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.
“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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Expectation is the best friend of disappointment, and I would have been better served to check the former at the door. I thought, how can this be anything but awesome, with vaudeville influences, an opera trained singer doing jazz songs, all at the Revue stage? Although this play had its share of charms, ultimately I had a hard time with it.
Bremner Duthie plays The Chaser at a time when the last vaudeville theatre in America is being shut down. Very quickly in the show, he introduces the sage life advice of his long-past partner, Sally: “frivolity is the human...
I am not entirely sure if this was supposed to be funny because the previous five plays were very dark and I was expecting much of the same tone. Whatever the case, it didn't matter to myself as I was very happy to laugh in the little motel room.
The story relates the adventure of Rolly and Stevie, a father and son criminal organization of the type you would see running from the Keystone Kops. The would-be criminals are hired by a lack-lustre criminal by the name of Shirley, featuring Kate Richard in a role that is the complete opposite...
You can never get enough violence with a George F. Walker play and this story has it all. This is the darkest play in the cycle. It relates the story of two people who have fallen on hard times. They have arrived at the motel in search of work. Henry, the dutiful and traditional husband, is looking for a new job after he was laid off by his previous employer. This has left him in a state of mind that borders on sanity. His wife, Lily, has followed along to support her husband. They encounter hardship at the motel and...
This story is a bit like a police procedural television show. Lost cops, borderline lawyers, victimized criminals, and how even the simplest of plans can go very wrong and have catastrophic results.
Featuring Loretta is quite a different story from the first two. It is the story of a woman caught between two worlds. The first, her overbearing in-laws and controlling family, the second the two men she has met at the motel. Loretta, played by Kate Richard, finds herself always running into people who want nothing more than to control her. Dave, the insecure not-so-worldy man, played by Kevin Stark, is a wimpy boy rather than a man who knows what he wants to do but barely has the confidence to actually do anything. We see the return of goofy porn...
