{"id":2127,"date":"2013-09-07T12:42:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T15:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2023-07-08T17:05:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T20:05:58","slug":"go-to-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2127","title":{"rendered":"Go To Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1240297_10153228075320245_870440240_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2142\" alt=\"1240297_10153228075320245_870440240_n\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1240297_10153228075320245_870440240_n-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1240297_10153228075320245_870440240_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/1240297_10153228075320245_870440240_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">photo by philip aulenbach<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Michael Best\u2019s new play <em>Go to Hell<\/em> is a funny and smart twist on the relationship between the Devil, homosexuals and the Christians who believe homosexuality is a sin and those sinners are heading for eternal damnation upon their death. It is a fun play with the potential to be a great play if honed and shaped for maximum punch, clarity and hilarity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is so much that is excellent in this play. Whenever Best is onstage the energy of the piece lifts because he so flawlessly captures the coy, dry, irony of his dialogue. Tara Doyle is fantastic and hilarious as Peg, the awkwardly child-like sexually repressed thirty something year old minister\u2019s daughter eager to catch herself a husband. Gordon White gives a really nuanced performance as a marine who would rather be left to die than owe his life to a gay man. Matthew Lumley has the best death scene by electrocution I have ever seen. The theme song from the church\u2019s \u201cScared Straight\u201d program is the definite highlight of the play and I found the twist ending really satisfying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is an ambitious play and all the hardest work has already been done, there are just a few plot points that need to be tightened up for maximum clarity, mostly centred around the protagonist Johnson Wexford. In the play\u2019s synopsis it says that Wexford \u201cdoesn\u2019t identify with traditional gay culture,\u201d which I missed really grasping in the play. I was confused a lot about Wexford because Matthew Lumley\u2019s performance was not at all flamboyant or stereotypically \u201cgay,\u201d but with all the talk of tight pants (when he wasn\u2019t wearing tight pants) and dancing with effeminate cowboys, I never got the sense that Wexford was uncomfortable with or actively rejecting gay culture. So, at times I was left confused.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I really hope that Michael Best and Hellish Theatre continues to work on this piece because it is off to a very strong start and I think it has the potential to be quite terrific.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TWISI Rating:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/4-of-5-stars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1994\" alt=\"4 of 5 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/4-of-5-stars.jpg\" width=\"234\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Go To Hell plays at the Bus Stop Theatre at the following times:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Saturday, Sep 7 \u2022 7:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Tickets are $10.00 and are available in advance online\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/atlanticfringefest.eventbrite.com\/\">at this website<\/a>\u00a0or 30 minutes before each show at the venue on the day of the performance. All tickets bought in person must be purchased with either cash or credit. For more information please\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlanticfringe.ca\/\">visit this website<\/a>\u00a0or call 902.422.7604 between 10:00am and 5:00pm.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo by philip aulenbach Michael Best\u2019s new play Go to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4671],"tags":[5139,3212,3236,5137,5138,3242],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-gordon-patrick-white","tag-halifax-fringe","tag-matthew-lumley","tag-michael-best","tag-tara-doyle","tag-the-bus-stop-theatre"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Go To Hell - The Way I See It Theatre &amp; 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