Fringe Festival Web Report #8
Thursday, July 12th

By GLENN SUMI

Fringe beer tent Q & A

Q: How did Felicity's Scott Speedman look the other night at the Tranzac Club?
A: A little bit like a young Vincent Van Gogh, what with the closely cropped head. He was here to see his buddy Scott McCord in The Contract.

Q: If you're award-winning playwright John Mighton, what do you say when a critic asks you how you liked The Contract?
A: You say you liked it. And then when you see the critic taking notes, you clarify and say you liked "the acting."

Q: What do you do when a director whose show you've seen and disliked comes up and introduces him or herself to you?
A: Smile, don't talk about the show, chat about the beer sponsor and then say goodbye. It happened recently. I survived.

Q: Is Kristen Thomson at work on another script after her double Dora win for her hit show I, Claudia?
A: Nope. She considers herself an actor, not a writer. (She's being way modest.) Next show: Soulpepper's production of Uncle Vanya, which she calls "hard, hard work."

Q: Who's that woman with the petition?
A: Cathy GordonMarsh, asking people to support Bill C-15 about cruelty to animals in art.

Fringe Euphemism Code Breaker:

"I liked the acting" = "The script sucked."
"It didn't need to be 90 minutes" = "I was bored to death"
"It was very ambitious" = "The structure was all over the place."
"Oh yeah, I heard your show was good" = "I heard it sucked, and I'm not going anywhere near it."
"The performers looked like they were having fun" = "At least someone was enjoying themselves."