Wildwood Park walks us through the painful steps of obsession as experienced by Ms. Haviland, (played by Maryth Gilroy), a realtor who has been both drawn into and repulsed by an incident in her hometown. Like a kind of Stockholm Syndrome, she has a very personal relationship with the home she's trying to sell and yet at the same time has far too much emotional attachment to part with.
The perspective buyer, Dr. Simian, (played by Jason Broadfoot), seems to wear a mysterious cloak, and waffles from menacing in one moment to almost normal in the next. He both...
A site-specific production in the bring your own venue (BYOV) category, Willow's Walk: Ripples in Time is a 20 minute short piece at Sculpture Grove which is right beside Alder Bay and Bridge. It is hidden away a bit, so make sure to venture through Granville Island as if you were looking for treasure. Willow (Miranda Allen) is a treasure in her own right as she takes you into time periods of her life and you watch as she puts the big picture together.
This is Miranda Allen's first performance at the Vancouver Fringe Festival. Even with the multiple distractions...
It didn't faze me that I had just inhaled a couple of burgers and was on my way to the Cultch to see a show about food, fat and fitness. I'm also sure most guys would have done the same thing. The only time I am thinking about food as a negative only happens when I've eaten so much that I can't zip up my jeans and I have to go out. I'm all about food. If I could I would be a full time eater-of-food...or maybe a food critic...hmmm...
Now, let's change the POV. What about women? What thoughts...
The story flows naturally and transplants the audience member into the life of a girl named Timal (Veenesh Dubois). Taking place in Fiji, Veenesh's characters are well defined, having a lot of depth from her culture, which are strongly embedded within them.
Jigsaw is a blend of feel-good fun, smart humour, and quiet sincerity, and its young performers work hard to bring its nuances to life. Billed as “a youth-produced cabaret” that draws inspiration from the 1920s, The Hero's Journey, and our modern desires,” it is a series of inter-connected vignettes that follow two loosely-sketched characters (played by Maya-Roisin Slater and Paisley Nahanee) on a psychological and theatrical journey through the world of 1920s stage-performance. The scenes are conntected thematically, but each is also a self-contained drama and characters shift and transform from scene to scene.
No really, folks, this is quality theatre. The budding seven-year old magician in overalls who sat on his mom’s lap beside me mumbled that he, “loved da feet trick.”
In her piece La Chambre Blanche, first choreographed in 1992, Ginette Laurin - choreographer of Montréal's O Vertigo dance company - doesn't merely choreograph a piece about madness and other related experiences, she evokes it, indeed almost invites the audience to join in the frenzy going on in the richly staged white room.
Ballet BC and Turning Point Ensemble earn five stars for their imaginative and courageous decision to bring two new music compositions and four new ballets to the stage to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Ballet BC. The new works filled the large stage at the Queen Elizabeth with authority and a sureness of skill that was commendable.
