Tag Archive for the term: angela potvin

Finally, Fringe shows for me! The past two days, I’ve been resting from a bit of beer tent overdose, combined with too much enjoyment of the weekend’s heat and too little sleep (y’know, “Can’t sleep. Humidity Monster will eat me.”). But not today! Today, despite the gloomy skies and comparatively frigid weather, I rolled into [...]

I rarely enjoy myself when I see live theatre. There’s the honest truth, folks. What can I say?
I get easily irritated by people’s minor acting flaws, and I often just have no idea what the heck is going on. Between bad writing, bad acting, the unpleasantness of post-post-modernism in general, and my [...]

Here are short excerpts from the first batch of performers at the last Monthly Mess. Included in this clip are (and correct me if I’m wrong) Chesley Walsh (Music), Angela Potvin (Theatrics), OK Giraffe (Music), David Schultz (Humorist) and Alex Montyro (Music). Enjoy!

As you might know, we decided right after our first Mess that we wanted to keep the show travelling, instead of staying in one venue. We knew this would make it a bit harder to build a regular following, but the exploratory and adventurous fun is worth it. We get to know the venues in [...]

Sorry to those of you who weren’t able to make the Assembly 2.0 shows this past Friday and Saturday and have been searching for the show lists. As I wrote on the Celtx forums,

Things came together so close to the show itself (the actors getting their scripts 4 days before the show, bands meeting the [...]

A State of Nature ran last week at Mainline Theatre on St. Laurent.
The play was a mock lecture by the fictional Dr. Freeman, fighting to defend his PhD thesis on human behaviour and mental illness. With interuptions from his challenging partner who forces him to consider his own isolating behaviour through an examination of [...]