Bingo the Show

After a mysterious fire burns down St. Agatha’s church, its new pastor and hard-core parishioners attempt to raise 4 million dollars of reconstruction money by throwing an old fashioned church-basement Bingo evening.

With cast members interspersed amongst the audience, the Bingo games (in which the audience do actually participate and win novelty prizes) are frequently interrupted by the naively sadistic Reverend Philip, the curmudgeonly coot Harvey, the chemically imbalanced Sunday school teacher Beth, and the doting Dot Winters.

A through-line about the cause of the catastrophic fire is contrived and awkwardly injected into the proceedings, but the more improvisational moments are a delight, in large part thanks to Mike Kiss as Harvey whose interjections alternate between zingers directed at the other parishioners and absurd “back in my day” anecdotes, such as his description of an unsavoury war-time version of Bingo involving birds and bed sheets. *Bingo: The Show* is a solid blend of interactivity and off-kilter entertainment.

_Bingo the Show continues until July 12th as part of this year's Toronto Fringe Festival. For more information why not go_ "here":http://www.fringetoronto.com/fringe09/indoorBYOV_listings.html#B

_Or you could check out the show "website":http://www.bingo-theshow.com/ instead and vote on the baked goods_