Reviews 2014
Reviews 2014
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by Briane Nasimok, directed by Peter Moss
Herculean Effort with No Fixed Address Productions, Toronto Fringe Festival, George Ignatieff Theatre, Toronto
July 2-12, 2014
Briane Nasimok’s solo show provides the kind of backstage view of Canadian theatre history that is rapidly being lost. Stage-struck at an early age, Nasimok worked as an extra at the COC under its first artistic director, Herman Geiger-Torel and into the first years of its next artistic director, Lotfi Mansouri. Over time he became the head of the extras and ultimately moving up in status to become a stage manager. He has a wealth of surprising anecdotes of on-stage and off-stage goings-on at the opera in the 1970s that any theatre-lover will enjoy. His absolutely deadpan delivery only makes his stories funnier.
©Christopher Hoile
Note: A version of this review appeared in NOW Magazine 2014-07-10.
Photo: Briane Nasimok. ©2014.
For tickets, visit http://fringetoronto.com.
2014-07-10
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