A Fun, Smart Play About Queer Theory At The Toronto Fringe Festival
I had really been looking forward to seeing Spoon. The mention of a play in this year’s Fringe that explores queer theory through the lives of a gay couple trying to make sense of gender stereotypes caught my interest. Happily, this play more than delivers on its promise.
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Martin McDonagh‘s one-act play A Behanding in Spokane could easily be a tricky play to pull off. This is a very dense work, a black comedy in McDonough’s style full of subtly interconnecting stories, shifting motivations, and the playwright’s characteristic wordplay–obscene, philosophical, absurd–that needs a team of talented actors with good direction and set design to pull it off.
Happily for Torontonians, Unit 102 Theatre, which is putting on A Behanding in Spokane at their storefront theatre at 376 Dufferin Street just south of Queen Street West, has done just this.
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