Two men on stage, an actor (Martin Broaddus) and a playwright (Martin Dockery), are supposed to perform a play. One hasn’t memorized his lines, and, even worse, the playwright hasn’t even written the play! A play about the end of the world, with two men who have retreated into a bunker.
This time 1 Small Lie is in the style of Raymond Chandler. (As an example, think Double Indemnity). In this case, Dockery has set the story in upstate New York during the pandemic.
Martin Dockery’s latest offering is a story which starts out sounding true-to-life but becomes weirder and weirder as it progresses.
The Stakeout is a whip-smart tragicomedy with crackling, sometimes absurd dialogue that reminded reviewer Barb Popel of Samuel Beckett and Philip K. Dick.
Julia Bueneman: “Forbidden City! is everything from surprising chaos to heartwarming, and Dockery pulls it all together in a truly incredible way. If you can manage to get tickets, this is a ride you don’t want to miss!”
Mer Weinhold: “This is a twisted, funny, unpredictable play.”
After reviewing every show, Apt613 contributors have selected the best shows, best new works, and best performances seen at the 2017 Ottawa Fringe Festival.
Jessica Ruano: “For those of you who have experienced Dockery’s performances, all you need to know is that the quality of this show is perfectly consistent with his previous ones. In other words, engaging, invigorating, gripping, and life-affirming.”
Martin Dockery is performing Delirium at the Ottawa Fringe Festival from June 14–18, 2017.
57 shows are playing nonstop in the Ottawa Fringe Festival, June 8–18. Let Apt613 help you sort the best of fest from the rest of fest.
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By Philip Caunter 67 min | Drama | PG Calling love a battlefield may not make much sense unless you’ve been in love, or maybe been in love a few times. The notion is partly romantic but also speaks to pain, injury, and confusion – all the things other than triumph that come with love and […]
50 min | Comedy, Travelogue | Mature Brooklyn-based playwright and Fringe veteran Martin Dockery overlays a trip to Chernobyl, Geoff Dyer’s book Zona, and the film Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky into a solo show about the search for human creativity. All three of these pieces are quests in one way or another to find the […]
The 20th annual Ottawa Fringe Festival is June 15-26, 2016. Apt613 asked two of our long-time theatre reviewers, Brian Carroll and Barb Popel, for their pre-Fringe Festival recommendations. Have a look and tell us your four picks in the comments below. Anyone who leaves a comment will be entered to win a FOURPLAY PACK to see […]
Review by Erin Murray 60 minutes | Comedy | G It is so easy to slip into routines. You can repeat the same day over and over so many times, that you begin to forget all other ways of living. Some people welcome the monotony of such a life, repeating the same words to the […]
