“This dark, dark comedy, part puppet show, part Grand Guignol, part song-and-dance, was totally entertaining. One of our faves in the Summerworks lineup, it was manic fun, wickedly performed by Celine Stubel and Amitai Marmorstein, directed by Richmond and Britt Small.”
-Jon Kaplan (NOW Magazine, Toronto CANADA )
“Legoland was written by Jacob Richmond and produced by Victoria's Atomic Vaudeville company, which regularly stages the best live comedy in the city. Directed with great brio and theatricality by Richmond and Britt Small, the show is a darkly funny coming-of-age yarn. This is top-drawer theatre: sharp, crisp and bristling with naughty ideas. If you see just one show at the Victoria Fringe, make it this one.”
- Adrian Chamberlain (Time-Colonist, Victoria CANADA )
“Amitai Marmorstein adopts a wonderful deadpan as Ezra; nerdy and nihilistic, he looks like Woody Allen's abandoned love child. Celine Stubel's Penny is so charismatically complex—such a vixen yet so innocent—that you can't take your eyes off her.”
-Colin Thomas (Georgia Straight, Vancouver CANADA )
“Atomic Vaudeville knows how to push Fringe buttons. This clever company from Victoria takes a strange script by Jacob Richmond, casts it perfectly and presents the resulting carnival of kookiness with such assurance that Legoland is one of this Fringe's must-see events.”
-Peter Birnie (The Vancouver Sun)
“The best show at the Fringe so far by far. A strange teenage sister-brother duo are raised on a hippie commune in Saskatchewan , become Catholic-school pariahs, and take a drug-fuelled road trip across America . "Legoland" is what the communards call the outside world. We get a hilarious view of it through the peculiar perspectives of these siblings. Superb script and direction by Victoria's Jacob Richmond and Britt Small, and great performances by Celine Stubel and especially Amitai Marmorstein as the weird, Nietzsche-spouting little brother.”
-Jerry Wasserman (The Province, Vancouver CANADA )
“Danish theme parks be damned. Legoland is the wonky tale of two creepily precocious teens-Penny and Ezra-and their journey from Saskatchewan hippie commune to Florida hip-hop bar to the stages of the Fringe. Wildly inventive, well acted, and laugh-out-loud funny, this energetic production from the peeps at Victoria 's Atomic Vaudeville and written by Jacob Richmond is an offbeat charmer not to be missed.”
-Michael Kissinger ( Vancouver Courier)
"Legoland was written by Jacob Richmond and produced by Victoria's Atomic Vaudeville company, which regularly stages the best live comedy in the city. Directed with great brio and theatricality by Richmond and Britt Small, the show is a darkly funny coming-of-age yarn. This is top-drawer theatre: sharp, crisp and bristling with naughty ideas.
If you see just one show at the Victoria Fringe, make it this one."
- Adrian Chamberlain (Time-Colonist, Victoria CANADA) |
