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FESTIVAL CITY

Freakin’ Time to Say Goodbye

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Exiting the Zoo with DeAnne Smith's About Freakin' Time

by Meaghan Thurston
02.08.2011

It’s with a sense of sadness and relief that I must say goodbye to yet another festival. The wild and adventurous Zoofest has come to a close. Festival season in Montreal makes me feel like a two year old who has spent a month and half at the carnival, subsiding solely on cotton candy.

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FESTIVAL CITY

The Empowerers Strike Back

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Sarah Quinn's one-woman show Other People's Problems celebrates the nervy spaz in us all

by Meaghan Thurston
29.07.2011

“This is a safe sharting space,” declares the maniacal motivational speaker who takes the Zoofest audience hostage at the beginning of Other People’s Problems. Safe-Sharting? Sharing from the heart, of course. Vaguely reminiscent of Sarah Palin in a fitted black dress and maroon jacket, with her brown hair neatly pinned back as she spews advice [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Make Jokes, Not War

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Basic Training is a physical, profane, and poignant one-man-showstopper

by Meaghan Thurston
21.07.2011

It’s not stand-up comedy, but it’s funny. It’s a physical tour de force (if you’re sitting in the front row you’re likely to get hit with Ashanti’s sweat.) It’s profane. It’s a coming-of-age quest.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Feeling Cagey? Enter the Zoo

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Zoofest puts the spotlight on the wildest acts in alternative comedy and theatre

by Meaghan Thurston
19.07.2011

As a kid, the zoo was a place you went with your parents to have yourself gleefully photographed with a depressed elephant. The mangy, pacing lions were part of the charm. Not so any more. Following some rather vehement PETA campaigns, today the zoo is a place defined by more sinister connotations.

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THEATRE

Joke, No Joke

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Kim Noble, Zoofest

by James Gartler
31.07.2010

During the recently concluded 2nd edition of Zoofest, there was one show so overwhelmingly perplexing that instead of laughing about the jokes told on-stage, audience members walked out dazed, uncomfortable and even debating the legitimacy of the content. The show in question is – of course – Kim Noble Will Die.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Winged Panther Head Looks To 2010

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Zoofest Roundup

by James Gartler
03.08.2009

Near the end of her opening night performance of Playin’ With Micucci, the endearingly wide-eyed Kate Micucci went off-script, saying: “I look at it like a video game – if I get through it, there’s extra points.” One can only wonder if the same sentiment saw Zoofest organizer Lucy Eveleigh through the frantic five months [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Blurry Image Fails To Ring True

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The Girl in the Picture …, Zoofest

by Erica Ruth Kelly
14.07.2009

The Girl in the Picture Tries to Hang Up the Phone should have worked. It had all the right ingredients: A one-man, autobiographical show, written and performed by 27-year stage veteran Hume Baugh. And the subject matter showed promise: a man tries to come to terms with the life and death of his alcoholic mother. [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Panther Heads & Spitalotski Sisters

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Zoofest, Various Venues

by James Gartler
13.07.2009

Hear ye, hear ye: There’s a new fest in town. Hard to believe, isn’t it? One would think the last thing Montreal had room for was another artistic brouhaha. And yet, everywhere you look, from construction sites to websites, you’ll find the lime-green collage poster with that haunting, winged panther head. Zoofest has arrived, determined [...]

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