Elliot Maxwell

Steven is such an amazing performer, and such a talented singer. There is a scene that I feel would be very corrective and healing for queer folks coming out to their parents, or who have religious trauma, it is so cathartic and there is a lot of love, it really warmed my heart and that was one of my fave moments. Very positive messages, strongly recommend!

Brilliant storytelling, amazing mix of emotional depth and grief, and comedy, and has a really lovely and healing ending, leaving us with a feeling of deep hope.

This piece felt like a love letter to those who are neurodivergent, it felt very neurodivergent-coded, but I think also is universal. It also felt very connected to inner child healing. I had a cathartic cry at the end for my inner child, and I love art that can bring me there, so this definitely is a piece that resonates within my soul and I will always remember. The non-linear storytelling, and parallel story about aliens, were so brilliantly weaved together, the performers were so committed and radiating, all together was such a brilliant show that I strongly recommend!

Such visceral, emotionally charged, creative, heart-breaking and haunting theatre. There are certain images that will forever stick with me, and there was a radical activation of empathy from how deeply I felt this piece, and how powerfully political this piece is in terms of awakening folks to the immigrant experiences, smashing down stereotypes and assumptions, and bringing visceral and essential truths. All of the performers were so brilliant, radiating, and it felt like pushing boundaries to new ways of how theatre and performance can unfold. The sound design was incredible, and added to the tension and how deeply the piece was felt. Brilliant and essential theatre, strongly recommend!

Jessica is absolutely hilarious, I have not laughed this hard for a consistent hour in a very long time. They are such a brilliant comedian, and also do the thing that the most brilliant comedians do, and that is speak of essential things in the collective but through humour and playfulness and satire. She also brought in these really heartfelt and genuine moments where you were able to feel the passion and meaning she has for comedy, and then it would shift into amazing jokes. One of the best stand up comedy shows I have seen in ages, strongly recommend this show!

The ending left me speechless; such a beautiful, cathartic, heartfelt moment. Colin is such an engaging, magnetic, visceral, and genuine performer and he takes the audience on an emotional journey with such precision and heart. I really loved the sound design as well, it was incredible, and in moments felt ethereal. The show has really important messages that sneak in and don't feel forced and so they land in really gentle and brilliant ways. Strongly recommend this show!

As an empath, I really loved this show. It shares something so honest about the experience of being an empath, and how this can be a gift, and also a burden. For those who are people pleasers, there will be insights and gifts from this show to, and feelings of being seen, heard, and having experiences mirrored back in healing ways. The show has a really beautiful and healing message about love, and about the journey of self love. Cathartic, heartwarming, hopeful, a brilliant and beautiful show!

A raw, insightful, heartfelt, visceral and deeply essential show. The gift of Josie's vulnerability must be experienced and can't really be put into words. Josie is such an incredible performer, a natural confidence that draws you in, and then a radical rage and grief that speaks directly to the collective and also feels extremely personal. John, Jack and Josie are all extremely personal but also speak directly to what is happening in the collective making this show feel both universal and intimate at the same time. This show will make you feel deeply, and will live in your body after the show, and it feels like this is Josie's intention, to awaken us from ambivalence and into action. However, Josie also brings in moments of warmth and connection, not a fairy tale ending, but beats of souls and hearts connecting, to allow the trauma to alchemize and not feel like a burden the audience leaves with. I would actually strongly recommend this show for individuals who are extreme leftists or extreme conservatives: one of the greatest gifts of this show is that we are left with an empathy for all the polarities because Josie taps into the humanity underneath, and the insurmountable collective grief of disconnection and loneliness permeating through when stories divide us. Strongly recommend, this is such a deeply important show!

My inner child absolutely loved this show. NAV channels messages of hope, self love, grief, purpose, joy, and connection that are so needed for the collective, and the messages that I can imagine if I were a child, and experiencing this show for the first time, would have had deeply healing impacts. Gabriel is a brilliant guitar player, and the playfulness and creativity of having music as a character in the show is absolutely brilliant. Chelsea brings so much radical joy and warmth to Dan the Seed, and immediately is able to bring the audience into connection with their inner child, and into a sense of expansive playfulness. A sense of safety to be goofy and playful with a group of strangers. Such a gift! DUCK is one of those rare shows where you feel there is something deeper and healing happening in your soul, and radiates so much light and love. I strongly recommend this show, for adults, and for children, you will leave with your soul smiling.

Absolutely hilarious and brilliant improv. You feel the chemistry between the improvisers and that is such a gift to experience, and in that sense, it does feel like you are hanging out with friends. I loved how they did transitions, it was so creative and were so funny. The scenes were both so funny, I laughed so hard, but also had moments that felt so real, there was this one moment exploring attachment and commitment and to see Brian and Kat drop from a hilarious parody on Pedal Pubs into something really sincere and heartwarming was so awesome to witness, and felt really new to witness, because I haven't seen many improv shows that can drop into both areas with such heart and brilliance. Strongly recommend this show!