Review: (Ottawa / Theatre) Much Ado About Feckin' Pirates

Much Ado About Feckin’ Pirates? Feckin’ Impressive
by Robyn Lester
@RobinRobynRob

It was with some trepidation that I entered The Gladstone for the opening night of Much Ado About Feckin’ Pirates. Directed by Al Connors, starring Richard Gélinas and Margo MacDonald, this play is unusual in that the content is largely improvised around a few key plot points and topics voted on by the audience prior to the show. Typically I enjoy improv, but whenever I go to an improvised show I feel the same way I do before a blind date. I say that prayer that everything will go alright. That there won’t be any long awkward silences. That I’ll actually find them funny and entertaining. Luckily, any fear on my part was completely unnecessary. Gélinas and MacDonald had me, and the entire audience, laughing the whole way through.