Victoria Fringe Festival: Best Previews

Jared — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:51:28 +0000

Each show was given 2 minutes on stage to sell their show. Here are the previews I enjoyed the most:

High Life – Ryuzanji Company (Japan)
: A Canadian play written in English translated into Japanese then performed in Canada by Japanese actors with surtitles. They’re doing two productions: one set in Ontario, one in Japan. I’m not sure whether it’s actually going to be any good, but it’s cool.
History: Deleted Scenes and Extras – Nile Saguin (Toronto): Intelligent stand-up.
In And Out Of The Dark – Treehouse Productions (Toronto): The program guide describes this as “physical theatre” and the actress does indeed have great physicality. But there was also a bunch of speaking going on in the preview. It made no sense but it was great.
Not Fit For Flight – Modern Myth Physical Theatre (Victoria): Great avant-garde modern dance movement.
Nouns Are People Too – Dave Morris and Missie Peters (Victoria): Spoken word improv by the top improv performer and one of the top spoken word poets in town.
Oh Winnipeg! A Surprising Musical Memoir – John Pippus (Vancouver): The preview was a great little bit about learning to play blues harmonica, which Pippus definitely can do. I have no idea what the rest of the show is about (I hope not Winnipeg), but if you like blues harmonica…?
Today Is All Your Birthdays – Uncalled For (Montreal): The preview was really high energy and made no sense but dropped all the right phrases to get my interest: “the self is a narrative construct”, “Large Hadron Collider”, etc.

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