Reviews 2013
Reviews 2013
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by Dawna Wightman, directed by Ginette Mohr
Broadview Laundry Mat Theatre Company, Toronto Fringe Festival, Ulster Coin Laundry, 202 Lippincott St., Toronto
July 3-14, 2013
Dawna Wightman gives a terrifically engaging performance as Rosie Fudge, a creative young woman trapped in a stifling marriage. (She wants to be an actor; her spouse wants her to be a "normal" wife and mother.)
Wightman plays more than a dozen characters, most memorably Rosie's ailing mother and her husband's snarky secretary, but it's a cliché to portray the Wicked Witch of the West as her internal critic. The story itself is overly familiar, and the unusual venue, a real laundromat, oddly bears no relation to the themes or plot of the play. It’s quite an intimate show with room for only five audience members per performance.
©Christopher Hoile
Note: A version of this review appeared in NOW Magazine 2013-07-11.
Photo: Dawna Wightman. ©2013 Broadview Laundry Mat Theatre Company.
For tickets, visit http://fringetoronto.com.
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