MARGO
Kelly Stifora | for CBC News | Posted: July 23, 2017 4:32 PM | Last Updated: July 23, 2017
The performances in MARGO are naturally awkward and awkwardly natural
Rating: ★★★
Company: sunday dinner productions
Genre: Play - Dramedy
Venue: 8 - The Rachel Browne Theatre
Fans of indie dramadies about quirky, traumatized characters searching for love will find a lot to appreciate in sunday dinner productions' story of a broken anthropologist and the building caretaker who helps her find herself again.
Molly Blanchard-Cross' script peels away the layers of Margo's self-inflicted isolation while building a believable relationship between the characters and builds to a satisfying and honestly earned conclusion.
The performances are naturally awkward and awkwardly natural.
The problem for me is that the well-earned suspension of disbelief was too often shattered by slow cues, a low sound mix (there's understated, and then there's muted), and Edith, Margo's unnaturally large and eerily still goldfish - a significant and significantly distracting prop.
Fans of indie dramadies about quirky, traumatized characters searching for love will find a lot to appreciate.- Kelly Stifora
Perhaps I'm just being too picky; it's an almost-great show. But with this type of contemporary story, for me it's all about the details. I think Margo might understand.