Category Archives: Edmonton

Three Sentence Fringe Review: Late Night Cabaret

By Adam Snider | Published: August 23, 2011

I didn’t know about the Late Night Cabaret until this year of the Fringe (did it exist in the past?), but I’m glad that I found out about it. It’s done in the format of a talk show, with the hosts allowing other artists to do a piece from their show and then be interviewed [...]

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Three Sentence Fringe Review: Princess Dee

By Adam Snider | Published: August 23, 2011

Princess Dee takes the story of Princess Diana and places it in the setting of an English council estate. For those already familiar with the story, it’s an interesting twist that allows the story to be seen from a different angle. As someone who isn’t a royal watcher, I occasionally found myself confused by certain [...]

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Three Sentence Fringe Review: Grim and Fischer

By Adam Snider | Published: August 21, 2011

So far this year, Grim and Fischer has been my favourite show and it’s not possible to do it justice with only three sentences. It has the playfulness and emotional poigniancy of the first 15 minutes of Pixar’s Up, and the masks the actors wear show an amazing range of emotional expression despite having a [...]

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Three Sentence Fringe Review: PsychoBabble

By Adam Snider | Published: August 21, 2011

PsyhoBabble is the latest production by Guys in Disguise, Edmonton’s premiere drag theatre troupe. Playwright and star, Darren Hagen is excellent as a washed-up actress  and co-star Trevor Schmidt does an excellent turn as the twisted and psychopathic Chief Nurse Wax. While performing in drag is a key element in what Guys in Disguise does, it’s not played [...]

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Three Sentence Fringe Review: Dirk Darrow: NCSSI

By Adam Snider | Published: August 21, 2011

We never learn what the “NCSSI” in Dirk Darrow: NCSSI stands for, which is the first of three mysteries surrounding this show. The second mystery is why the show was billed as a play when it is, in fact, more of a stand-up routine and magic show with a loose film noir plot holding it all [...]

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Three Sentence Fringe Review: The Hook’em Revue

By Adam Snider | Published: August 19, 2011

The Hook’em Revue is a very amateur burlesque show featuring, in the words of a fellow audience member: skanky slutty strippers strutting “seductively” on stage. That’s a bit harsh; two of the five women in the show were quite talented and genuinely sexy (and one of them was also quite funny, doing a routine that was, [...]

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Three Sentence Fringe Review: Tudor Queens

By Adam Snider | Published: August 17, 2011

Tudor Queens is sexy and funny, as a burlesque show should be, but it’s deeper than the traditional, striptease-with-a-sense-of-humour model of burlesque. Tudor Queens is the purgatorial tale of the wives of Henry VII told as a darkly comic burlesque show (and, frankly, three sentences don’t provide enough space to do it justice; it’s funny, it’s [...]

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Three Sentence Fringe Review: Little Room

By Adam Snider | Published: August 15, 2011

Little Room is a darkly comic coming of age tale. While it’s occasionally hard to follow, it is a greatly entertaining play. The playwright was 16 when he wrote Little Room, but it definitely doesn’t show.

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An Open Letter to Terry McKinnon and iNews880

By Adam Snider | Published: August 8, 2011

The following is a copy of an email that I sent to iNews880 earlier today regarding a blog entry that Terry McKinnon posted today. I am writing to express my disappointment with Terry McKinnon’s recent blog post “Football and Murder,” which makes a number of sensational claims while providing little to no evidence to back [...]

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5 Random Question Plus 3 More With Michael Williams

By Adam Snider | Published: August 2, 2011

This is a long overdue post. I’ve obviously slacked off on the blog in general, but in particular I’ve been slacking with regard to the interviews I planned to conduct with some of my Edmonton-based Twitter friends. Here is another in that series. Who are you? Michael Williams. What do you do for a living? [...]

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