Look At All The Great Press Melissa Got...
...for her Lupe:Undone show
She was chosen Best of the Fringe ......there are three additional shows at the Diesel Playhouse: Wednesday July
16th and Thursday July 17th at 9 p.m. and Saturday July 19th at 7 p.m.!
For info and tickets...contact the Diesel Playhouse!
http://www.dieselplayhouse.
Meanwhile
The Globe and Mail's Kelly Nestruck says:
A recommendation: Lupe: Undone,which takes place behind Honest Ed's at Bloor and Bathurst, is aloosely structured delight. It stars Melissa D'Agostino as her Latinaclown character, Lupe, who fled revolution in Guadalupe to come toToronto 'where the streets are played with gold'. She has set up aboudoir behind Honest Ed's where she is waiting for her lover, theatreproducer David Mirvish, who she met while working the phones atTicketKing. When he stands her up, she passes the time chatting withaudience about her love troubles, feeding us tortilla chips and salsa,and performing a dances to songs by Gloria Estefan and Lionel Ritchie.It's silly, it's funny, it's the kind of show you are only likely to see at the Fringe.
NOW Magazine: NNNN and Critic's Pick
The ever-hopeful Lupe (Melissa D'Agostino) plans a tryst with her lover David Mirvish (yes, that DavidMirvish) in the alleyway behind Honest Ed's, but the audience turns upinstead of her paramour. Lots of funny clown work and some touchingmoments as D'Agostino plays with audience and serves us chips andsalsa. Olé, as Lupe would say.
blogto.com says:
Every girl in Toronto dreams of landing a Mirvish; don't deny it ladies. When you linger in the Oral Hygiene section of Honest Ed's, are you really interested in parsing the array of mint dental floss?...Or are you hoping one of the boys of Bathurst chances by, falls in love,and proposes to you right then and there with a makeshift showercurtain ring Lupe has landed David Mirvish, and she's supposed to meet him on the loading dock of Honest Ed's. Will he show up? Will he break her heart?Will he whisk her into the store and make love on a fiberglass children's animal (one loonie at a time)?
Every inch of this production is crafted with pure creative invention. The plot is simple, memorable, and thematically elegant.It's about class; Lupe, the immigrant girl who works as a mattress stuffer, versus David, the first generation real estate mogul. A fringe show versus 'Lord of the Rings'.
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