Ottawa Fringe 2013. My Second Smile with Noah Spitzer

This performance is clearly conceived as a piece of very important personal therapy where a cancer survivor is celebrating the joy of life! He dances, he goes berserk on the public transit system, he infuses his frightening medical experiences (radiation treatments, operations etc ) with a sense of theatrical humour that makes it all bearable (for the audience and for himself) and he sustains an hour of movement, clever lighting effects and an excellent rapport with the audience. This young man is a very talented performer who uses his instruments (his body and his voice) with great inventiveness. The material is uneven but that is not the point here. He has survived,  and it’s his personal journey that he wants to tell us, avoiding any pathos, which is also what I appreciated. It all took a lot of guts. A big hug to this lovely fellow and fine actor.

Noah Spitzer performs at Arts Court.