Fringetastic Theatre Festival features eight separate theatre shows running Sept. 8-11 at three downtown venues. Please give us your thoughts on each show in the comments section below.
Giving into Light
Alison Wearing (Mexico)
www.alisonwearing.com
General audience
Giving Into Light is a hilarious, yet deeply moving journey from the eye-crossing exhaustion of early motherhood into the myth and magic of Mexico.
It tells the story of a desperate and distraught new mother attempting to survive sleep-deprivation, fluorescent-lit church basement playgroups and prescriptions for depression in the midst of ice-caked Ontario.
Her search for happiness leads her on an intuition-inspired journey to a village in central Mexico – a one-month trip that becomes a five-year stay. As she raises her child amid the colours and textures of Mexico, its bustling marketplaces and interminable celebrations, she finds ‘post-partum illumination’: sweet surrender into the lyricism, the lunacy and the lightness of life.
$10; $8/volunteers
Vancouver Island Conference Centre
Sept 8 – 6 p.m.
Sept 9 – 8:30 p.m.
Sept 10 – 1 p.m.
Sept 10 – 6 p.m.
Sept 11 – 1 p.m.