The Show Must Go On!

Mad Tom Theatre Company—Théâtre Cercle Molière

A high school theatre love letter about high school theatre redone and remounted for Fringe, an environment notably full of people with cringing nostalgia for high school theatre who would enjoy the callbacks. The setting of the play as backstage of the scientifically worst staging of Macbeth was great, as the show collapses and the cast tries to salvage what they can out of it. The humor comes quick and wacky, with the actors hitting high emotion and energy notes at the drop of a dummy head. A bit long at 75 minutes, with some of the off/on stage Shakespeare sections being a bit muddy in delivery, these few weaknesses were more than made up for by the rest of the show, the aura farming private eye an absolute treat to watch bumble about.

Josh Fidelak