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- 1play = Tired Cliches
2name = Rona Wronker
3email = lost.city@worldnet.att.net
4rating = 4 Stars
5review = The comic and the percussionist were really good. The show had
its poignant moments as well as laughs. I liked the way it all tied together
too. Far from tired, there was originality here, and intelligence too.
- 1play = Tired Chiches
2name = Jill Royce Loomis
3email = jrloomis@gte.net
4rating = 3 Stars
5review = Funny and engaging. Very perceptive. I bet some agent will be
sweeping him off his feet!
- play = Tired Cliches
2name = Carl Thelin
3email = carl_eye@hotmail.com
4rating = 5 Stars
5review = fresh seemingly random comments about everyday events, gradually
coalescing into a surprisingly dramatic conclusion. Well acted, with a
zippy percussion score.
- 1play = Tired Cliches
2name = Malachy Walsh
3email = camiegal@slip.net
4rating = 4 Stars
5review = An engaging, entertaining look at irony. It was definitely worth
seeing. Thanks.
- 1play = Tired Cliches
2name = B.Wm.C.
3email =
4rating = 5 Stars
5review = Intelligent, funny, and engaging. It would be a shame to miss
this one.
- 1play = Tired Cliches
2name = Brewster
3email = david.brewster@kp.org
4rating = 5 Stars
5review = Wonderful engaging performance, blend of observation and personal
story building to a good climax, TJ Dawe was charming and hilarious. His
verbal skills are well suited to the 'beat poetry' format. The vomiting
cat and the one guy who presses the street crossing sign 2000 times kills
me.
- 1play = Tired Cliches
2name = Jay Martin
3email = scenography@hotmail.com
4rating = 4 Stars
5review = Good-natured stand-up from a nice young man, except it turns
into something more, something about how he sees life and how his life
is going. For example, a bit about how saying "fuck" isn't all
that bad relates later to how he got into trouble at work. Recent graduate?
Boring job? You'll appreciate this man's story.
- 1play = "Tired Cliches"
2name = Antonio Sacre
3email = tonysacre@aol.com
4rating = 3 Stars
5review = Big Sandwich Productions and Czapno Ensemble present "Tired
Clichés" written and performed by TJ Dawe, Music written and
performed by Yevgeney Piotrarovitch, through 9/19 at the Lorraine Hansberry
Theater as part of the San Francisco Fringe Theater Festival. Tickets and
info: (415) 673-3847 or www.sffringe.org
- reviewed by Antonio Sacre, staff reviewer for Theatre Reviews Limited,
New York City, on the web at Theatrereviews.com.
- There is nothing original about TJ Dawe's "Tired Clichés".
It's all been said before. It's all been done before. It's banal, overdone,
boring.
- Or so it seems at first glance. But what is interesting about this
Fringe Festival veteran offering (performing at some 15 Canadian Fringe
Festivals) is how the poetry and beauty of the ordinary and seemingly cliché
seep into the consciousness of the audience.
- Using a bunch of cardboard boxes that he front flips into from a wooden
chair, and wonderful percussive accompaniment by Yevgeney Piotrarovitch,
Dawe asks questions so cliché they become a "neo-post modern,
pseudo quasi avant garde" type of statement, almost like truth. When
he says "there is no need to hate anybody, ever" it rings true
and clear, rising above the illusion of cliché into a something
deeply real.
- 1play = Tired Cliches
2name = MG
3email =
4rating = 3 Stars
5review = A nice little "Beat-Poetry" style piece, with live
percussion that lends a very nice aspect to the mood... the script is delivered
with talent, and the seemingly disjointed bits all tie together in the
end. Some bits are funny, some have depth, some just lay there, but all
in all it works. Recommended.
- play = Tired Cliches
- name = none
- rating = 4 stars
- Play: Tired Cliches
- Name: None
- Rating: 4 stars
- Review: Brillant use of language and weaving together of disparate
themes. Clever, funny and thought-provoking.
- Play: Tired Cliches
- Name: James G. dewey
- Ratings: 5 stars
- Review: A rubber band man with street smart rapid risky delivery.
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