2009

A Buddha statue sits prominently downstage centre, radiating out a message to the audience: “keep your eye on me, something terrible is about to happen to me”.  The anticipation of disaster and predicting which of the various elements will likely go wrong is at the core of a work like Peter Shaffer’s Black Comedy, currently in production at the Arts Club.

Julie McIsaac and Charlie Gallant in Black Comedy. Photo: Emily Cooper.

House of KOSA by Miranda Huba, presented by the TigerMilk Collective, depicts the warped personalities of the family that governs a fictional fashion house, with particular focus on the relationship between the head of the household and the daughter who is his only scion.

The chorus look on mother in House of KOSA. Photo credit: Cory Dawson

A unique collaboration of writers, actors and directors, Leaping Thespians is a group of talented women who take turns in all of these roles, and it really works!

Once Upon a Lesbian: no touching, photo by Peter Taylor

Shotgun, written and directed by Kari Marken and Jody Parasiers, is a series of vignettes about four high-school teachers car pooling.  Mike, Ben and Kathryn (Jeff Kerrie, Hector Johnson, and Gemma Levinson) are the returning car poolers while Tessa (Ela Desmarchelier) is a newcomer from Australia.

Did your teacher look like this? Mike demonstrates deep knowledge about lego characters.

Midnight Hotel Productions is a new company out of NYC that has decided to bring their above mentioned show to not only the Victoria Fringe, but Vancouver as well. Good for them: get out, see the west coast, “go kayaking with the orcas”, have fun.

The Journey is almost done.

The concept is simple and a whole lot of fun.

Mini-Hive: a swell evenng worth the travel.

Lots of rumours about the Red Bastard around the Fringe site, in line-ups, at the Fringe bar…buzz buzz buzz…so off I eagerly scampered to experience this phenomenon.

Would you put your hand up there? Plank: we go where others fear to go.

Arriving at Granville Island while the rain still pattered away, I was relieved to feel it subside as I made my way to Jullanar of the Sea. The air was fresh and the ground damp along the walkway to the very corner of the island at the Amphitheatre in Ron Basford Park.

Naomi Steinberg

There are many churches, halls and meeting places where people go to study the Word; most of the time you are there, reading passages and trying to find some deeper meaning.

Victor got the gospel

The analgesic properties of PCPs can cause users to feel less pain, and persist in violent or injurious acts as a result.

Jem Rolls: a tosser's revenge

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