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- Joanna Bowen
Out Cast Theatre’s latest offering melds hilarity with anguish. You think, perhaps they shouldn’t be so funny under the shadow of a loved one’s death.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Wally is a fridge salesman. We think he is one thing, a loud wisecracking ex-pat American, but soon it becomes apparent that there is more to him - he is an erudite eccentric, given life by the ebullient performance of Bill Ten Eyck.
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- Joanna Bowen
Dwelling on the performance for days afterwards, I still feel a great ambiguity. The play lacks coherence.
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- Joanna Bowen
Dead Man’s Cell Phone is vivid through its accuracy and humour, which is couched in the magic realism of Sarah Ruhl’s writing.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Worthiness of topic doesn’t a piece of theatre make; Slut ought to be much more interesting than it is.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Blood manages to make a theatrical experience accessible yet still ask the large, serious questions about being human and being a member of society.
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- Danu Poyner
As a musical form, the waltz turns hand-in-hand with contradiction. Its graceful sophistication and sweeping optimism seem to score the advance of human progress as it glides effortlessly across history's page.
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