Dead People Are Liking Things On Facebook
Created by Chris Dupuis
Produced by RTC (Toronto, Canada/Brussels, Belgium)
60m | 14+ | Lecture Theatre
Content warnings: mature language, mental health
Laugh, think, cry, reflect, reminisce and create. Quite the experience.
That’s not what I was expecting from reading the show title. Or after reading the first sentence of the show notes. I should have read the whole summary. Maybe not. I enjoyed the surprise.
Dead People are Liking Things on Facebook is presented in a neutral manner. It is a performance canvas, accompanied by a video projection of performer Chris Dupuis’s Facebook account. It allows his subjects to add the colour and shape the story. And there is definitely colour in these subjects.
It’s a personal tour of a fascinating world with colour to spare through his Facebook friends. Dead friends. His subdued delivery allows space for us to feel a depth of emotion as we are confronted with dissolution, tragedy, the heart-melting warmth of loyalty, and the willful creation of beauty. The emotions arise from the stories, without any dramatic prompting.
Chris was blessed with these friends.
And Facebook? It provides a surprising medium for an afterlife. A place of eternal youth and beauty. Of happiness and friendship. Where icons are born through attentive cultivation by followers.
Is this good? Bad? Bizarre? It just is. Come experience Chris’s play and then decide.
Dead People Are Liking Things On Facebook by Chris Dupuis is playing at BYOV—Atelier (2 Daly Avenue) until June 19, 2022. Tickets are $12 online (plus a $2 processing fee) and at the door. Visit ottawafringe.com for the schedule and box office info. Read more reviews at https://apt613.ca/category/festival/fringe/.
