Remember I mentioned the Fringe? Well, it turns out one of our favourite SLSS theatre alumni is working one of the shows featured at the Fringe! I'm sure some of you older kids remember Mark, who used to act and work in the booth for many of our shows (no last names since this is the school blog)! Mark is the assistant technical director for the show named above and if you want some theatrical fun, you should pop over to the Firehall Theatre on Cordova Street in Vancouver on Saturday at 7:45 or on Sunday at 2:45 to see the show. It is based on Shakespeare's bloodiest and goriest play, "Titus Andronicus", but the premise is that Shakespeare loves the story and wants to bring it to a wider audience, so he decides to rewrite it as a musical comedy. If you read my earlier blog, you know I like to see a lot of actors on stage, and this show delivers with fifteen dynamic actors, dancers and singers. The energy and enthusiasm of the performers is really appealing and I was laughing and tapping my foot throughout the show. And it looks and sounds fabulous (due to Mark's skill, I'm sure -- he's very good at what he does). There is a live musical combo on stage to accompany the actors and the script sticks to the basic story (very difficult when trying to turn it into a comedy) with a few remediations to make it a little less horrible. It's 90 minutes of laughs and fun and it's going to rain most of the weekend, so it's a perfect time to take in a play.
Make sure you tell Mark "Ms. Kosar sent me"!
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