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“Fringe is the truest, rawest and most intimate form of theatre” – PRISM reviews the 2018 Vancouver Fringe Festival

Review of “Banned in the USA” and “Unscriptured”

Review by Laura Anne Harris

Photos by Vancouver Fringe

As soon as I entered the space of Gerard Harris’ “Banned in the USA”,  I was immediately disarmed by the charm of the performer improvising a tune on the piano. The show didn’t start traditionally with lights down or music swelling, rather, Harris (no relation!) began with some light chit chat as we waited for the show to officially start. Continue reading “Fringe is the truest, rawest and most intimate form of theatre” – PRISM reviews the 2018 Vancouver Fringe Festival

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“Dear Elizabeth starts deliberately slow, gathering momentum for a powerful finish” – PRISM reviews the 2018 Vancouver Fringe Festival

Review of “Dear Elizabeth”
Review by Issie Patterson
Photo by Wunderdog Theatre

Sarah Ruhl’s carefully-crafted and poignant “Dear Elizabeth” is an intimate piece for any audience with even a passing appreciation for poetry. Directed by Shelby Bushell, the show is constructed around a back-and-forth of real letters read aloud by Alexis Kellum-Creer as the witty, self-deprecating Elizabeth Bishop and Anthony Santiago as the sometimes arrogant, often intoxicatingly enthusiastic Robert Lowell.
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Love and All Its Vulnerabilities: A Review of Jasmina Odor’s You Can’t Stay Here

 

You Can’t Stay Here
Jasmina Odor
Thistledown Press

Review by Sarah Richards

Jasmina Odor’s short story collection You Can’t Stay Here is about relationships. Shaky ones. They flicker between lovers and friends, but also between old homes and new ones — most of Odor’s protagonists emigrated to Canada from Croatia during the Bosnian war. Even temporal relationships are disrupted. The war, whether lodged in one’s lived or living memory, is a wedge, “a chasm between past and future.” (119)
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An interview with Cole Nowicki, the creator and host of fine.

Interview by Jasmine Sealy

Photo by Olivier Barjolle

Last month I attended a free, hilarious, thoughtful, well-organized literary event at The Lido in Vancouver. I got there an hour early and the place was already almost packed, by showtime, people were being turned away at the door. The event was fine., an evening of “storytelling and otherwise”–a magical combination of stand-up, poetry, storytelling and music. The result is a show as unique and quirky as its creator and host, local writer Cole Nowicki. Here we chat to Cole about how fine. came to be and about the future of the show. Continue reading An interview with Cole Nowicki, the creator and host of fine.

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PRISM 51.4 SUMMER 2013

FICTION CONTEST WINNER “Remainders” by Shana Myara FICTION RUNNER-UP “Last Concert—Luzon, Philippines” by Erin Frances Fisher POETRY CONTEST WINNER “Bonfire” by Deanna Young POETRY RUNNERS-UP “routine” by Andrea MacPherson “The Birth of Prairie Poetry (A Fiction)” by Chris Hutchinson FICTION “So Many...

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