by Janine Crockett | Sep 11, 2012 | Culture, Events, Theatre
As a follow-up to Christel Bartelse’s previous show, Oneymoon, in which her character married herself, Significant Me shows the happy or not-so-happy couple on their one-year wedding anniversary. Bartelse (whose character’s name is Caroline) greets the audience with a...
by Janine Crockett | Sep 11, 2012 | Culture, Events, Theatre
Wind in the Pines, one of only two Japanese plays shown at Victoria Fringe Festival 2012, is a unique addition to the festival. Based on an old Japanese folk tale, the play features the ghosts of two young women who are in love with the same man and are waiting for...
by Janine Crockett | Sep 4, 2012 | Culture, Theatre
Natural Born Killers they are not. Joseph Goble and Mily Mumford of Love is for Superbeasts are as charming as Cheshire cats as they frolic through a retelling of their characters’ crimes, which include multiple murders. The unnamed characters could easily be mistaken...
by Janine Crockett | Sep 3, 2012 | Culture, Events, Theatre
Tim Motley has combined magic, film noir and comedy in Dirk Darrow: NCSSI (Not Completely Serious Supernatural Investigator), and it’s no mystery why this show was one of the strongest at this year’s Fringe. Motley, dressed as a 1940s-era gumshoe, complete with...
by Janine Crockett | Sep 1, 2012 | Culture, Events, Theatre
In Alone, which closes on Sept. 2, a teenaged boy is caught between an exorcist and a priest in a battle to get to the bottom of what happened the night the boy was found hiding in the church. Playwright R. Matthew S. deftly leaves trails of crumbs leading to several...