EYE WEEKLY Review:
The day that this well-written and funny play chronicles actually belongs to Eddie (Timothy Walker), and Eddie is having a very shouty day indeed. He’s been fired from his lacklustre job only to be serially dumped by his shrill (and yet strangely lisping) girlfriend, his borderline-abusive AA sponsor and his wildly unorthodox therapist, sending him into the open, grasping arms of his enabling bartender. Walker invests sad-sack Eddie with enough dry snark to keep him afloat through one shitstorm after another while the whole cast digs happily into David Finley’s script, which is both crisp and clever. It’s a testament to the production’s darkly playful humour that it never descends into bitterness, even when the message is that only animals are worthy companions.
Play details & schedule:
by David Finley
(
http://web.me.com/finworks/Site/Donnys_Day.html)
presented by FinWorks from Toronto, ON
“Donny’s Day” is about a guy named Eddie. Eddie is an alcoholic,
commitment-phobic, rather untidy, chronically procrastinating wannabe
serious writer wiseass. Eddie has issues. And today he’s having a bad
day. On the one-year anniversary of another bad day. Which means
Donny’s Day is a doubly bad day. For Eddie.
Director: David Finley
Audience: Mature Audience
Warning: Language
50 min.
Venue 2: Robert Gill Theatre
Thu, July 2 11:00PM
Sat, July 4 5:15 PM
Sun, July 5 4:45 PM
Mon, July 6 2:45 PM
Wed, July 8 9:15 PM
Thu, July 9 1:45 PM
Sat, July 11 7:00 PM