Tag Archive for the term: theatre

Hey! The Montreal Fringe is over!
Indyish was all over the Fest again this year, reviewing shows, putting on shows, and just hanging out in our little tent inside the beer tent.
Check out some of our coverage below:

* The Sun Ra Arkestra workshop and jam at the Marathon MonthlyMess
* Show reviews: our thoughts on Fringe […]

The Handy Man Can is dark. D-A-R-K. The script touches on some incredibly sensitive subject matter. Thankfully, director/playwright Eric Weiss crafted a narrative that, while intense, never takes itself so overly seriously that it becomes a bother. Instead, the audience is given a suspenseful, edge-of-your seat “action play” where the words are quick, the gunshots are loud, and the ending isn’t set in stone until the lights go out.

Hanging by a Branch is probably the most positive, uplifting show at the Fringe this year. It’s a charming dose of magic, environmental awareness, and the art of storytelling. Yes, I said “environmental awareness” — but don’t worry, you won’t be hit over the head with any political messages. You’ll just have a great time and leave with a concentrated appreciation of nature’s infinite wisdom.

MAI, the Montreal Centre for Intercultural Arts puts on some really interesting multidisciplinary dance and theatre shows throughout the year. I volunteered on a show last year where the audience followed performers through a darkened basement and up spiral stairs before being lead outside to watch performers walk backwards down the side of the building.
Today […]

A subtly dark story told with wide eyed irony, a kind of perfect one person Fringe show that sums up the odd moral landscape of the relationship between storytelling and audience.

Teaching the Fringe

Keir Cutler is in the Fringe pantheon, he is one of those regulars who returns with a new show or a remount of […]

Review Haiku:
otto and astrid
playing rock and roll music
puts my heart at peace
The beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssstttttttttttt bbaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnddddddddddddd iiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnn ze world.
See it. Twice.

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Die Roten Punkte at Just For Laughs Studio
13 Jun @ 21.15
16 Jun @ 19.45
18 Jun @ 21.15
19 Jun @ 16.00
20 Jun @ 18.00
21 Jun @ 23.00
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Conversation with the writer director of Even Steven, a play in the Montreal Fringe 2008, about fighting in relationships and the difficulty of doing this love thing for the very first time. We talked about putting the show together, blocking to the stage they had been given for the Fringe, and the challenge of getting […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]