The Particulars playing at the Toronto Fringe!
BY Will Sloan July 05, 2009 17:07
Editorial Rating: **** EYE WEEKLY Review:
Alex McCooeye does a virtuoso job as Gordon, a man who grips weakly onto sanity (and attempts to ignore the ominous scratching on his walls) by turning his daily life into a rigid routine, which he narrates intensely in the third person. Darkly comic and smartly structured, with writer Matthew Mackenzie gradually peeling back the layers on Gordon’s life and state of mind.
*****Runner-Up at the Best of the Montreal Fringe 2008
*****Named a Top Pick of the Edmonton Fringe 2008 (Held Over)
The Particulars by Matthew Mackenzie
Directed by Vahid Rahbani
Starring Alex McCooeye
Called a “revelation” by Pat Donnely of the Montreal Gazette, and a “sleeper hit” by Liz Nichols of the Edmonton Journal, The Particulars is the story of one insomniac’s struggle to maintain a daily routine born of emotional denial in the face of a home invasion. By day, Gordon forges systematically ahead, assiduously in control of every aspect of his life. But by night, the scratching which he has begun to hear in his wall’s is unravelling him, driving Gordon to the edge of cosmic desperation. The Particulars is about a man who has gone on with the routine of his day-to-day, without his reason for living.
Starring Montreal’s Alex McCooeye, directed by Toronto/Tehran’s Vahid Rahbani and written by Edmonton’s Matthew MacKenzie, The Particulars promises to deliver a knock out punch in Toronto as it did last summer in Montreal and Edmonton.
Join us in the Tarragon Main Space, 30 Bridgman Avenue.
Tickets are $10.
Saturday July 4th 7:30 pm
Sunday July 5th 8:15 pm
Monday July 6th 1:00 pm
Wednesday July 8th 2:15 pm
Thursday July 9th 11:30 pm
Friday July 10th Noon
Saturday July 11th 6:15 pm
SEE YOU THERE!
Editorial Rating: **** EYE WEEKLY Review:
Alex McCooeye does a virtuoso job as Gordon, a man who grips weakly onto sanity (and attempts to ignore the ominous scratching on his walls) by turning his daily life into a rigid routine, which he narrates intensely in the third person. Darkly comic and smartly structured, with writer Matthew Mackenzie gradually peeling back the layers on Gordon’s life and state of mind.
*****Runner-Up at the Best of the Montreal Fringe 2008
*****Named a Top Pick of the Edmonton Fringe 2008 (Held Over)
The Particulars by Matthew Mackenzie
Directed by Vahid Rahbani
Starring Alex McCooeye
Called a “revelation” by Pat Donnely of the Montreal Gazette, and a “sleeper hit” by Liz Nichols of the Edmonton Journal, The Particulars is the story of one insomniac’s struggle to maintain a daily routine born of emotional denial in the face of a home invasion. By day, Gordon forges systematically ahead, assiduously in control of every aspect of his life. But by night, the scratching which he has begun to hear in his wall’s is unravelling him, driving Gordon to the edge of cosmic desperation. The Particulars is about a man who has gone on with the routine of his day-to-day, without his reason for living.
Starring Montreal’s Alex McCooeye, directed by Toronto/Tehran’s Vahid Rahbani and written by Edmonton’s Matthew MacKenzie, The Particulars promises to deliver a knock out punch in Toronto as it did last summer in Montreal and Edmonton.
Join us in the Tarragon Main Space, 30 Bridgman Avenue.
Tickets are $10.
Saturday July 4th 7:30 pm
Sunday July 5th 8:15 pm
Monday July 6th 1:00 pm
Wednesday July 8th 2:15 pm
Thursday July 9th 11:30 pm
Friday July 10th Noon
Saturday July 11th 6:15 pm
SEE YOU THERE!