Corporations have been under heavy scrutiny in recent times, at least since the heyday of the global Occupy movement in 2011. In light of both this and the numerous public controversies that have surrounded the dominant Starbucks brand (such as racial profiling in the US and exploitive working conditions in Africa), a coffee-chain is an …
photo Andrew Alexander Nicholas Arnott’s one-man performance of ARNOTT: A Masterclass in Good Theatring, is laudable in his ability to craft a convincing, though entirely fabricated, personality. Donning the accent of a half-English, half-German actor called Niklaus Arnott, the masterclass begins as an unorthodox lesson in theatre technique. Each performance focuses on a different aspect …
Not: A Bev Oda Memoir Photo thanks to the Ottawa Fringe Festival Clara Madrenas’s one-woman production of Not: A Bev Oda Memoir is easily one of the most inventive and genuinely funny parody skits on offer at the Fringe this season. The London, ON-based performer duly entertains at singing, guitar playing and acting, making …
Giddily tiptoeing about the room in a sequin unitard and matching headpiece, a peculiar Englishman asks, “Is there a wizard in the room?”. This is the question which Oli Weatherly, Gaulier-trained clown and the show’s creator, seeks to answer each time he performs this highly absurd and much enchanting one-man piece.
A box set, a couch, a nuclear family, a dinner party; we have seen this show before, or so we think. Timmy, the Dog, Disappears, is a wickedly funny comedy by Martin Dockery, presented by Black Sheep Theatre. It is difficult to describe this show without peppering in spoilers, but in short, do not let …
Mental health is a topic much discussed in contemporary media and culture, and as such, is an appropriate one to explore in the theatre. While Hamda Elmi’s self-created play Get Well Soon cracks open the door to an important conversation, it does not go far enough in detailing the implications of the scenario that it …
Solo shows are Fringe’s bread and butter and offer an excellent vehicle to explore in-depth a singular, idiosyncratic character. With the Yukon Artists Collective Theatre from Whitehorse, playwright and actor Doug Rutherford does exactly that in The Last President of Canada, a monologue delivered by Paul Chartier, the real-life figure who tried to blow …
Stick or Wizard? is an old-school theatre clown show that brings the audience onto the stage for an endearing story-telling show that will have you leaving happy. London, UK-based theatre creator Oli Weatherly hits all the marks on good theatre clowning—the audience laughs at him and with him, but we’re also left laughing at …
Beans of Furyis a hilarious comedy about the last coffeeshop after the apocalypseBeans of Furyis a comedy built on an interesting premise—what it’s like to work for a coffeeshop in a post-apocalyptic world. On a planet ravaged by floods and fires, one of the last remaining coffeeshops is actually a pretty hilarious place. Show creator …
Good detective stories are always entertaining, perhaps none more so than Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic Sherlock Holmes stories. The rendition of two specific stories, “The Red-Headed League” and “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”, by seasoned performers John D. Huston and Kenneth Brown, in association with Winnipeg Thespian Fellowship Productions, is both engaging and impressive …