Fringe
It’s Just a Phase
BY Byron Laviolette July 02, 2009 12:07
EYE WEEKLY Review:
Naughty and a little bit nasty, the remounted and retooled It’s Just A Phase is once again a parade of queerness, full of line-dancing, gilded drag queens and a rainbow-coloured chorus of Fruit Flies. Revolving around Alexis, a learners’-permit lesbian trying to stay sane between her mother’s meddling and Toronto Pride weekend, the piece is enjoyably predictable but feels, at times, too disjointed, jumping between realistic depictions of people looking for love and hard (yet somehow edgeless) digressions into theatrical madness. Shining out through the chaos is a tender guitar duet that is worth the ticket all by itself.
Play details & schedule:
by A Marissa Gregoris
presented by Gregarious Productions from Toronto, ON
More songs! More Story! Last year’s Fringe hit returns. Are you still a lesbian if you’ve just been dumped by your first girlfriend? Not according to Alexis’s mom. This musical romp follows one mother’s quest to straighten out her queer little girl. With help from Motown, dancing cowboys & Fruit Flies we’ll find out just how hetero-flexible Alexis is.
Cast: Kylee Evans, A Marissa Gregoris, Richard Anthony, Christian Jeffries
Audience: Mature Audience
Warning: Content, Language
80 min.
Venue 3: Theatre Passe Muraille
Wed, July 1 10:30 PM
Sat, July 4 7:30 PM
Mon, July 6 3:00 PM
Tues, July 7 8:30 PM
Wed, July 8 2:00 PM
Thu, July 9 10:30 PM
Sun, July 12 4:30 PM
625 Church St, 6th Floor, Toronto M4Y 2G1