To be completely honest, when I walked through the doors at the Factory Theatre Mainspace, I wasn’t sure whether The Society of Skeptics, was a narrative or some sort of demonstration.

Show descriptions warned of audience participation and the description mentioned something about a reward to anyone who could demonstrate a supernatural claim. Was the audience supposed to bring claims of supernatural activity? Or was it a show about an organization called the Society of Skeptics?

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So you don’t really say no to the opportunity to watch a zombie clown show. Nonetheless, as I had long associated clowns with the likes of Stephen King monsters, and zombies with tasteless 80’s B-Horror, I was still unsure of what to expect when I arrived at the show.

Mullet, the star of Mullet’s Make-A-Play, performed at Theatre Passe Muraille, was (quite fortunately) unlike either extreme.

Clad in somber coloured clown attire, with a shock of surprisingly grey hair, some sort of green substance climbing down his white painted face, and a black nose (that fell off at one point during the show), Mullet clearly isn’t your typical clown.

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Although ELLAmentary is not drastically different from other awkward puberty coming of age stories, I found it funny, sweet and among the more lovably quirky tales.

Written and performed by Christine Aziz, this one-woman show is performed at the Annex Theatre, by a highly energetic, oddly mature “Ella Salmon” (nicknamed “Salmon-Ella” and other bacterial forms by meaner kids at school).

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