All posts by Lucy Eveleigh

Strange Mary Strange (Theatre on the Verge) 2011 SummerWorks Review

The playwright, Evan Tsitsias, said in the programme that he wanted to write a play about a character stuck on a plane with no place to escape all the thoughts in it’s head. He then felt he needed to add subject matter and he added themes of how sex is introduced to children and how that can affect their adulthood.

I believe he achieved this goal, I just didn’t connect with how he went about it.  As the lights go down and we hear the sounds of women climaxing and for the following 50 minutes that level of energy and tone of the piece doesn’t really stop. Continue reading Strange Mary Strange (Theatre on the Verge) 2011 SummerWorks Review

Scienceography: dances of physiology, entomology and psychology (Pocket Alchemy) 2011 Toronto Fringe Reviews


Scienceography: dances of physiology, entomology and psychology
presented by Pocket Alchemy  is a very interesting undertaking. The choreographers have tried to merge together the world of science and dance as well as focusing on the  journey of a mayfly. At times it works wonderfully and is beautiful to look at, but I found it to be too slow in pace to keep my attention.   Continue reading Scienceography: dances of physiology, entomology and psychology (Pocket Alchemy) 2011 Toronto Fringe Reviews

So I Married a Muslim (SanMan Productions) 2011 Toronto Fringe Review


Sandra Pascuzzi says that by doing this show she is trying to combat islamophobia that exists, which I commend her for. Unfortunately that didn’t work for me in her show So I Married A Muslim.

Sandra seems like a lovely woman and I am happy she found true love that crosses cultural  boundaries but I am afraid I just didn’t find the story all that interesting; I wanted to get more into the politics and social differences, but it was all a little too personal and not so universal for me.  Continue reading So I Married a Muslim (SanMan Productions) 2011 Toronto Fringe Review

reSURGEnce (Kinetic Elements) 2011 Toronto Fringe Reviews

reSURGEnce by Kinetic Elements was like watching an extended episode of So You Think You Can Dance and I mean that as a compliment. I hope that TV shows like SYTYCD encourage people who wouldn’t normally see live dance to go and see shows like reSURGEnce because it is wonderfully entertaining and performed by a very talented bunch of dancers. Continue reading reSURGEnce (Kinetic Elements) 2011 Toronto Fringe Reviews