Fringing! A Final Whimsy
I saw David Belke's new play, A Final Whimsy, on Thursday night. It was in the sanctuary of Holy Trinity Anglican. I'm used to seeing David's plays in the basement, so this was a new, beautiful and appropriate setting.
The play is about two adult sisters who are organizing their father's wedding -- he's finally getting married to "the Viking". The women's mother left the family when they were young kids, so the girls really had to bring each other up while their father, while seemingly a good provider with good intentions, sounds like he was clueless about how to deal with motherless children. (I got a strong "Les Muses orphelines" vibe from this premise.)
As someone who recently organized a traumatic ceremony of passage, I can tell you that David got it just right. (Is the process stressful and tense? Yes! Is it also sometimes funny and absurd? Yes!). But the play is about more than that. The focus is really on how you can keep people in your lives when they've gone away.
There's a lot of music in the show, which is a great way to show off the sanctuary's acoustics and the harmonies of Andrea House and Nancy McAleer. But I'd have to say that Sandra Nicholls stole the show with her rendition of "Your Cheatin' Heart."
The show is being held over at Holy Trinity on Friday, August 28 and Saturday, August 29. Hankies are advised.
http://www.fringetheatreadventures.ca/media/2009/Release21Aug2009Holdovers.php
(cross-posted to Facebook)
The play is about two adult sisters who are organizing their father's wedding -- he's finally getting married to "the Viking". The women's mother left the family when they were young kids, so the girls really had to bring each other up while their father, while seemingly a good provider with good intentions, sounds like he was clueless about how to deal with motherless children. (I got a strong "Les Muses orphelines" vibe from this premise.)
As someone who recently organized a traumatic ceremony of passage, I can tell you that David got it just right. (Is the process stressful and tense? Yes! Is it also sometimes funny and absurd? Yes!). But the play is about more than that. The focus is really on how you can keep people in your lives when they've gone away.
There's a lot of music in the show, which is a great way to show off the sanctuary's acoustics and the harmonies of Andrea House and Nancy McAleer. But I'd have to say that Sandra Nicholls stole the show with her rendition of "Your Cheatin' Heart."
The show is being held over at Holy Trinity on Friday, August 28 and Saturday, August 29. Hankies are advised.
http://www.fringetheatreadventures.ca/media/2009/Release21Aug2009Holdovers.php
(cross-posted to Facebook)