After a month and a half of crazy memorising and rehearsing, the
2010 Victoria Fringe Festival
is here!
PRETTY PIECES
by Charles Robertson
is the play that myself and Nicholas Pisapio star in.
The play is a dark drama and runs for 50 minutes.
The play was written for the girl. So I have most of the lines!
Which is crazy since I only had the play for a month and a half and Nick had it since December!!!
I landed this gig after the girl who was originally playing "Girl", dropped out.
I saw an advertisement that Nick had posted and I emailed him.
I got the gig.
A month and a half later, we find ourselves performing 6 shows at the
Victoria Event Centre
1415 Broad St
It has been an interesting ride!
Definitely a challenging, stressful, crazy, eye-opening, fun and rewarding experience!
We got reviewed:
★★★ Pretty Pieces - (Venue 5, Victoria Event Centre) Pretty Pieces offers a tense portrayal of two siblings trapped together in a kind-of impoverished limbo. Fear, frustration and suspicion run through a claustrophobic relationship that verges on incest with its intimacy. The brother and sister struggle to unravel the ...mystery behind their transformation from happy kids to dysfunctional adults. Eerie and Beckettesque, the semi-poetic dialogue runs in circles but progresses to a satisfying climax. Strange and sometimes disorienting, Pretty Pieces successfully creates a dark atmosphere, but occasionally misses its mark. —E.G.A.
I am very, VERY happy with this review as it is the first live public theatre performance I have ever done!
I am so glad I had the opportunity to perform in the Fringe Festival.
Especially in a dark dramatic play that I would not normally even have an interest in!
If I ever perform in a Fringe Festival again, I think I'd like a to do a comedy!
