By Sam Mooney
Underbelly Diaries REDUX is very very funny. And crude, rude and lewd. Pay attention to the Parental Advisory. Don’t go with your parents. And go the the washroom before the show.
Aaron Berg has had an interesting life and he tells us all about it in Underbelly Diaries.
There isn’t much I can say about a stand-up routine without describing the bits which would actually make it not funny.
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By Sam Mooney
The Whores is a wonderful play. Not easy, a bit harrowing, but well worth seeing. The talented cast – Clare Blackwood, Hayley Fisher, Sarah Illiatovitch- Goldman, Jennifer Kenneally, Joanne Williams – is terrific.
The play is based on interviews with Halifax area prostitutes done by the playwright Charles Crosby when he was a journalism student 13 years ago. The interviews stayed with him and became The Whores.
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By Sam Mooney
There are lots of ways to choose which Fringe shows to see. This week why not go to shows in air-conditioned venues?
You can download the Fringe program, look for the venue and see what’s playing. I went to 2 shows at the George Ignatieff Theatre today. Stayed cool.
Keep reading for a list of all the air-conditioned venues.
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By Sam Mooney
One of the things I really enjoy about Fringe is that it gives me an opportunity to see shows that are outside my comfort zone. I really don’t like clowns. Mal (Rachelle Elie) is a clown.
Through the first ten minutes of the show I was thinking that I had made a mistake in coming and that it was going to be a long hour. Then Mal started to sneak up on me, I started enjoying the show. By the end I was really glad that I had come.
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By Sam Mooney
Me, My Stuff and I is playing at the George Ignatieff Theatre – an air conditioned venue! Today, that was a bonus.
I’m a big fan of Barry Smith. I first saw him three years ago when he did Jesus in Montana and then 2 years ago when he did American Squatter. I said then that I’d go see Barry Smith read the phone book. It still holds. In fact I could just copy and paste that review here.
We follow Barry through his childhood as he fills in the blank spaces in his baby book with old pictures, his grade 1 class work, his year book, home movies, a journal, and videos – the stuff.
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