Don’t drink the embalming fluid

I saw Stiff and Sons by Aidan Gouveia for Bare Theatre Collective directed by Daniel Reale at the Al Green Theatre on Saturday evening.  I haven’t laughed so much for all the wrong reasons since I saw Death of Stalin.  The background is a failing family owned funeral parlour.  Darren Stiff is having an affair with his brother David’s wife Pam; an aspiring Hollywood actress.  There is much shagging; mostly in coffins.

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Christmas Carol at Campbell House

Where better in Toronto to do a site specific version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol than Campbell House (built 1822)?  Apparently The Three Ships Collective and Soup Can Theatre have been doing such a show for five years but it had never appeared on my radar until this year despite having seen and enjoyed other Soup Can shows.  So last night I went.

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