This has to be one of the very best performances at this year's Fringe. A strong pair of professional actors and a riveting script combine to build the tension minute by minute as the ante is upped one more notch by each player, leading to an unexpected conclusion.
Is it the end of the world or the beginning? The Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world as we know it and the beginning of another in December 2012. We were all braced for complete disaster because of Y2K but we were fine... then we had 9-11 and we're still fine (some of us, anyway)...then Planet X was coming towards us... Do we need constant impending global disaster to control us? Do we respond with reactionary fear? Riots? Or do we seek out community and each other for comfort and solace?
The audience for this show will divide between those who saw Spalding Gray himself perform (well, speak) this, on DVD or even at the Cultch about 20 years ago, and those coming new to the script.
Freud and his ego have one hour to live. Can they come to terms with each other? Can Freud complete self-analysis before this time expires?
Farcical and incredibly witty, the ego/ unconscious reveals to Freud his history, recalled in snippets of memory, that have made Freud who he is, and his theories what they are. The quickly–paced interplay of Freud and his ego, as they connect, then disconnect (the ego attempting to escape the confines of Freud’s mind), is the work of pure comic genius. We meet characters from Freud's past, as well as his clients. Book your tickets immediately:...
With a desire to become a serious actor, Sam Harbinger ended up in the worst contract in show business as a children’s television performer. In an attempt to get out of the business altogether, Harbinger and his sidekick desperately try to get his show cancelled by making it highly inappropriate for young children. But his plan fails and – surprise, surprise - he ends up becoming an even bigger star, but with a whole new crowd.
Despite being advertised as a comedy, The Harbingers by playwright Jim Cunningham would in fact be better described as a tragedy. And if the...
Barry Smith has a rock-solid history of successful multi-media solo comedy shows that somehow shine the spotlight on Barry's appreciation of humanity so well that you somehow manage to forget all that whizz-bang Power Point™ technology he uses to tell those captivating stories. Following on Jesus in Montana, American Squatter and Me, My Stuff and I (aka Barry Smith's Baby Book), Barry brings us his Employment quadrant to compliment the Spiritual, Family and Material quadrants with which Fringe-goers have become familiar.
And, really, we are so familiar by now, aren't we? I mean, I feel like I'm related to Barry,...
Mark Alford, Ryan Hitchcock and Matt Olson are the cheerleaders for 1-2-3 USA!, a new sketch comedy trio from Olympia delivering their sometimes hilarious Manifest Destiny to the Canadian audience. We're invited to join them in the Greatest Nation on Earth. In case you miss it the first time, they repeat it. And repeat it. Louder. (That's how you know it's the truth.) It's American foreign policy's kinder, gentler Disney-fied ambassador. They say ignorance is bliss and these guys profess a wholeheartedly blissful existence. All well and good, except their sketches betray a touch of Monty Python-ish cynicism and a...
What starts off promising - a dead man's cell phone rings interminably in a small cafe, and a strange woman sitting near him can't keep herself from answering it - steadily veers away from enjoyable and into annoying.
Highly recommended! Don't let the slightly lame description of this play in the Fringe guide dissuade you - this is a genuinely wonderful play mostly due to the talent of actor Giovanni Mocibob, and it's well worth your time.
