Tag Archive for the term: montreal fringe (Page: 2)

Review Haiku:
Twenty five really
good minutes sandwiched between
five and five bad ones
The writer’s creative process is rarely a fascinating one. Especially when the writer is blocked up and hating himself. Indeed, that much blocking going on on that legendary improv stage was a downright crime.
Once the blocking was over and the writer finally picked a story [...]

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 [...]

It is within the first scene of LARD, as its charismatic and corpulent cast members belt out their take on Grease’s infamous “Tell Me More,” that one quickly gets why Big Moves has already been the recipient of Spirit of the Fringe Award.
Thing is; they get it.
Conscious of the hokey, feel-good conventions of a [...]

Review Haiku:
about as funny
as you can get when putting
on a cancer play
Good acting. Good writing. Good performance. It makes you forget just how heavy the subject matter really is. The genuine charm and easygoing nature of the two performers sucks you in quick, and the sophmoric, male-bonding humour keeps you going. Unfortunately though, this is [...]

Haiku Review:
yes yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes yes yes
Uncalled for, oh won’t you move into my house and perform for me at my beck and call? You can sleep in the corner. It’s kinda comfy.
The follow-up to last year’s sensation THUNDERSPANK! a personal favorite of this reviewer, Blastback [...]

Five minutes ago, right outside the Indyish tent at Parc des Ameriques, Tristan came running up to me and shouted, “Lise! Rain! Go!” One glance up at the sky and the wicked wind turning the leaves and I was on my feet, running and bringing down the walls of the tents as others ran around [...]

review haiku
never has my mind
changed so much in one show
goes from suck to blow
By the fifth minute I was ready to leave. Damn my seat far away from the door. Damn it to heck. Why had I subjected myself to another hot sweater hour of bad theatre? The first act felt like a mildly interesting [...]

review haiku:
improvised silly
this train to cincinnati
happily goes nowhere
Amid some truly inspired moments, such as the titular “Argument with a Dolphin,” this train ride to Cincinnati (yours will invariably be a different trip) kept the chuckles coming fairly regularly. Watching improv is hit or miss, but Without Annette cleverly gets the audience to choose their fate, [...]

review haiku:
locked in a cabin,
sweaty crazy beekeepers,
drip and go crazy.
The Beekeepers divvies up a healthy portion of morose and not quite enough of a portion of hilarity. Both actors are very strong, and play their parts well, but Christine Armstrong’s role of listless housewife doesn’t give her much room to shine. The dejected [...]

It was a really epic jam session where people took the ”bring your own instruments” to heart in a big way (cellos and a bunch of saxophones put my tambourine and maracas to shame!) and a whole lot of photos from the madness are taking up space on my hard drive, here are my favorites: