LIGHTS! CAMERA! ODD JOBS? is a decent solo show form actor Andrew MacKinnon about his personal journey as an actor. It falls into the category of confessional storytelling and uses as its frame the number of odd jobs a young actor has to take while trying to kickstart their career. The show had a …
Timmy, the Dog, Disappears is a dark absurdist Fringe sitcom about a family failing to stay normal Black Sheep Theatre’s Timmy, the Dog, Disappears is a bit of an absurdist sitcom—a play that messes with the conventions of 1950s suburban family television, creating a world that feels almost dystopian and more than a …
Entangled, a new play from Almonte-based writer, Jacob Berkowitz, is a story of two friends, two magnificent thinkers, with some seriously unfinished business. Who are these two individuals? Why, none other than Carl Jung (Paul Rainville), the famed psychoanalyst, and Wolfgang Pauli (David Frisch), the lesser-known, though equally influential, quantum physicist. With a first-rate script …
Two versions of Bat Brains exist; the show Sam Kruger originally meant for the world to see, and the one that occurred during Bat Brains’ opening. I can only review what transpired rather than what was intended; the show I saw was deeply personal and visceral, a magnetic hour of stylized movement …
Sam Kruger is a gifted creator and performer. In front of a full house for his first performance at this year’s Fringe, Kruger lived up to the hype set by his incredible show last year, Fool Muun Komming. This year’s Bat Brains or Let’s Explore Mental Illness with Vampires proves once again that Kruger …
Dr. Melissa Yuan-Innes is not an actor; Fringe is a new territory for her, one that she has appeared to full-heartedly embrace both in performance and, rather endearingly, in spectatorship . In her hour of storytelling, we as an audience don’t notice or mind an occasional word fumble or lapse in finesse; Yuan-Innes’ honesty …
Things are heating up at a Company of Fools! We are working diligently on our summer production of ROMEO + JULIET, and are just under two weeks away from our opening performance on July 2nd in Strathcona Park. But, if that’s too long a wait, we have two preview performances to kick off our tour. …
Darcy Smith’s one-man show, A Modest Attempt is a project very personal in nature. Beginning with taking questions from the audience about the show, a light-hearted atmosphere is immediately established. He then grounds his story in his background from childhood with both the Internet and theatre; the two intersect heavily in this performance, as its …
Harold Pinter is a veritable master of dramatic text; his plays are specific enough to be captivating, yet general enough to be deeply felt across multiple generations of theatregoers. Third Wall’s Pinter Stew is aptly named, an at-times quite jumbled re-hash of Pinter classics. Pinter junkies will be thrilled, while others will find themselves lost, …
In Beyond the Pale, Californian theatre artist Sherri Rose weaves an intriguing tale about three generations of European Jewish immigrants to the US and the experiences, both positive and negative, that they have there. Rose’s show, however, is not an ordinary narrative of migration, for a supernatural entity known as the ‘Evil Eye’ accompanies the …