play is juxtaposed with behind-the-scenes SNAFUs in Heaven and more poignant scenes of everyday experiences of death; there are even a few musical numbers. In other words, the collection is a little all over the place.
What holds the production together is less the script than the solid chemistry between the two actors: Gabriel Carter and Shauna Johannesen (also the author) as they played against each other, constantly changing roles. Ms. Johannesen leads the piece subtly and well, and Mr....
If you enjoy Greek Mythology then you should like the play Echo. In this one wood nymph show, Echo reminds us there are always two sides of the story. And stories change over time.
Echo needs to speak, she is filled with gossip and can’t help using words. Not surprisingly her gift for the gab gets her into terrible trouble.
Hera, Zeus’s wife, puts a spell on her. She is never to speak again unless she is spoken to and then she cannot use the words unless given them from someone else. She has no words when she falls in...
Don’t want to think too much? Just want to laugh? Then The DK and Morgan Show is definitely for you.
I didn’t really know what to expect when the lights went down at Performance Works But suddenly I was watching two guys with bright orange traffic cones on their heads singing praises about Crayola. What had I gotten myself into? Just over an hour of sketch, improv and stand-up comedy. Nice!
DK and Morgan are two guys who could not be any more different in size, stature, appearance and even name – but they certainly know how to make comedy...
What would a fellow named Colin Godbout, a guitar, and the Vancouver Police Museum unveil to an audience of 6 on a Friday night? Police and Sting cover songs, of course. I admit that for the first 2 songs of this wonderful performance, I was searching for clues to a deeper symbolic reading. What did the order of the songs mean? Why the Police Museum, besides the obvious? Then I realized, this performance was not laden with symbolism, mystery, or metaphor. This performance was, however, filled to the brim with Colin Godbout’s love for music, his guitar, and for the...
Heptademic Redux is a powerful and creative exploration of the limits of sanity, inner vulnerability, and the deterioration of boundaries. Seven people are involuntarily ushered into a room, the door is locked. Outside the walls an epidemic is raging, possibly claiming family members, cherished dogs. But the seven have been confirmed free of contagion. One of them is connected to the government, and help is on its way to transport them to safety. So they wait. Day after day after day. Eating meal supplements left by the government, in a room where the light never goes off, sharing one washroom,...
With a lust to wander, and a desire to connect to an evasive, possibly illusory, principle of universal truth, Martin Dockery takes his audience on a dynamic, fast-paced, quirky, and hilarious odyssey through the trials and tribulations of independent travel through West Africa.
Fucking Stephen Harper is the tale of a journalist’s obsession for holding Stephen Harper accountable for his gay bashing policies, an obsession that eventually climaxes with the journalist being (unjustly) charged for sexual assault of Harper.
A Cynic Tells Love Stories is a one-woman show that travels the twisted paths of the heart -- and the libido. In a series of interlinked monologues, Katherine Glover narrates experiences of falling in and out of love with both genders, navigating the perils of sex, and trying to stay heart-whole in the process. She is a gifted storyteller, and weaves together romantic imagery and deft comedy. She describes true love in a Middle Eastern flower garden, heart break in Nicaragua, and a doomed marriage with a brilliant but mentally unstable lover.
So let's say -- hypothetically -- that you're a loyal Fringe reviewer, and so dedicated are you to bringing your insight on the Fringe phenomenon to the masses that you stay late at the Fringe bar on Saturday night -- for the purposes of research, of course. And let's say you roll out of bed on Sunday just in time for a coffee before your next show. In your fuzzy, sleep-deprived state, what's the one theatrical experience you would yearn for beyond any other? Why only a rock musical on the growing pains associated with turning thirteen! What could give...
