Venue 4, Academy at King Edward
8525 101 St. (east side of school)
Thurs. Aug. 17, 9:45 p.m.
Fri. Aug. 18, 7:30 p.m.
Mon. Aug. 21, 12 noon
Tues. Aug. 22, 5:30p.m.
Sat. Aug. 26, 11:15 p.m.
Sun. Aug. 27, 1:45 p.m.
Duration 60 minutes
2.5 of 5 stars
Not worth your time.
Cut! Is an amusing script, written many years ago by Alberta playwright Lyle Victor Albert and originally produced at the fourth Fringe festival in 1985.
The plot is truly original. The setting is some kind of purgatory where characters that have been deleted/cut/left out of the final version of famous plays are sent to commensurate and lament with one another on how they should have been stars.
The script is fun, and as the plot progresses there’s some playfulness around the theme of if-I-am-thought-of, do-I-exist?
But this version – at least at the second show – just didn’t gell. There was no underlying rhythm, no sense of cohesiveness. Each actor was doing his or her thing in isolation from the others. Turgid might be the word.