Review: (Vancouver) Promise and Promiscuity (Fringe)

For a good time...
by David C. Jones
@iamdavidcjones

Promise and Promiscuity is  a Jane Austen-inspired musical one-woman show. Penny Ashton is a delightful and silly performer having a blast playing about six different people in the one-liner filled story of a turn of the century young woman writing under a man’s name much to the disdain of her mother and amusement of her sister.

Review: (Winnipeg) Promise and Promiscuity (Fringe)

A Truth Universally Acknowledged
by Edgar Governo
@pseudohistorian

Penny Ashton makes it all look so easy.

In a nimble one-woman show, she alternates between multiple characters taken from the Jane Austen mold, distinguishing between them through her voice and mannerisms in such a a way that I never found myself confused or lost as I sometimes do when similar feats are attempted with less able performers. (Even her multiple bows at the end were in-character.) Ashton never seems to have any difficulty with these transitions, quickly improvising her way past a couple of flubbed lines, some slight technical hiccups, and a small bit of audience participation with a dance partner.