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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Review: (Vancouver) People Like Us

Earnest and well meaning but…
One woman show is pretty predictable
by David C. Jones
The setting is a mostly empty house with only a couch and chair. The walls become an army barrack tent halfway up. There are piles of sand along the floorboards in Amanda Larder’s set. On the couch a woman is packing her suitcase preparing to go to the wedding of her daughter.

We learn from Sandi Johnson's script that her husband was a veteran MP from the Gulf War who worked with mildly radioactive weapons. “What happened to Gerry, happened to me.”