Fringe 2012: jem rolls: TEN STARTS AND AN END
Jem Rolls. Photo courtesy of big word performance poetry.
big word performance poetry
Tuesday, July 10, 6:15 p.m.
Wednesday, July 11, 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 12, 10:15 p.m.
Friday, July 13, 6:45 p.m.
Sunday, July 15, 7:45 p.m.
George Ignatieff Theatre (15 Devonshire Place)
“In the beginning was the word.” Once the lights rise on Fringe vet Jem Rolls, there is no stopping the flow of words that emerge from his animated presence. Through a series of poems, Rolls tackles subjects ranging from drug-addled acquaintances you don’t want to spend a weekend afternoon with to the nicest things anyone’s every said about our fair city. It helps to watch with an audience attuned to his freewheeling way of tapping into his anger at the state of the world and those who brought us to our current state of affairs. As for the advertised tongue-twister, let’s just say you’d be lucky to get through it once at the speed Rolls reels it off, let alone try to say it five times.