{"id":2708,"date":"2016-09-03T12:29:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T15:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2023-07-07T16:24:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T19:24:25","slug":"merrily-we-prance-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=2708","title":{"rendered":"Merrily We Prance About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen_shot_2016-08-18_at_9.45.28_PM.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2709\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen_shot_2016-08-18_at_9.45.28_PM-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"Screen_shot_2016-08-18_at_9.45.28_PM\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen_shot_2016-08-18_at_9.45.28_PM-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen_shot_2016-08-18_at_9.45.28_PM.jpg 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a>Ned Petrie has become an Atlantic Fringe favourite over the last few years and with his one-man sketch show <i>Merrily We Prance About <\/i>this year Petrie is in finer form than ever. The show features an array of sketches, without an obvious theme tying them together, but each one highlighting the inherent absurdity in a variety of facets of American and Canadian society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">One of Petrie\u2019s strengths as a performer and writer is his ability to use the specificities and colloquialisms of language to firmly root his characters in a particular time and place. In one sketch he plays a Kentucky Defence Attorney giving his Closing Argument to the jury in a murder trial and it\u2019s not just Petrie\u2019s accent, but also his turns of phrase, that allow him to really thoroughly poke fun at a very specific Southern stereotype. In a great example of the very specific being the most universal, I also saw an immediate correlation between Petrie\u2019s Southern lawyer and Toronto\u2019s former Mayor Rob Ford. Similarly, Petrie uses language to root his unhinged neighbour and frisbee thief Sid Lundy in a particular place as well, and there is an interesting connection between Sid and Petrie\u2019s awkward flirter in the Opening Sketch, as both explore the connection between masculine fragility and unbridled rage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Petrie is an extremely affable performer and <i>Merrily We Prance About <\/i>is smart, funny and topical.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Merrily We Prance About plays at the Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen Street) as part of the Atlantic Fringe Festival at the following times:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Saturday Sept 3rd, 1:30PM (Volunteer Appreciation Performance!)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sunday Sept 4th, 3:20PM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Monday Sept 5th, 12:00PM &amp; 6:40PM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Tuesday Sept 6th, 9:30PM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Wednesday Sept 7th, 11:15PM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Thursday Sept 8th, 7:00PM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Friday Sept 9th, 8:15PM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sunday Sept 11th, 7:20PM<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ned Petrie has become an Atlantic Fringe favourite over the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[3212,4685,3242],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-halifax-fringe","tag-ned-petrie","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>Merrily We Prance About - The Way I See It Theatre &amp; 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