Fringe 2012: A Madhouse Dramedy
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Stage Mage
Wednesday, July 4, 7 p.m.
Sunday, July 8, 11 p.m.
Monday, July 9, 4:45 p.m.
Wednesday, July 11, 9:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 12, 12 p.m.
Friday, July 13, 8 p.m.
Saturday, July 14, 1:45 p.m.
St. Vladimir’s Theatre (620 Spadina Avenue)
Filled with great physical comedy and a ton of jokes about necrophilia, A Madhouse Dramedy has a lot to recommend it. Unfortunately, it’s held back by a couple of fairly major flaws. It makes sense to have an easy device to separate the sane from less-than-sane in a play about madness, but having characters speak in almost Seussian word salads gets grating after about five minutes. Between that and an excruciatingly slow start, a play that had the potential to be awesome winds up being merely alright.
