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A Story of O's - Bravely Intimate

Tonya Jone Miller is an award-winning performer from Portland, Oregon who tells the story based on her decade of experience as a professional phone sex operator. This show was awarded the Outstanding Individual Performance award at the 2015 London Fringe Festival.

Tonya is unique and talented monologist. She explores not only the needs, desires, and intentions of the individuals on the other end of the phone line, but also humanity, her own bodily anxieties, and acceptance of herself and others. She lays bare not only her body but her soul.

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September 16th, 2015 · By Natalia Krioutchkova

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Starstuff: Per Aspera Ad Astra

Starstuff: Per Aspera Ad Astra, written and directed by Derek Chan, tells the story of astronaut Thomas Malinsky and his perilous journey to a planet far away in a one-person spaceship.

The story is complex and multilayered. Although the story is philosophical and historical, it is overly repetitive and difficult to follow. It is challenging to determine what play the writer/director was aiming for. It seems like he tries to draw parallels between the birth of a child and space exploration. In spite of the fact that...

September 16th, 2015 · By Natalia Krioutchkova

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Fire in the Meth Lab: It’s a Comedy

Based on the show’s picture and title alone, I thought this would be a gritty drama and almost missed it. Don’t make that mistake. It’s very funny.

Jon Bennett also created Pretending Things Are A Cock. If I had read that, I might have guessed.

Fire in the Meth Lab is about writer and performer Jon Bennett’s life, particularly his childhood and relationship with his older brother who ends up in jail. Bennett is a confident, affable, and...

September 15th, 2015 · By Jim MacDonald

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Alone in the Universe - Delightfully Bizarre Solo Comedy

“It was the dawn of time…” So begins Adam Pateman’s thoroughly delightful Alone in the Universe. With a series of increasingly neurotic mute living tableux, Pateman takes us through the history of humankind, from the primordial ooze, to newborn babies, to “...

September 14th, 2015 · By Julian Legere

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Brain - Moving and Intense

After watching “Brain” a one-man show - written and performed by Brendan McCleod, I felt like I’d gotten a tangible glimpse into the mind of someone with OCD. It’s an intense play that is touching, funny, and deeply vulnerable.

Author of the one person show “The Big Oops”, the novel "The Convictions of Leonard McKinley” and the monologue “The Fruit Machine”, McCleod is known as a writer and spoken word artist. His play "Brain" is a well constructed and compelling story that takes remarkable emotional risks and goes deep.

September 14th, 2015 · By Alicia Novak

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Rhonda Badonda – A Beautiful Brain

Rhonda Badonda: Pain in Her Brain is a credit to the solo show format. Rhonda Musak, the writer and performer of this creative autobiographical piece, fills the stage with motion and personality. She slips into her many characters with ease, and while some of the accents don't quite ‘stick’, the characters themselves are lovingly crafted and portrayed. Musak acts, narrates, and sometimes dances her way through the experience of growing up with a learning disorder she doesn't know she has, a story she tells with glowing wit and humor.

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