Second day at the Fringe deals with some heavy topics in disarming ways yyc yycarts
What Whiteford and company are doing in Ophelia Rising is essentially what Tom Stoppard did almost 60 years ago in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, his classic spoof of Hamlet which, ironically, had its premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The 17th annual Calgary Fringe Festival is seeing the birth of another great parody, and it would be foolish to miss it.
One of the problems with Going All the Way is that Manko Bell, Underwood and Verbowski don’t trust their puppets nearly enough. There are times when the conflicts needed to be dealt with by puppets and not the two characters. This is especially true when Avery and Beatrice pour out their souls in phone videos. This scene needed to be done through puppets. The only time the puppets really need to be sidelined is at the end of the play for the final confessions.
There were also some technical difficulties on Saturday with the sound system so the voices of the students were barely audible. Rowdy junior high school students would be as loud as they are vocal in this show. Gibbs makes Karen a nervous woman with noticeable physical idiosyncrasies. This doesn’t seem to add up until she begins talking about her parents, a father who is a stodgy academic and a mother who is a free-spirited artist. She couldn’t please either of them, which made her so unsure of her own abilities even after securing three degrees.
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