Mustard: Don’t let this put you off condiments
Hold the Mustard. On paper, it sounds like playwright Kat Sandler might have created an engaging world. Sixteen-year-old Thai has an imaginary friend, Mustard, whom she can see and talk to. Thai’s getting sick of Mustard hanging around all the time, but Thai’s mom...
Kim’s Convenience: shop here
Ah, the appeal of an almost-racist joke! In Kim’s Convenience, the play that spawned the TV series, writer Ins Choi finds the sweet spot as he tickles the edges of transgression. Appa (Dad) and Umma (Mom) run a convenience store in Regent’s Park, Toronto. Appa regards...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: curiously, it both works and doesn’t work
Because its heart is simple but pure, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is both boring and moving. Based on Mark Haddon’s bestselling novel, Simon Stephens’s play follows Christopher, a 15-year-old boy on the autism spectrum, as he tries to figure out...
REVIEW FINDER: 40—forty!—Vancouver Fringe reviews
This website has the MOST—and the MOST INFORMED—reviews of show at the Vancouver Fringe. Here you go: 40 of 'em. FORTY! 5-Step Guide to Being German ADHD Project, The Al Lafrance: I Think I’m Dead Angels and Aliens Awkward Hug Banned in The USA Big Queer Filipino...
BIG QUEER FILIPINO KARAOKE NIGHT
> Colin Thomas Let’s hear if for queer representation from communities of colour! And let’s acknowledge that this particular show could be a whole lot better. In Big Queer Filipino Karaoke Night!,Vancouver drag artist Davey Calderon remembers his first visit to the...
DYCK SPACEE – A SPY-FI IMPROVISED RADIO PLAY
> David Johnston * Five actors are arrayed behind a microphone/sound effects table, while a sixth directs from a tech booth. We're watching a live improvised taping of a detective radio serial that is equal partsnoirand sci-fi. In reality, it is equal parts...
MY IMAGINATION RAN AWAY WITHOUT ME
> David Johnston This show is spectacular, by the strictest definition: a spectacle, and not much else. There's nothing in the way of plot. This story fragments in this 20-minute-long acrobatics recital range from simplistic (a man watches anime...and then fights...
RABBIT HOLE
> Colin Thomas When Rabbit Hole starts, it’s been eight months since Becca and Howie’s four-year-old son Danny was hit by a car and killed. The driver was a teenager named Jason Willette. In its diligent examination of the emotional impact of Danny’s death on his...
BANNED IN THE USA
> Colin Thomas There are a whole lot of performers on the fringe festival circuit who lean too heavily on the eccentricity of their delivery. But it doesn’t matter how quickly you can talk, how much you flap around, how much you sweat, or how cunningly you can...
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