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Totem Figures
Totem Figures is a ninety minute
monologue about personal mythology. About the idea that we're all the
main character in our own epic adventure. About having one's own personal
Mt. Rushmore. TJ extrapolates this concept, and exemplifies it with
his own mythology. His life story, inner and outer.
Reviews from the Winnipeg Fringe
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A Canadian Bartender at Butlin's
A Canadian Bartender at Butlin's
tells the story of a working holiday spent pouring pints in the piano
bar of Butlin's Holiday Centre - a British institution, mocked for decades,
and deservedly so.
Spoofed in the movie Tommy. Subject of a BBC sitcom. And an absolute
shithole. Imagine if Walmart ran holiday resorts. Butlin's is Walmart
with overnight accomodations.
Walmart surrounded by a spiked iron fence.
Walmart with beer.
And in house entertainment.
In the land of Oxford. Shakespeare.
Tom Stoppard.
Chariots of Fire.
Crisps.
Swimming-in-grease heart attack breakfasts.
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The Curse of the Trickster
This one's an experiment, folks
(well, they're all experiments) (art should always be dangerous). Anyway,
there's no story. No tales of a shitty job. But there is rapid fire
speech. There is autobiography. There is copious riffing.
The Curse of the Trickster is a fugue. It's a series of interwoven threads.
Rants intertwine with shorter stories about some of the most miserable
nights of my life. "Things You Never Hear People Say" are
interspersed in a long argument about what bullshit it is that we're
all supposed to buy DVDs instead of rent them.
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The Slipknot
The Slip-Knot is a one person
show about working horrible day jobs: stock-boy at a drug store, truck
driver for a dumpster company and Christmas parcel tracker for the post
office. There are three subplots: a long distance relationship, an attempt
to sell a used van and the ordeal of finding an apartment in a new city.
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Labrabor
Labrador is about a part of the
world that practically no one knows anything about - Canada's own Siberia.
The narrator's passport there is a children's theatre tour of Treasure
Island. While there he stays at the Two Seasons Inn, gets screeched
in, explores his father's Newfoundland roots and stumbles on a familysecret.
It's a show about the cycle of generations, about the blurry line between
autobiography and fiction and about the way Newfoundlanders say "yes"
while drawing in breath.
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Tired Clichés
Tired Cliches at first, seems
to be a scattering of monologues on unrelated thoughts - graveyard shifts,
traffic lights, how gracefully cats vomit, and doesn’t the word
“skiing” just look wrong? Little by little a story emerges
about a main character who graduates from university and finds himself
with Nothing To Do and Nowhere To Go but the delightful world of minimum
wage work. There’s a jump into a pile of boxes and a surprise
ending that ties everything together.
“TJ Dawe is unnervingly captivating, increasingly edgy and brilliantly
funny” - Patrick McDonald, Adelaide Advertiser (Australia)
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