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9/11/2018 What is theatre all about? Stephanie Morin-Robert Performance Society: Bushel and Peck, a guest 12thnight review by Todd Babiak | 12thNight.ca https://12thnight.ca/2018/08/20/what-is-theatre-all-about-stephanie-morin-robert-performance-society-bushel-and-peck-a-guest-12thnight-review-by-todd-babiak/ 1/2 Posted on August 20, 2018 Stephanie Morin-Robert and Alastair Knowles in Bushel and Peck. Photo by Thadeus Hink Stephanie MorinRobert Performance Society: Bushel and Peck (Stage 4, Academy at King Edward) Audiences can be so demanding. Before a piece of perfectly absurd performance art you can almost smell the question roasting in their brains: “What does it mean?” It would be uncharitable to call Bushel and Peck meaninglessness. It is, instead, a funny and winning and kooky search for meaning in a world — even a theatre tradition — that makes meaning too easy. Or something. To describe Bushel and Peck too rigorously would ruin its charm. Stephanie Morin-Robert and Alastair Knowles are Fringe stars who push themselves, in Bushel and Peck, to the fringes of the festival with a good, unanswerable question: what is theatre all about? They take it apart in inventive costumes, with playful use of sound and light, with a script flying everywhere, with Muppet voices, small appliances, and a hunk of plywood that deserves an award for “prop of the festival.” Liz Nicholls on theatre
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https://12thnight.ca/2018/08/20/what-is-theatre-all-about-stephanie-morin-robert-performance-society-bushel-and-peck-a-guest-12thnight-review-by-todd-babiak/ 1/2
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12thnight review Todd aiakPosted on August 20, 2018
Stephanie Morin-Robert and Alastair Knowles in Bushel and Peck. Photo by Thadeus Hink
Stephanie MorinRobert Performance Society: Bushel and Peck (Stage 4, Academy at King Edward)
Audiences can be so demanding. Before a piece of perfectly absurd performance art you can almost smell thequestion roasting in their brains: “What does it mean?”
It would be uncharitable to call Bushel and Peck meaninglessness. It is, instead, a funny and winning and kookysearch for meaning in a world — even a theatre tradition — that makes meaning too easy.
Or something.
To describe Bushel and Peck too rigorously would ruin its charm. Stephanie Morin-Robert and Alastair Knowlesare Fringe stars who push themselves, in Bushel and Peck, to the fringes of the festival with a good, unanswerablequestion: what is theatre all about?
They take it apart in inventive costumes, with playful use of sound and light, with a script flying everywhere, withMuppet voices, small appliances, and a hunk of plywood that deserves an award for “prop of the festival.”
12thNight.caLiz Nicholls on theatre
9/11/2018 What is theatre all about? Stephanie Morin-Robert Performance Society: Bushel and Peck, a guest 12thnight review by Todd Babiak | 12thNight.ca
https://12thnight.ca/2018/08/20/what-is-theatre-all-about-stephanie-morin-robert-performance-society-bushel-and-peck-a-guest-12thnight-review-by-todd-babiak/ 2/2
Now that we are a few days and, hopefully, several shows into the festival, Bushel and Peck is a refreshing slice ofpickled ginger between heavy slabs of theatrical sushi, a reminder of what we’re all here for.
— Todd Babiak
hare the tor!
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