{"id":2513,"date":"2015-07-05T08:41:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T11:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2023-07-07T20:00:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T23:00:29","slug":"gavin-crawford-friend-like-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2513","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Crawford: “Friend” “Like” #Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"gavin_selfie\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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I expected Gavin Crawford<\/a> and Kyle Tingley\u2019s play Gavin Crawford: “Friend\u201d \u201cLike\u201d #Me<\/em>, playing as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival<\/a>, to be hilarious (it is) and I expected to thoroughly enjoy it (I did), but I wasn\u2019t adequately prepared for how profound the lasting message of the show, about how the Internet has fundamentally and irrevocably changed our lives, truly is. <\/span><\/p>\n

Crawford begins with a one man impression of YouTube and segues nicely into a dramatic enactment of scrolling through an average Facebook newsfeed, highlighting how Crawford uses social media as a willful (yet detrimental) distraction from his task at hand (writing a play). It\u2019s clear that, like most of us, Gavin Crawford is addicted to social media. Coming to this realization, and with the deadline for his play looming, Crawford decides, as many do, that he will take a break from Facebook, and he gives a brilliant, public, farewell, and banishes himself from one of his only means of connecting to a large portion of his \u201cfriends\u201d for the benefit of his art. <\/span><\/p>\n

He decides that he must be more Mindful (as explained by a hilarious Arianna Huffington) and heads to the park where birds are tweeting (literally and figuratively) and that is where disaster of all disasters occur and his cellphone becomes the casualty of an accident. Cut off from all social networks, Crawford begins to get antsy. Is this an opportunity for Crawford to \u201cengage\u201d with people in a more \u201cgenuine\u201d way or is it actually a social death sentence for a shy person who finds it easier to meet people online first? Does it allow for more opportunities to connect with people, or does it simply strip someone of the ability to avoid talking to someone they find annoying, pretentious, awkward or intimidating? This musing culminates in a beautiful story about porn that Crawford tells to a straight man he meets at a sport\u2019s bar, that so beautifully articulates how the Internet has changed our world for the better, and that I think everyone would benefit from hearing. <\/span><\/p>\n

Crawford\u2019s writing is sharp and witty, the immediacy of his popular culture references is on fleek, (but there is also an epic \u201cChasing Cars\/Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em> reference that never gets old) and Crawford is so charming, smart and hilarious that I\u2019m sure the entire audience left the theatre wanting a \u201cfriend\u201d just \u201clike\u201d #him.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

TWISI FRINGE RATING: \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Friend” “Like” #Me<\/em> plays at the Annex Theatre (736 Bathurst Street) at the following times:<\/strong><\/p>\n

show times<\/strong>
\nJuly 05 at 12:30 PM \u00a0buy tickets<\/a><\/strong>
\nJuly 06 at 06:45 PM \u00a0buy tickets<\/a><\/strong>
\nJuly 07 at 02:15 PM \u00a0buy tickets<\/a><\/strong>
\nJuly 08 at 04:00 PM \u00a0buy tickets<\/a><\/strong>
\nJuly 09 at 09:15 PM \u00a0buy tickets<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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