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Death in England

By: Sam Bobrick

Infamous Thespian Company / Winnipeg

07/16/2010 10:00 PM | Comments: 0 (including replies) Our Rating: Your Average Rating:

This clever comedic mystery by Sam Bobrick needs a firmer grip by its cast and director to make it click.

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Clocking in at almost two hours, Death in England needs strong acting to keep an audience’s attention. And this group of eight local actors (whom one suspects are mostly university drama students) needs to have a keener understanding of comedy, not to mention voice projection, before tackling it.

Much of the script’s very English wit is lost in the shuffle, such as when Death finds himself in the wrong house of an intended victim and then discovers Life has taken his place in the death business.

The troupe would have been better-served working more on pacing than on their credible English accents, although the show’s stand-out, Paige Pooley as ditzy maid Jane, shows there is plenty of potential in this fledgling troupe.

— Barb Stewart

From the official Fringe Festival program:

Grab Death by the throat in Bobrick's Death in England, with jolts of Monty Python and twists of Agatha Christie. Death is the victim in an errie, absurd moment, when you can beat Death at his own game.

Join the Infamous Thespian Company in opening the door to the macabre. Anything is possible, when Death takes a holiday in England.

Warnings: Language, Strobe Lights, Herbal Cigarettes
RECOMMENDED: General Audience

120 min.

MTC Mainstage (Venue 1), to July 24

Tickets: $10
Discount Tickets: $7 for Students, High School, University Students: GOCards/High School ID, current University ID needed at door
Under no one under 5 years old not admitted.

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