Killing Nellie
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Details
Company Name: theMOXYcollective
Origin: Australia/Norway
Venue: 9 – Shaw Performing Arts Centre (MTYP)
Genre: Comedy
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Review
Two key ingredients for any successful show are talent and originality. That’s all Killing Nellie has, but it’s all it needs.
This is pure Fringe, with Oda Aunan and Mark Storen starring as a feuding, folk-singing couple. For 60 minutes, they banter, bicker, scrap and pout. In between, Storen strums on his guitar while Aunan toots a plastic kazoo. Nothing and everything happens at the same time – just like so many real-life relationship dramas.
Near the end of Killing Nellie, there’s some unnecessary action and a flat video. But it still doesn’t take away from the fact that there’s more charisma and personality in Aunan’s blood-red fingertips and Storen’s black-rimmed glasses than many plays at this festival.
Killing Nellie would be even better in a licensed venue. Make it happen: Sneak in a beer.
http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/scene/fringefestival/mobile/touch/fringe/2011/07/15/killing-nellie/