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by D. Taylor Scott, directed by D. Taylor Scott & Stephen Sharpe

Farm Fresh Productions, Toronto Fringe Festival, Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, Toronto

July 2-13, 2014

In this solo show D. Taylor Scott aims to recount what it was like to grow up gay on farm in Ontario with Nadia the cow as his only confidante.  Rather too laid-back for his own good, Scott drifts off-topic into discussions of current pop culture and politics so often that we don’t really get much insight into his main topic.  In fact, he is at his funniest when he compares the outdoor, face-to-face lives of kids in the 1980s versus the device-dominated virtual lives of kids today.  Since he acknowledges that he effeminate, we’d like to know more what the locals thought of him at work and at school.

              

©Christopher Hoile

Note: A version of this review appeared in NOW Magazine 2014-07-10.

Photo: D. Taylor Scott.  ©2014.

For tickets, visit http://fringetoronto.com.