Theatre
Art imitates life in a Fringe show about actors who work at a restaurant
September 15, 2014Sometimes life imitates art and vice versa in a serendipitous feedback loop. Pippa Mackie is an actor, and she also works in a restaurant; not the other way around. The line between these two parallel lives is becoming a bit blurred lately as she performs her new show, Industry: The Food Must Go Out, at the Vancouver Fringe Festival. “The vibe is a chef, a busser, and a server walk into their own restaurant, it’s closed down, and they want to have some fun — that’s really what the show is,” said Mackie. The show is performed at Edible Canada…
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Fringe Festival highlights
September 15, 2014The Fringe Festival is on its 30th run this year, but I only discovered its majesty in 2013. Its small-sized venues provide just the right amount of intimacy at a show, offering both the prestigiousness and closeness that allows the…
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Dramatic Fringe
September 15, 2014For Body and Light – 3 stars Slow and pensive, this show was poetry in motion. The poetry and music of Ian Ferrier and choreography of Stéphanie Morin-Robert, Linnea Gwiazda, and Allison Burn, combined to create a vivid atmosphere full…
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Comedic Fringe
September 15, 2014Anatolia Speaks – 3 stars Anatolia is a Bosnian refugee who gives a presentation to her Canadian ESL class. It begins with the basics of her new life in Canada: where she works (Superstore), where she lives (a small apartment…
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The Fringes of SFU
September 2, 2014The Vancouver Fringe Festival is an annual event featuring over 700 performances, 80 shows, and 89 artists taking to stages in the Granville Island and downtown areas. Everything from poetry to improv and musicals to crime thrillers will be featured…
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The United Players get Scandalous
September 2, 2014Promising to be “a glimpse into a part of our history,” The United Players production of the classic School for Scandal will open on September 5. Written in 1777 by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, this play takes the intrigue of creating…
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