I haven't had the pleasure of seeing James Brown and Jamesy Evans before but clearly there were many in the opening night audience who were well prepared for the audience participation opportunities. Make sure you sit in the front row if you want to participate. Costumes are provided.
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Fringe Description: Funny · Family Friendly · Intellectual
Her odds are good, but the goods are a little odd. Shirley Kirchmann is 35 and single. In Deranged Dating, she uses stand-up and caricature styles to tell us of her strange experiences in the dating world.
I have to admit that I love instruments like the shakuhachi a lot, and so I was definitely looking forward to this show. It was even better than I expected.
This production has the storyteller (and sometime musician) Jim Sands and the highly versatile and accomplished musician Michel Vles on stage. They work together seamlessly combining prose and music. I would have been happy with a show of either on its own, so to get both elements working together so well is magical.
I applaud Good Theatre’s innovative use of sensory stimuli. “Smell-o-vision” has been waxed poetic about as a possibility in theatre and film, but this is the first production I have seen that actually turns the concept into a reality.
I sat in the “High Intensity Scent Zone” -- a section of the theatre comprising about a quarter of the seats was so marked -- but only noticed the aromatherapy when I specifically thought about it. The main note was mild citrus, or perhaps verbena, which changed to a rick dark liquorice-y scent when the tone of the play...
This show has excellent actors with lots of food-service and preparation experience, snappy music and choreography, and choice goodies and drinks handed out to lucky audience members. Pretty well all the elements you need for a successful show, I would say. This show snaps and sizzles and is just plain fun.
The show is mostly light-hearted, although at times I felt a twinge of guilt wondering if I have ever imposed too much on a server or taken him or her for granted (well, I hope I'm not too bad -- at least I never order "hot water with lemon"...
"The Show Must Go On" is a sweet and delightful show about the tribulations, and occasional triumphs, of taking a small theatre troupe on the road across Canada, across its length and breadth in all seasons. Jeff Leard played Rumpelstiltskin no less than 185 times in that year, but something new always seems to happen so that he does not get a chance to get bored. It was his first "real job" after university, and he knew he was lucky to get a full-time acting role.
He displays a great sense of comedy and timing as his tales range from...
See this incredible show! Poor is one of the most incredible theatre experiences I have had in recent memory. The one woman show is funny, risky, tragic and surprising.
The writing, by Suzanne Ristic is witty, clever, sneaky, poetic, and brilliant. It is both of our time in its exploration of wealth and class and also a timeless human story. Ristic has also created, in Shelly Cormorant, one of the most unique, heroic, disagreeable, alive and powerful characters that I have seen on stage in a long time. I started out laughing at and disliking Shelly, but over the course of...
Playwrights Cleo Halls and Kristina Hunszinger have updated the buddy story with this musical performance featuring lots of rhyming (as you’d expect) with new lyrics set to old and new compositions, augmented by YouTube videos and questionable montages. I’m guessing that no animals actually went missing.
Much was made through careful blocking on this tiny but cozy stage with the two young women meeting at the employment office, sharing a tent they call home and performing on the stage of the talent competition. Both women have interesting singing voices with character and strength. And there’s some mean ukelele...
Fringe Description: Silly · Musical · Warm and Fuzzy
Martin Dockery, unbeknownst to me when I sat down to watch “Moonlight After Midnight”, is a fringe icon. I, on the other hand, was much more distracted by sharing a name with lead actress, Vanessa Quesnelle (we are few, but we are mighty!). Although the blurb of “beautiful woman, mysterious man” didn’t grab me, the concept of an intellectual puzzle play struck me as quite interesting.
The setting, unfailingly, is a hotel room, in which our cast of two dynamically spar throughout. Who they are, and what is going on, are the central themes to...
I had heard about this show earlier on the tour, that Fringe artists were describing it unfailingly (and in rather a cult-like fashion) as “life changing”. Although I was unfamiliar with the reputation of playwright/star Jayson McDonald, I had high expectations for “Magic Unicorn Island”… and I was not disappointed.
Picture-perfect physical theatre opens the show; before your eyes the universe is created, mankind evolves, and one very important fact is asserted: that there has been NO time in human history where war was not present. This theme is built upon until we reach the surprising central narrative of,...
