Legoland!

Aaaah this year's Fringe Festival (in Toronto) has come and gone and I believe the festival has hit record highs in terms of attendance. Although this still needs to be confirmed.

One play that I saw was Legoland (Atomic Vaudeville) and I have to say that it is by far one of the best plays I've ever seen at the Fringe (and I've been going to the Fringe for the past 10 years). I missed it at last year's SummerWorks festival and when I found out it was going to be at the Fringe, I had to see it. And I'm so glad I did. Celine Stubel and Amitai Marmorstein play, respectively, Penny and Ezra Lamb, two teenagers who were homeschooled by their hippy parents and live in a small town in Saskatchewan. They soon find themselves thrown into a Catholic school after an incident they staged at Wal-Mart and after the fact the police discover a grow-op at their residence. Afterwards, the teens find themselves on a cross-USA trip when Penny becomes obsessed with a boyband after trying to fit in at her new school. Amidst the quips, the fine acting, and the spot-on directing, there's plenty of puppets and the fact that they used characters from Sesame Street to portray US terror alerts is hilarious!
If this show should get re-mounted again, you should definitely see it!!!