Blink  by Phil Porter, a Plosive Theatre production

After performances in the UK, New York, all through Europe in multiple languages and even right here in Montreal, Blink by Phil Porter is presently in Ottawa in its English Canadian premier which is quite a feat for this Plosive theatre production playing at the Gladstone.  Blink  concerns  human relations as they develop through  virtual reality in our current society where  we can no longer escape  I -phones,  smart phones, tablets, texting and all forms of mediated communication that have taken over interpersonal exchange.  Paradoxically  however,  this show, which introduces us to a brilliant new actress  who has been studying and performing in UK,  leaves us  with a resounding sense of the “real-reality”  of the stage  because she incarnates her character’s physical and emotional presence so thoroughly …

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Blink by Phil Porter

Plosive Productions

Directed by Teri Loretto-Valentik 

Two people can fall in love in the blink of an eye — and they can lose the connection just as quickly. Perhaps being screened from emotion (literally and figuratively) by keeping the relationship once removed is safer.

It certainly seems so for Jonah and Sophie, the two socially isolated loners in Phil Porter’s Blink, who tell their stories directly to the audience rather than to each other.

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