5 stars
TJ Dawe, "what, you again?" (he's everywhere at the fringe), co- wrote this 60 minutes of inspirational lunacy with Chris Gibbs. Fringe fanatics will recognize him for Hoopal and last years Gibberish, both top notch comic outbursts.
Now I put it to you that by the age of 25 we come to realize we can't know everything, some of us know very little. Oh, you have your areas of expertise, like minature plastic dinosaurs, all of them except the stegosaurus, damn Kellogg's, and we sent the ten box tops like they asked, and did they even send so much as a bloody note...as an example of the kind of lecture that Gibbs gives. So, why not give ignorance a chance? Plead ignorance. Drift through life like Manuel in Fawlty Towers, "I know nothing". Travel down the boulevard of Confusion to the land if Ignorance. Learn to chant the ig mantra..."duh".
We've all been to a self- actualizing, motivational, invest- now - while- others- perish seminar, at one time or another in our lives. Gibbs as Vaguen is an amalgam of them all. And then bit by bit his childhood comes out as a factor in his search for ignorance. It is painfully funny, but with a hint of edginess, not to all tastes, I'll grant. The ending is "striking", that's all I feel I can say, but the laughter carried on as people were leaving the venue. Another smash hit at the Fringe.
Ron Robinson
CBC Radio
