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StranDEAD Venue 13 – Ragpickers
Theatre
A group
of Winnipeggers are trapped on a roof of an apartment building. As time
progresses, they insult each other, embarrassing secrets are revealed and
they realize that gossip is not always true. The premature death of one of
them causes the survivors to re-examine their own lives. Even
though the play is flawed, I still enjoyed the experience. The play moves
along at a good pace, in spite of its many short scenes and blackouts. The small
stage and humid venue of Ragpickers actually simulates
quite well the experience of what it would be like to be trapped on the roof
of a city building in the summer. Unfortunately, the play has too many
characters (9 characters, including the dead person) and not all of the
characters are fully developed. In particular, we don’t really find out
that much about the maintenance person. - Justin Olynyk
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