We live in a fame-obsessed culture. The popularity of the Kardashians and Paris Hilton point to the fact that we somehow value fame as a legitimate goal in and of itself. Nobody’s Idol presented by Alexandra Lean as part of the 2013 Toronto Fringe Festival attempts a satirical examination of our society’s fetishization of fame. Continue reading Nobody’s Idol (Alexandra Lean Productions) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review→
I admit it. I went to see Fuck Shakespeare because of the title. It’s certainly going to draw a larger audience than ‘Orihime and Hikoboshi meet Shakespeare’s vixens’.
It’s a play within a play – very Shakespearean – about two young men who are putting together a play. As the writer writes they both slip into the play he’s writing.
It’s to Nussbaum’s credit that in this his first Fringe production, he makes the stuff of staid futurists a smart laugh-out-loud evening at the theatre.
