The return of the all to known wet weather of Vancouver had return as the audience was getting ready for How to Love: The Headphone Play. Headphones were required to be part of the play as everyone was loaded up with an mp3 player. Lead by Darren Boquist (also the playwright), we headed over to the onsite venue right at the docks behind the Granville Island Hotel as instructions were given to us through our mp3s.
The play itself is a heartfelt introspective story but to be part of the story and experience being the characters and participating was...
Comedy, Drama, New Work - http://www.ideafactoryentertainment.com/
I really don't know what was going on for most of Mikhail Tank's The Power of Rejection. At the beginning he related a Greek legend, and then an anecdote from a personal experience, and I figured that the show would be more of that. I could have been fine with more of his stories, because he seemed very comfortable delivering them. But after the second story the show turned into a weird-musical spoken word fusion with very little structure or objective. For thirty minutes I watched Tank wander around, mostly far upstage, relating knee-deep parables about rejection into a microphone....
Multicultural, Drama, Musical Theatre, All Ages http://www.darksoultheatre.com/
Don’t miss Plasticity Now! The show is produced and performed by Mind of a Snail Puppet Co., a shadow puppet duo, and is being performed at the Waterfront Theatre, on Granville Island.
Chloé Ziner and Jessica Gabriel go as far back as the beginning of life on Earth, to show us the origins of plastic and how much of this polymer is part of our lives and how much pollution is involved in its production. Although it won’t probably show you anything you don’t already know, it works as a powerful reminder of the huge quantity...
A commedia dell’arte inspired parable about the evils of greed, Pantaloon’s Pawnshop, is a children’s tale filled with humour and good lessons. Theatre Terrific is a Vancouver local theater company that brings together a vibrant community of professional and amateur actors with or without developmental, physical or mental health challenges. In the preamble to the show, writer and co-director, Susana Uchatius, encourages the audience to laugh, “You’re laughing with us, not at us. So please, laugh!”
Family, Comedy, Drama, Physical Theatre, All Ages - http://www.theatreterrific.ca/
What would it be like to meet your kindergarten teacher for a coffee right after she got out of treatment for anxiety and depression? It would be like watching “birdy”. Karie Richards wrote and performs this one-woman monologue piece about Birdy’s worries and family history, one and the same really.
While God wrote the Bible to share his story, Satan, to disclose his side of things, decided to star in his own theatre production. Produced by Punctuate! Theatre, “An Evening with Satan” is a charming cocktail discussion (sans your own cocktail, which is a shame) with The Fallen Angel himself.
Let's get two things out of the way, first: Parczew 45 (pronounced par-chev) is well worth your time and money. Second: I don't normally like plays like this. I'm kind of tired of the the morally indignant citizen hunting down the war criminal and forcing said evil person to confront his crimes against humanity.
What is the fringe festival all about? The fringe in my mind is about bringing a piece of work that is not mainstream. It is something that causes the audience to be part of the experience. It is simple and it is interactive.
Randy Rutherford is an accomplished artist and has made great contributions to many fringe festivals, including the Vancouver Fringe Festival in past years.
It's a boys have a penis, girls have a vagina kinda show.
This one man physical theatre show takes us to two different worlds – the Scrotum and the Uterus – two worlds that are preparing for plans to stay off complete destruction.
