Bert V. Royal's play, Dog Sees God, is very cute. It is a fan-fiction story about the iconic Peanuts gang as confused, unhappy, and drug and sex addicted teenagers. The script it nothing amazing and it is quite standard teenage angst fare but, if you're a fan of the Peanuts gang, you'll like this play.
*Under the Mango Tree* tells a heartfelt story of immigration and loss. As both performer and playwright, Veenesh Dubois paints a lush portrait of the tropical village where young Timal grows up yearning for her father, who has moved to Canada in order to support his child and aging parents from afar.
When I was almost a teenager, my older cousin Jacquie took me to The Pirate Movie. I loved it! She even made me a taped copy of her copy of the album with all the music from the movie, which I listened to over and over again. (I may even still have it somewhere). Years later, I figured out that The Pirate Movie was a spoof of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous operetta The Pirates of Penzance.
At first, I thought that vocal warm-up exercises are NOT the way to start any show. Eventually, I realized that I was in good hands with this script by Chris Craddock and a solid performance by Anna Wyman. Then, I was able to sit back and enjoy the ride.
What happens when someone from Saskatchewan goes to TO
Vancouver: Virtual 1. Simulated, or carried on by means of a computer or computer network. 2. Existing in effect though not in fact 3. A product of the imagination.
Solitaire: 1. Any of a number of games played by one person. 2. A gem, such as a diamond, that is set alone.
John Pippus is a brave man. He's taken his musical career and parlayed it into a one-man show. Trouble is, I think I'd rather be watching him perform a straight-up music concert rather than witnessing this play.
Billed as a multi-cultural comedy about a book launch that doesn’t go exactly as planned, this production did make me laugh, but left me less cheered than troubled.
The Presumptuous Ducks: a one person, one duck experience
What you don't know can save your life. According to Vagan, a motivational speaker who expounds the power of ignorance, we need to cultivate confusion which is the boulevard to ignorance. By following the Ig Mantra (slowly repeating DUH several times), you can apparently create ignorance and overcome the fact that many others may call your new philosophy absurd.
