Fringe 2012: Camp Schecky
Photo by Chris Frampton.
Sassy Roo Productions
Sunday, July 8, 2 p.m.
Sunday, July 8, 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, July 10, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 11, 2 p.m.
Thursday, July 12, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, July 13, 10 p.m.
Saturday, July 14, 2 p.m.
Saturday, July 14, 3 p.m.
Sunday, July 15, 2 p.m.
Sunday, July 15, 3 p.m.
Honest Ed’s Parking Lot (18 Lennox Street)
The plot for this tour through Little Italy on a big yellow school bus is paper thin and predictable: colourful camp counselors deal with a new camp director who has plans to change their summer haven. There are a few crush subplots and audience participation elements mixed in, but those aren’t the big draw for the show, of course. The reason you’ll want to get on the bus is to sing songs and soak in the first-day-heading-to-summer-camp atmosphere, and in this, the spirited cast (and their rotating bemused drivers) delivers. All are adept improvisors who deserve kudos for thinking on their feet in on-the-fly audience interaction, and just keeping on their feet in the aisles as the bus rumbles along. This is the sort of show that thrives at Fringe—a clever concept for theatrical interaction, away from a stage—and Camp Schecky‘s apt to have record enrollment over the next week.