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Hot Thespian Action Winnipeg, MB

07/15/2010 4:19 PM | Comments: 0 (including replies) Our Rating: Your Average Rating:

A full house on opening night for these well-loved sketch-comedy locals, and a deserved standing ovation at the end: this is some red-hot thespianism all right.

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Crammed into 60 minutes are 16 sketches ranging from the smart (a clever gag on security paranoia in the age of the War on Terrorism) to the silly, pulled off by four lithe and appealing comedians with rubber faces and a flair for the physical.

Some yuks are stale — gags on mom-jeans, for instance — but others are super-fresh: a show-closing tug-of-war between romantic and rapacious ballet choreographers isn’t just clever. It’s hilarious and perfectly performed.

I’ll put it this way: I usually sigh at sketch comedy, but I found most of this delightful, often laugh-out-loud funny. If you like sketch comedy, Hot Thespian Action will put you in stitches.

— Melissa Martin

From the official Fringe Festival guide:

Back with brand new sketches. Short, funny and to the point... just like this show description.

"(Hot Thespian Action) unfailingly produces wildly entertaining sketch comedy that gives the genre a good name. It’s not just the uniformly adroit performances … but the bizarre, brilliant territory this troupe’s fevered collective brain explores …

Somebody give these folks a TV show - Winnipeg Free Press

www.hotthespianaction.com

Warnings: Subject Matter, Language,
RECOMMENDED:
Mature Audience

60 min

Canwest Performing Arts Centre — MTYP (Venue 9), to July 25

Tickets: $10
Discount Tickets: $8 for Students
Under 13 not admitted.

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