Fringe unravelled to reveal comedic treat
Any experienced Fringer knows to approach one-person shows in the same way a child should approach a strange dog - tentatively and with extreme caution.
The truth is that most one-person shows are friendly, if sometimes awkward affairs. But you just never know when one is going to turn on you and bore you to death.
Have no fears, however, if the show is Tired Clichés at the Annex. Produced by Vancouver's Big Sandwich Productions, Clichés is written and performed by TJ Dawe, a young comic obviously heavily influenced by Jerry Seinfeld and his ilk.
But where Seinfeld bragged that his show was about nothing, Clichés is most defnitely about something, but you'll have to sit through nearly an hour of Dawe's eccentric and witty observations about life, traffic, cat vomit and the night shift.
Happily, he's a bright, articulate and charismatic performer, so that is no problem at all.
John Coulbourn
Toronto Sun
Wednesday, July 8, 1998
