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Archive for the 'Theatre Reviews 2006' Category

[Review] Top Gun - Need For Speed

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

There may be critically acclaimed productions, with perfect script writing, world class actors and stylish direction exhibited by many Fringe Theatre shows - and while Top Gun at C is lacking in those areas, it more than makes up for it with a KC-135 Tanker full of enthusiasm.
What we have here is soemthing that was [...]

[Review] Crunch

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

You are welcomed to Crunch by a sweet guitarist enquiring to your health and if the audience had fruit for breakfast? Enter the apple.
Then there’s the Adam and Eve apple, the Newton apple, an apple Jack called John, Wilhelm Tell and Snow white. There are songs, some funnier than others, and funny lines: “can’t tell [...]

[Review] Tony Law: The Dog of Time

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Canadians really are different, aren’t they? No-one envies the task of a little-known comedian trying to warm up a small audience early on in the Festival, but Tony Law did a fine job, drawing us out of the drab theatre and into a surreal world of sausage dogs, worm holes and hula hoops.
Two ‘country [...]

[Review] The Umbillical Project - Cut and Uncut

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

This project is about what happens when a play has two different directors for two casts in two different venues. Cut wasn’t much shorter and actually referred to the writer having cut the umbilical cord to the play she wrote by giving it to another director. She directed the Uncut version herself.
The play tells [...]

[Review] Midnight Cowboy

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

The story is well known thanks to the book, the movie, the poster and an unscripted I’m walking here from Dustin Hoffman. Add to that the knowledge of the Director John Clancy and the writer Tim Fountain, my expectations were stacked up.
I wasn’t even in a particularly good mood and the initial country tunes didn’t [...]

Review] My Name Is Rachel Corrie

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

This is the one-woman portrayal of a real-life tragedy: how a young American peace activist died tried trying to help the beleagered Palestinians. The drama traces the personal journey which took Rachel to Palestine, and ultimately to her brutal end under an Israeli bulldozer. A bleak rubble-filled urban backdrop, coupled with the [...]

[Review] The Dream Dealer

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

I think it would be fair to say that in John Kielty, the Fringe has found the 21st century’s Child Catcher. Playing the titular role as part Faust, part Bela Lugois and part Vincent Price, the Dream Dealer uses his addictive ice creams to capture the souls of the unwary school children looking to escape [...]