The Slip-Knot
written
and performed by TJ Dawe
The Slip-Knot is a one person show about working horrible day jobs: stock-boy at a drug store, truck driver for a dumpster company and Christmas parcel tracker for the post office. There are three subplots: a long distance relationship, an attempt to sell a used van and the ordeal of finding an apartment in a new city.
"If you could listen to a juggler, and if that juggler were the most accomplished juggler in the world, the experience would be something like listening to TJ Dawe in The Slip-Knot" - Elizabeth Maupin, Orlando Sentinel
"A cross between a Dilbert comic strip and a Stuart McLean narrative"
- Susan Down, Victoria
Times-Colonist
"It's a virtuoso performance. This is not just a lesson in rhythm, text and performance; it is also a scintillating explosion of imagination. Fine, fine theatre pulled out of thin air" - Gaetan Charlebois - Hour Magazine (Montreal)
TJ has toured The Slip-Knot throughout Canada and the US.
The script of The Slip-Knot is now available in print from Brindle and Glass.
Awards
Just For Laughs Award for Best Comedy, Montreal 2001Critic's Choice, Saskatoon Fringe 2001
Best Male Performer, Victoria Fringe 2001
