DUCK DUCK MOOSE (Vancouver Fringe)

DUCK DUCK MOOSE (Vancouver Fringe)

by | Sep 6, 2025 | Review

To make improv work, you need three things: audience goodwill, creative players, and a format that allows them to shine. Goodwill was flowing when I saw Duck Duck Moose and every one of the players had a moment or two in which they showed their potential. But the...
FREE KITTENS (Vancouver Fringe)

FREE KITTENS (Vancouver Fringe)

by | Sep 6, 2025 | Review

I took part in the standing ovation (rarely happens). I bought the T-shirt (never happens). I loved this show. Megan Milton’s comic monologue is about being an “abortion survivor”, somebody who believes her high-school-age mom wasn’t prepared to have kids and should...
EMIL AMOK: 69 (Vancouver Fringe)

EMIL AMOK: 69 (Vancouver Fringe)

by | Sep 5, 2025 | Review

There are riches in Emil Amok: 69, but you’ve got to negotiate a lot of clutter to get to them. In his anecdotal stand-up set, writer and performer Emil Amok Guillermo adopts an alienatingly hyperactive persona, his delivery is all over the place, and many of his...
WITCH WITH HER SKIRT ON FIRE (Vancouver Fringe)

WITCH WITH HER SKIRT ON FIRE (Vancouver Fringe)

by | Sep 5, 2025 | Review

Writer/performer Megan Markham’s solo show consists of a series of fairytale-like stories about witches and witchcraft. The imagery and ideas are often charmingly inventive: the library at the centre of the universe that contains every book ever written; the lead...
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG: GOES RIGHT

THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG: GOES RIGHT

by | Aug 16, 2025 | Review

Farce is so difficult. You need significant chops to pull it off, so a non-Equity production of The Play That Goes Wrong struck me as a dicey proposition, but this creative team is clearly drawing on a huge treasure chest of non-Equity experience. They’re rocking this...