Created by Writer/Director Susanna Uchatius and the Theatre Terrific players, this Fringe BYOV show is happening at the Japanese United Church. Opening with the crooning of suspicious-looking chickens playing a ukelele and a banjo, we are gradually introduced to a truck full of chickens bound for the diner. What will they do? These are no ordinary chickens! These are chickens with dreams and, once they discover that they aren’t on a tour, they organize to contrive their daring escape.
As with much of life, the chickens go along with the program, jump aboard the truck and only after the...
Rambo: The Missing Years is a one man show performed by Howard Petrick, a San Francisco artist. It is a wonder how Petrick can remain sane as he re-tells the portion of his life, when he was drafted into the Vietnam War.
Using over a dozen characters Petrick managed to embody the characters, but sometimes it was difficult to follow the storyline. The stage was quite bare, with a trunk, a small desk and chair, and Petrick. His attire was a little lackluster, being of a faded t-shirt and faded black jeans. I understand that with the nature of a...
“Rove” is a creative, site-specific piece which weaves two stories into one, but you only get to fully know one of these stories as they simultaneously play out, each with its self-selected audience. It is an ambitious script, which is well-realized with an impressive ensemble of 16+ actors and musicians, roving over the waterfront
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While still in university, Sam Mullins was challenged as an actor (somewhat disingenuously) to ‘go outside his type‘. This is his story of rising to that challenge and going far above and beyond in a surprising and touching way.
There was something about the description of this play which made me think I wouldn’t like it. Was it that it was about two teenage girls? Teenage girls are annoying. Was it that it took place in a church? Churches are boring. Was it that it was about friendship? Friendship is . . . well, it’s just not very entertaining, right? Wrong. All my assumptions about this play were wrong. And that got me thinking about what informed my assumptions.
This play was simple, and simply superb. The actors (Karina Palmitesta and Sarah 'Tich' Wilson) and direction were both spot-on;...
Sebastian X Samur is a tall man – he moves with a natural ease which has obviously been honed through physical training in expressive arts. His skills with movement are the backbone of “Red,” a retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood story from the perspectives of hunter and prey.
Samur plays both: a sweet little “Red” and a rough Big Bad Wolf, with only a piece of red fabric and his long, fluid body as his tools. With a story so simple and worn, what tension is added to the mix comes from a novel empowerment of the audience...
Jon Stewart, playwright and performer, has your attention before he even gets on the stage with the sound of the Vancouver Sky Train in the dark.
Good one-person plays always amaze me, Big Shot in particular. Stewart does not let any of the various characters overlap in the slightest, making them seem the truly different people that they are. The characters in this play collide in a way that is, sadly, entirely plausible.
A big part of what makes this play so awesome is the subject matter. Big Shot deals with the scarily automated...
Arnie the Carnie's House of Fun is just that- pure fun. Brian Anderson, the writer and Arnie the Carnie himself, is a natural performer (20 years of experience probably helps too) and puts on a show that includes magic, physical feats, and tips to avoid being scammed at the carnival.
