The Show Must Go On! By Gabriel Krawec & Emma Stevens	Mad Tom Theatre Company - Winnipeg, MB	V.3 - Théâtre Cercle Molière
	The director is furious, the play is cursed and the incompetent detective appears to be from the 1940s and won't stop monologuing. Can this green room full of bickering high schoolers put their differences aside and work together to find out who, or what, is sabotaging their production of Macbeth? The Show Must Go On! is a fast-paced, farcical love letter to the personalities, conflicts and chaos of high school theatre! Cast: Sam Campbell, Chael Donald, William Gunter, Colin Parsons, Lizzy Suppes, Joël Garbutt, Emma Stevens Director: Emma Stevens and Mia Downey	Show Info: 90 minutes Genre: Play-Comedy Audience: Parental Guidance Coarse Language, Violent Content, Character pulls a gun on another character, mild stage fighting, stage blood, the word gay used in a derogatory way, loud sounds	Thu July 17 7:45 PM Sat July 19 12:45 PM Sun July 20 5:45 PM Wed July 23 11:00 AM Thu July 24 4:30 PM Fri July 25 10:00 PM Sun July 27 3:00 PM

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

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