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The Buzz – Reviews – 2015
Shirley Gnome: Real Mature
Heartichoke Arts—Eckhardt Gramatté
I really enjoyed Shirley Gnome’s performance, and yes she can really sing and play guitar. Her songs are of a more adult nature but are all fun and very well written.
As long as you are not easily offended, I highly recommend her show.
Murray Hunter
Journeys
Sheep On A Mission—MTC Up the Alley
This is a nostalgic romp through a couple’s relationship—first glances, dating, fighting, and parting—presented through original, folky music, performed live, in combination with poetry.
It’s a little preachy at times, but heartwarming all over.
D. Penner
Hot Pink Bits with Penny Ashton
Penash Productions—WECC Ventura Hall
Holy heck this show was hot! Sex is the name of the game with this show and there was a lot of it.
Penny created a safe environment where she educated us about the sex trade but did so using dick puppets, audience stripping, porn scripts, and a quiz show. This show surprised me (especially when she climbed onto 3 of the male audience members) and I liked it a lot.
This show is absolutely not for the less open-minded individual. It’s definitely not for the faint of heart and requires a very open mind with regards to sex. Anyone else should follow their curiosity and come learn a thing or two about sex.
Kaitlyn Kriss
Subway Stations of the Cross
Ins Choi—Planetarium
What can I say? It was amazing. He’s a wonderful speaker, switching between characters, and from storytelling to poetry seamlessly
His poetry is chilling, and completely draws you in. When he’s not performing his poetry, he’s a hilarious storyteller and seems extremely easygoing. It’s easy to laugh at his jokes. He makes everything feel familiar. Even during an on-stage costume change, I was totally immersed in his actions.
Arden Pruden
UnCouth
The Cinematheque—Windy Wynazz
Ok, UnCouth is the perfect title for this mishmash of gags and antics. While some of it isn’t that funny, some of it gets you laughing—and it’s the kind of humour where there’s no earthly reason why you should be laughing.
If I describe the show to any of my friends, they’d frown and tell me it’s not funny. And yet, a lot of it works, to the point where she got a standing ovation (well, from two people anyway).
The finale is a lot of fun, but it’s always fun for me to throw things at people!
Ray Yuen
Happiness™
May Can Theatre—Rudolf Rocker
I still don’t know how to feel about this show. It started out as hilarious with some rather high kicks and acrobatics as they greeted us all.
Then it became sad as the characters started to reveal themselves. I laughed a lot but it also left me thinking a lot about my own numbness in certain situations.
The two actors were very versatile and I really felt for both of them.
I did get very, very confused when the actors went back and forth from the past to the present. I was confused as to what point in the story’s timeline we, the audience, were in, and that really took me out of the story.
Kaitlyn Kriss
Hitler’s Li’l Abomination
Annette Roman—MTC Up the Alley
Roman delivers the story well and makes her point convincingly. On the way out, I heard a number of people grumbling about her perspective and her views.
I’m not saying that anyone’s right or wrong, but eliciting discourse as soon as the curtain falls is a sign of a good, evocative material.
Ray Yuen
Hitler’s Li’l Abomination
Annette Roman—MTC Up the Alley
I just saw Hitler’s Li’l Abomination. Wow, what mastery of the voice, the craft, the nuance.
The heavy subject matter was illuminated by such courage, such strength, and such vision and emotion, it felt as if every word was 100% true, with no exaggerations.
This is a world-class show. You don’t want to miss out on this one.
Candassy Cross
Die! Shakespeare! Die!
Saucy Gal Productions—Studio 320
Equal parts mash-up, theory, discussion, and love letter, the play is delivered with all the verve and passion of the very best of geek conversations.
Deftly splicing characters and dialogue with their own fantastic wordplay, the performers re-contextualize several of the Bard’s best-known works in the telling of their own story of players trapped in rehashing the same roles night after night.
The plays within the play serve well in their new roles as vehicles for this new comedic drama, but there’s a sense that a broad knowledge of the original plays is essential to really wringing the most from the show. While the performers clearly love what they’re creating, they are also leaving it to the audience to keep pace.
That seems to be entirely the point, though. Jump into a discussion with a diehard fan of any subject, and it quickly becomes a spirited game of tradeoffs and one-upmanship.
Saucy Gal invites you along for the ride, here. Half the fun is trying to keep up
Ryan Hauff
A Behanding in Spokane
We’ll Do It Live—PTE Studio
Who even comes up with this stuff? What I wouldn’t give to spend a day in the mind of the playwright, this show is so ridiculous, I loved every minute of it. I was immediately engaged, right from minute one all the way to minute ninety. It seems like a tall order but trust me it’s not, this will be 90 minutes well spent. When a show can make you laugh at dismemberment, you know that it does something for you. Maybe not good things, but that’s all in the eye of the beholder isn’t it.
Arden Pruden
