Soulpepper and Outside the March effectively drown Uncle Walt’s highly manicured public image in acetone, leaving the audience with a grotesque portrait that feels at once comically exaggerated and painfully accurate.
By Ryan Borochovitz /Apr 19, 2024
iPhoto caption: James Smith of Lessons in Temperament. Photo courtesy of Brampton On Stage.
It’s not often I’m unable to summon the words for a theatrical review. But it’s also not often that a production swings so widely and hits so assuredly as in The Effect, presented in a dazzling Canadian premiere at Coal Mine Theatre.