thought provoking

NeOn (Ne.On) is about love and the way love has changed over the past seventy years. It follows the stories of a grandmother, two young women, and two young boys seeking the affection of the unattainable Miki. The stories are interwoven among time and space and the story goes through a series of fractured moments which the audience is left to piece together.

The production was touching: well conceived and executed. I really enjoyed the incredibly energetic role of Nathania Barnabe as Miki – the childlike goddess who refers to herself as “princess of the universe!” The slice of life feature also...

George, the periwinkle-colored old man puppet from the jury, accompanied Adam Francis Proulx to the Fringe Box office Friday afternoon to drum up some interest for his performance here in Vancouver. Judging by the line-up at 10:30 pm on his first night, I would say he managed that. The acclaim he gained at the Montreal and Toronto Fringe earlier this year might have something to do with it as well.

Proulx is an excellent and versatile actor. He characterized all 12 jurors...

Playwright Kenneth Brown plays Nelson, the father of Augusta (Candice Fiorentino). Augusta arrives at her parents' house and is faced with her inner emptiness and confusion expressed through irritation at all the imbalances in her life.

Expository dialogues on the phone to her grandma, spouse, and mother, and by texts or thoughts shared with her father, are cleverly intertwined to unravel the issues that make her life difficult.

How life's storms will need to be navigated with a sea...

Make Love happen in 60 sec - if you want to know how, come see this show!

The directors Susanna Uchatius and James Coomber journeyed into conversation with nature inspired by a quote from writer and ecologist David Abrams: “Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears and nostril-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.”

The 12 cast members, actors of all abilities encouraged...