EYE WEEKLY Review:
Acknowledging, of course, that we’ve already put 36 Little Plays About Hopeless Girls on our cover, it’s undeniably one of the best Fringe productions you’ll see. Ambitious and creative, this 13-actress show mines the conflicted/insane/hilarious/obsessive universe of modern women, dealing with the post-traumatic stress of the post-university years. Self-aware and bitingly honest, it skewers everything, from societal expectations to career ambitions, making effective use of the large cast, clever choreography, MIDI-rendered ’90s hits and brilliantly Spartan cardboard props. The closest thing to George Saunders’ absurdist insight to grace a Fringe stage.
Play details & schedule:
by Aurora Stewart de Peña
(
www.birdtownandswanville.com)
presented by Birdtown and Swanville from Toronto, ON
36 Little Plays about Hopeless Girls is a series of one minute plays
and dances with interwoven plotlines about baseball, credit card debt,
millipedes and Ny’pha, a helpful bathroom tissue collector from the
land of We’an. Directed and Produced by Aurora Stewart de Peña and Nika
Mistruzzi for the Birdtown and Swanville Collective.
Director: Aurora Stewart de Peña
Choreographer: Monique Moses
Cast: Nika Mistruzzi, Donna Maloney, Monique Moses, Cara Gee, Julia
Lederer, Liz Peterson, Lauren Bride and Laura McCoy among others.
Audience: General Audience
60 min.
Venue 23: Bread & Circus
Wed, July 1 8:15 PM
Thu, July 2 10:00 PM
Fri, July 3 4:15 PM
Sat, July 4 4:15 PM
Sun, July 5 8:15 PM
Mon, July 6 10:00 PM
Wed, July 8 6:15 PM
Thu, July 9 10:00 PM
Fri, July 10 10:00 PM
Sat, July 11 8:15 PM
Sun, July 12 8:15 PM