Alison Wearing knocks this outta the park! This was not a play...this was a heart-felt, inspiring avalanche that Alison engages with her audience at The Cultch. A historically anchored auto-biographical recount about growing up with her gay father. Starting in the 1970s, Wearing confides in us with her "confession" on what it felt like growing up confused, frustrated, ashamed, and proud.
From Toronto's bath-houses, to police brutality, to French cafes... We are all taken on a socially-enriched journey filled with snapshots of where her family, and our cultural was, and where it has landed with not so "normal" family dynamics....
The Havana hosts local playwright and actor RC Weslowski for his poignant and poetically intelligent one-man intrigue. Weslowski doesn't make it easy on himself with the subject matter. On its face, this play is about a man's severe obsession, and let's face it - deviant - relationship with paper products. After numerous attempts at curbing his desires, he find himself living with "The Watchtower" publication, struggling to have a "normal" sex life, while his "ex"...the Yellow Pages shows up at his door for a booty call.
You say, "What?"...I say, "I know hey? WTF!" But when you dive into the dialogue...
What do you do if you are being tormented by an outside force you cannot understand?
George (Kevin Ray) and Byron (Nic Turcotte) are on a camping trip together when mysterious words start appearing. The mechanism of outdoor projection is not clear, but both George and Byron can see the communications. When the entity is asked why "it" speaks of itself in the third person, it says it is a third person--thus, I will refer to the entity doing the communication as "third person" throughout. The third person is somewhat sadistic, as "it" chronicles real-time updates of everything George and Byron...
Remember when you started out in highschool. Some of us remember it well, some of us not so much and some of us probably don’t want to remember. The teenage years for most people seem awkward and emotionally taxing. We all had our own story growing up. In Braced we find a story of a young girl just about to start that crazy ride, but also having scoliosis to deal with as well.
This is a great show for those who have someone in their lives that maybe are going through the same thing. I recommend young women...
Before we begin I want to help out the new to theatre audience a little bit. This show is a type of show that mocks things from daily life to people to daily events. The actual term for this kind of theatre is “Bouffon” which was re-coined in the early 1960’s by Jacques Lecoq in Paris. It is the art of Mockery.
Now, when you go see this show, hopefully you will not get offended. But if you do, remember, it’s your own damn fault.
So these two jesters are….are….well, buffoons. But don’t worry, they won’t...
Now, think about cuddling with a complete stranger? Could you?
Now, think about cuddling up with an assortment of strangers.
Come Cuddle Me has some real science to back it up. The playwright and performer Nicole “Coco” Roberge was inspired and based her show from a thesis written by Joy Brooke Fairfield. The Carousel is a small venue in Granville Island (beside the Granville Island brewery) and this show “snuggles” in perfectly.
This show was fun to watch. Nicole entertains us effortlessly...
Box after box after box… Artfully and intelligently crafted by the creators (Cecilia Davis and Daniel Morton), The Shoebox Philosopher is definitely for all audiences who can tread the waters of layered thought or are willing to look into the mind of a lost philosopher. It’s an intellectual journey we tag along and watch as Sadie (Cecillia Davis) works at a deadend job, continuously and almost eternally doing inventory without end. The show is filled with quotes of many of our great thinkers of the past and quirkiness by Sadie and her coworkers.
After the thunder and lightning and rain we, the audience were all gathered at the base of Waterpark Hill. For all those of us who grew up in Vancouver we all remember the big yellow slide at Granville Island. Fun summer days where we played pretend and whatever our little imaginations came up with became part of that playground. Well, we got to be part of that magic one more time. This night however we marched up the long stairs…up to the ship of dreams.
As we cast off into the realm between life and death we all had...
I am the type of person that sees someone and is happy for what they believe in and the passion that they have should be honored. So to Tasha Diamant and her Human Body Project, all the best in your future endeavors.
Tasha Diamant refers to herself as a “sample human being” and as she guides us to work towards a place of connection, taking responsibility for our actions and to allow ourselves to find vulnerability.
She comes out on stage naked and unscripted and lets the audience start the process. We were given an artpad in...
The synopsis for this play is "A story of a Chilean growing up in Canada and a Canadian growing up in Chile". The person doing the growing up is Andy Canete in Canada or Andreas Cañete in Chile. As Canete begins his journey he tells us about moving to Canada and the anglicization of his last name. The next 45 minutes are spent recounting his childhood and youth with specific events.
Some of the stories work, some don't. The story of the porn in the title is by far the funniest of them all. Recounting how his parents hit him...
