Rosie Wood
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Licensed. Professional. Trained. Qualified. is wild, grotesque, dark, deep and laugh-out-loud hilarious. Alice Cockayne is a powerhouse, embodying six outrageous female alter egos, each with jobs typically associated with women. Through them, she dives headfirst into female fears and desires, pulling the audience into a world that feels both absurdly exaggerated and disturbingly familiar. The production…
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Sameera Bhalotra Bowers’ What Is Going On? is a joyfully chaotic hour of comedy that mixes PowerPoint slides, puppetry, stand-up, and outright silliness into a uniquely strange package. Fresh out of university, Bowers isn’t quite sure how to navigate the real world. Her show is part Sesame Street for academics, part surreal crash course in how to thoroughly confuse…
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Of all forms of comedy, standup is perhaps the most inseparable from the person on stage. Even when a set leans on topical riffs or absurd ‘what if…?’ scenarios – as Alec Watson’s here often does – it still reflects the unique perspective of the performer. So what happens when a life-altering event crashes into that…
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The shelves of improv troupe Beansville’s Video Store are lined with an infinite collection of possible movies encased within a selection of VHS tapes, each representing a different film genre. Even by improv standards, Video Store starts with wide-open possibilities: we don’t know if we’re about to witness a Western, a rom-com, a period drama, or a gritty film…
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At its core, Jonah Non Grata is a retelling of the Book of Jonah—but this is no ordinary biblical adaptation. Simon Kane expands the story’s universe with songs, jokes, tricks, hymns, and a magical choose-your-own-adventure book to explore themes of power, choice, existentialism, responsibility, and love. The show unfolds in three stages: Fight, Flight, and Mariott. The…
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Victor Von Plume, known off stage as Sam Clarke, is a natural showman — very charismatic, with eyes and eyebrows that speak as much as his voice does. Delightfully Dark feels like classic, old-school cabaret: one small stage, one piano, and minimal tech. The simplicity of the set works in its favour, and Clarke knows how to make the most…
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Ethan Simm’s VOICE is a play that could only have come from the mind of someone young and ambitious, with deep affection for the stage but equal uncertainty about how to authentically exist on it. Staged with bold simplicity, it speaks to anyone who has ever offered their voice up to an audience. Set in a drama…
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