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Theatre Reviews

Blog Tues­day July 25 — Strong Start

Thanks to good weath­er and a sur­pris­ing­ly strong line­up of shows, the Fringe reached an atten­dance of 41,301 on the indoor stages by the end of Sun­day, which is slight­ly below 2015’s record pace.
Amaz­ing­ly, Sat­ur­day was the biggest day ever in the his­to­ry of the Win­nipeg Fringe, with 10,840 tick­ets.
Con­sid­er­ing the after­noon start­ed with a storm and there was on and off rain for a few hours, this is quite the achieve­ment. Usu­al­ly atten­dance records are bro­ken on the sec­ond week­end, not the open­ing weekend.

Help­ing Hand

Vol­un­teers are the life­line of the Fringe. Most vis­i­bly, they sell tick­ets and ush­er shows. But on Mon­day,
I saw them doing all sorts of odd jobs includ­ing pick­ing up garbage in Old Mar­ket Square and reset­ting sand­wich boards knocked over by the strong wind. I thank all Fringe vol­un­teers, whose hard work makes the fes­ti­val a suc­cess every year.

Strange Cur­tain Call

After a show, cur­tain calls are impor­tant for audi­ences to acknowl­edge the hard work of cast and crew. But, I’ve nev­er seen a stranger cur­tain call than the one after Mon­day’s per­for­mance of The Places We Go. The actors did not phys­i­cal­ly appear in front of the audi­ence, they only pro­ject­ed their shad­ows to the audi­ence. This was a shame — I think the audi­ence want­ed to see them and thank them for their cre­ative work.

Con­tro­ver­sy

Every year at the Fringe, there seems to be one or two con­tro­ver­sial shows. This year, Stu­dent Body (Venue 13) has drawn crit­i­cism on Face­book from audi­ence mem­ber Shay­na Chaya Green­field
who writes

THIS IS NOTNICE GUY WHO MADEMIS­TAKE

THIS ISRAPIST WHO IS MOST­LY NICE TO PEO­PLE

I have not yet seen this show, but I have talked to oth­er peo­ple who have seen this show and
felt that it does not glo­ri­fies rape. Any­way, there is a dis­cus­sion hap­pen­ing and that is a good thing.

Quote of the Day

Keep your knees togeth­er. That’s what I should have done nine months ago.”

From The Pre­his­to­ry of Moses P (Venue 10).