Softie
2026 Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival
16 août 2026 02:12

This show has a lot of great awkward humor! There’s a fair bit of audience participation, which can be very hit or miss, but I think it was pretty decent here. It was unfortunate that some bits dragged on too long; there’s a point where you’ve gone past awkward/uncomfortable comedy into something that’s veering into an almost boring slowness. That being said, when the humor hit it HIT and I laughed a lot!

My main criticism of this play is that it went 10 minutes over time, causing me to miss my next show that day. I know this because there was a clock on stage. When so much of the show is improv’d audience participation, you need to be very careful to watch the time and cut bits short to respect the runtime you communicated to the festival.