Just got back from another night of Fringing here in Toronto. Yesterday we saw a one-man show by Chris Gibbs, who is fantastic and very engaging, highly introspective and almost dangerously (to himself) funny. We actually ended up there thinking we were going to see “An Inconvenient Musical”. Turned out we had mixed up the show times! No regrets though, this Englishman is a fine comedian and writer. In his show “Gibberish”, Chris takes his obviously natural observational qualities and mashes them up with a good helping of utter irreverence, all while managing to blow a couple of balloons on stage.
Tonight we caught “F[_]ck Off and Die: Tales in Teen Angst Poetry“, a one-woman show by Sara Bynoe. Absolutely brilliant! She takes you on a bright and cheerful journey through the dark and morose and highly self-referential jungle of teenage angst poetry. It’s absolutely, deliriously hilarious for anyone, especially those of us who were grungers and misfits, who were tragically poetic and poetically bored, in the ’90’s.
Tomorrow, it’s another day, another play.
Or 2 or 3…