Kirsty Provan’s He Roars treads familiar territory with its portrayal of journalist Rose’s (Kirsty Provan) struggle as she pursues a relationship with her childhood friend Charlie (Sebastian Kroon) who is a soldier in the Canadian Armed Forces. The play charts their romance between Charlie’...
Adapted and performed by stage veteran Clayton Jevne, fans of Shakespeare and history may enjoy this solo play. Jevne has adapted his script from Robert Nye’s acclaimed novel. I haven’t seen the character of Falstaff on stage before nor read about him. By reputation, I believed him to be the charismatic, jovial, and bawdy mentor of the future King Henry V. In this production, Falstaff seems ordinary and perhaps it is partly his advanced age that has sapped the legendary character’s irrepressible life force.
Aenigma Theatre tackles the challenging and gut-wrenching Blackbird by David Harrower with some success.
The award-winning play is based in part on the true story of a US Marine who had a sexual relationship with a minor. Una (played by Stephanie Izsak) a 27 year old woman comes face to face with Ray (played by Francis Boyle) 15 years after their relationship had come to an end. While they were together, he had been 41 and she had been 12. The play is about their story, their perspectives, their feelings, their questions, their fears and the open wound of never...
The show opens with two people in handcuffs and mouth restraining masks walking on stage. From their interaction with the audience, it becomes apparent that the audience is a research panel studying the two prisoners. The pair turn out to be a couple: two psychopathic killers Dorian (played by Daniel Meron) and Eleanor (played by Mily Mumford).
The two discuss, through a series of anecdotes and personal interactions, the dynamic that exists between the couple and how they came to this point, having committed multiple murders together. Eventually their conversations bring them to some difficult points within their relationship. Dorian admits...
"Spilling Family Secrets" was written, performed and produced by Susan Freedman in true Fringe style. It moved me to tears with its sincerity and love.
Susan Freedman is spilling her family secrets but in doing so she is giving us a glimpse into her parent’s life and their love affair through the letters they wrote to each other while apart during the depression of the 1920/30...
Many fringe plays incorporate humour. Humour, when successful, makes people laugh and entertains. It takes courage to write and produce a play that makes people think and that is what Shake the Sheets does. It makes you question reality, creativity and imagination. Shake the Sheets is courageous and should be applauded for pushing the boundaries of storytelling.
Written by Mack Gordon, the play features Gordon and Kaitlin Williams as husband and wife who are struggling artists and trying to connect their individual needs and desires....
A collaborative project by Blackjacq Productions and Clockwork Theatre, The Green Room Theatre Project selects nine youth who get the chance to work with professional artists learning the entire process of creating a theatrical production. The Green Room Presents… is a devised play which is the culmination and final showcase of the program. Created and performed by amateur youth artists, the show is far from professional quality theatre, but it has its share of shining moments.
The theme of the show is growing up, and it opens with a vocal montage of moments throughout a single life,...
The Fringe program notes: "inspired by a real New Brunswick murder story." The play opens with the murder as a dumb-show (shades of Hamlet), a young man suddenly stabbing a rather older man, so the piece is not who-dun-it but WHY-dun-it.
A 17-year-old high schooler has conflicts with his well-meaning but explosive mother. (She is a single parent and I wanted at least a reference to the absent father). The mother catches him lying, then she loses her job and lies about it. They have a young woman, ostensibly lesbian, as a boarder who lives in the storage room....
When I first read the flyer I thought that a life changing on the flip of a dime story would be a morose journey fueled by emotion and probably unashamedly highlighting a few taboo subjects along the way. So as I settled in for what I thought would be a less than humorous play, you can imagine my surprise when the stage erupted with the charismatic and charming Megan Phillips. Watch out - she performs a one-woman all singing all dancing upbeat and funky rendition of how a spilt second changed her life! I speak about her as if she...
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If they are willing to do it in the rain – I’m willing to watch it in the rain. These young artists took on powerboats, reminding us that Vancouver is in a rain forest and the most dreaded of Granville Island obstacles – drunk rich people.
Made up of a combination of verse, modern lines and with a through line of the five steps to acceptance of death, Phycopomp is the story of Glauce (daughter of the king of Corinth and Jason’s second wife) who is murdered by Medea and preparing to cross the river Styx. We stand at the...
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