The final entry from this year's HAMILTON FRINGE ...

FISHBOWL Review by Meghan Stewart

FISHBOWL is a one man play that humorously depicts the lives of five very different characters. Performer Mark Shyzer captivates the audience with his uncanny ability to evoke multiple roles with the slightest change of accent or body language. A mixture of stories ranging from prepubescent to geriatric, Fishbowl relates to people from all walks of life and keeps the audience in stitches as they reflect on life’s funny little idiosyncrasies.

Hilarious from the very start, the story builds delightfully across a single act of sixty minutes, bringing down the curtain with an insightful conclusion about all of the “connections in the dark”.

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Operatic arias inc. a closing toast by the NAO!

Review by Danny Gaisin

July 23rd ‘10

Ask someone about the works of Rossini, Verdi, and Puccini and the answer is rarely ambiguous – it’s either ‘I hate opera’ or ‘I love it’. We fall into the latter category. Being unable to gorge on the genre at Glimmerglass (time restraints & financial deficiency),we look forward anticipatorily to the annual Brott Festival’s evening of arias. Last night was a munificent souvenir.

The concert featuring the incredible voices of Kurt Lehmann; Sinead Segrue; John Fanning & Emilia Boteva opened with selections from Verdi’s weird ‘Il Trovatore’. This popular but bizarre opera is mostly spoken-flashback to events that happened before the opening aria. Briefly, a count has two sons, a gypsy is caught leaning over the youngest; he becomes ill so she’s burned at the stake. (steak!)

l-r Tan,Lehmann, Boteva,Segrue, Brott, Fanning & Leclair