You Choose

So following Minimum I made it to Tarragon Theatre with about two minutes to spare to see You Choose; an improvised murder mystery from the Howland Company. The show is created by Ruth Goodwin and Liz Johnston. M. Thibidault, owner of a country hotel, has invited some friends for dinner but shortly before the meal commences he is found murdered. It must be one of the guests or a member of the hotel staff. So far, so Christie but here’s the schtick. The cast draw lots to determine what character they will play and we, the audience, choose the murderer. The only members of the cast who know the murderer’s identity are the killer and the concierge/facilitator who moves the action forward with a series of prompts.

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Minimum

My first show at the Fringe this year was Minimum, by Victoria Sullivan, presented at Factory Theatre by Be Victorious Productions. Simon has just been elected Premier of Ontario by a landslide based on cleaning up the youth demographic by campaigning mainly on TikTok. Unfortunately on his first day in office a video of him, stoned and in his underwear, carousing with a bunch of female McMaster med students goes viral. In the video he promises, if elected, to live on minimum wage. When Saint Taylor Swift dogpiles on the video challenging him to do so there is no way back. It’s tricky. He has expensive tastes and an even more expensive wife (she owns a Tasmanian Tiger fur coat) who promptly leaves him.

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