Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'tjdawe'
July 11, 2007
Dishpig is a one-man show directed and co-written by Fringe fav TJ Dawe, but starring someone else entirely: Greg Landucci, who co-wrote the show with Dawe. Following a popular trend in one-man show, Dishpig is all about a dude describing how awful his job is, although in this case it's a single job: the main character Matt is a dishwasher, or "dishpig," in a restaurant. Landucci focuses on Matt/Dishpig, although he also manages to......
Continue Reading "Fringeist: Dishpig Brings Home the Bacon"July 10, 2007
Confession: this particular Torontoist did not understand the meaning of TJ Dawe's latest Fringe show's title at all and was expecting a drama about two Frenchmen named Maxim and Cosmo to unfold inside the George Ignatieff Theatre. Instead, Dawe's one-man talk-fest is a series of monologues on the subject of men and women and the title refers to gender-barometric magazines Maxim and Cosmo. This show doesn't follow a story in particular, just Dawe's amusing......
Continue Reading "Fringeist: TJ Dawe Explains Gender"July 7, 2007
Jimmy Hogg's one-man show Curriculum Vitae is charming, hilarious and remarkably energetic. He begins the show in a dressing gown and with a cup of coffee and, over the course of an hour, proceeds to get dressed and ready for a job interview, all the while detailing the amusing circumstances of his previous employment with comic aplomb. As we mentioned previously, there is some similarity in subject matter between this show and Fringe phenom......
Continue Reading "Fringeist: Jimmy Hogg has an Impressive C.V."