Theatre

A tale of a woman’s struggle with body image, Circumference is a dynamite one-woman play written by and starring Amy Salloway. A series of monologues strung together, there’s more content in this play than any other this reviewer has seen combined. That explains the notebook that Salloway references throughout the hour-long performance to keep herself […]

Leigh Ann Bellamy and Mike Sheppard play desperate siblings who feel the world closing in on them in this dramatic piece from Kingston, Ontario-based writer Charles Robertson. Set in a bachelor apartment, an agoraphobic sister passes the time away acting as mother to a child she wishes would love her back. She waits for her […]

Written and directed by Jamie Feldman, this satiric play tackles the issue of the reliance on technology as well as the role of a higher being in contemporary society. A great concept geared for laughs, Divine Mechanics only fails with a lack of comedic timing the plot needs to succeed.Andee Morgan effectively portrays the angel […]

Some wag once wrote: a farce is a type of play that critics laugh at and then pan. Not in this case. The Butleress is a jolly outing nicely living up to farce’s raison d’etre – to entertain an audience, eliciting laughs using broad humoured comedy, a ridiculous situation or scenario, played by shameless farceurs. […]

Before video, and way before DVDs, dirty ol’ men and chronic sexual adolescents over voting age, bent on keeping their hand in with the “love connection”, frequented sleazy movie theatres known as Porno Palaces. Every movie had its “dramatic” moments before its inevitable bump and grunt, passion-free finale. Ohh, the mental anguish there had to […]

3 Dogs BarkingSeptember 9 at the Khyber Turret, 1588 Barrington, 9:45pm, $9 This charged drama is set in a dingy Newfoundland police interview room undergoing renovations (and thereby missing an evidence-recording video camera). The issue at hand is the true nature of a murder confession offered up by a minor league repeat offender of public […]

In 1962, the celebrated American playwright Edward Albee unleashed on Broadway, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, his now classic excoriating dissection of a dysfunctional marriage. At first glance, playwright and director Charles Crosby’s Fringe play, A Mid-Life Marriage, seems to have taken the Albee play as a template for his go at examining a marriage […]

Produced by Right Pro Productions, creators of the well-received 2005 Fringe fave The Play of the Living Dead, The Slasher Play may not be the best executed play at this year’s festival, but it’s one of the most fun, especially for fans of the horror and teen genre. Written by Isaac Thompson and Terry Drisdelle, […]

It seems at every festival at least one play serves as notice of what not to do when staging a production. For whatever reason, Deranged Love took the unwanted prize on this day. The idea looked great on paper: David Hasselhoff – a caricature of cheese actors born to be skewered – goes to hell […]

Sometimes a choreographer has the savvy to bring into existence dramas through informative movement. Skills that are unique to one theatrical form, under the tag team direction of imagination and wit, can effortlessly transfer to another. In The Consumer Experiment, you can see this at work and it working well. Jennifer Spicer, who choreographed this […]

This charged drama is set in a dingy Newfoundland cop shop interview room undergoing renovations and thereby missing an evidence recording video camera. The issue at hand is the true nature of a murder confession offered up by a minor league repeat offender of public mischief capers. The twist? The arresting police officer and an […]

One of several fine productions to recommend at this year’s Fringe Festival is the exciting drama, Lear’s Daughters. In this entertainingly clever play, Brit playwright Elaine Feinstein imagines just what in the heck transformed three plucky little sisters, so full of personal promise and joir de vivre, into a trio of scorned and sour women […]