Reviews of Cam and Legs from the Calgary Fringe Festival
Five Stars Out Of Five
CALGARY HERALD
August 2nd 2008
Fringe Review: Cam and Legs
Ramshackle Theatre
Artpoint Gallery
Calgary Fringe
by Stephen Hunt
Five stars out of five
Not merely content to be a puppet show, Cam and Legs is also a wordless puppet show!
Created and performed by Whitehorse’s Brian Fidler, Cam and Legs tells the story of a headless, gotta-dance, gotta-move puppet who dreams of becoming a great DJ and landing on the cover of DJ Magazine. Telling the story against a backdrop of hypnotic techno music, on sets built to puppet scale, Cam and Legs unfolds a bit like a dream, as we follow the journey of the would-be DJ through an urban world that includes an apartment building, a pawn shop, a skateboard park and finally, The Scratch Club, where he comes face-to-face with his dreams.
Fidler, who was the star of the (unjustly) shortlived Gary Burns CBC Drama Northern Town, tells the story of the aspiring DJ with perfect, whimsical, heartbreaking pitch. And this puppet can move it, move it, move it!
Cam and Legs is a tiny, beautiful, funny piece of theatre. Fringe festival goers always dream of shows like this one: you stumble in, a little hungry, almost late, to a one-third filled theatre to see a show you know nothing about. And you emerge, 45 minutes later, absolutely thrilled. The Inglewood version of the Calgary Fringe couldn’t have chosen a better show to kick off its 2008 edition if they’d tried.
Cam and Legs is both kid-and-adult friendly as well.
Cam and Legs
Calgary Acts Reviews
August 5th 2008
‘Cam and Legs’ is not to be missed. Brian Fidler weaves a whimsical tale of Legs, the headless DJ who yearns to get on the cover of DJ magazine. You soon forget the man manipulating the puppet and get caught up in this yarn about the pursuit of dreams.
Remarkably, there are no words in the production but an underlying intertwinement of the story with music. If you go for no other reason, go to see the amazing DJ capabilities and break dancing moves of Leg’s as well as his friendship with Cam. Make time to see this intimate production so you can experience the best that Fringe has to offer.
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Stephen Hunt,
Calgary Herald
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Cam and Legs. A headless puppet named Legs dreams of growing up to be on the cover of DJ Magazine. This is his charming, whimsical, funny, up-and-down journey. Created and performed by Brian Fidler of Whitehorse, Cam and Legs is brief (35 minutes), dialogue-free (there's music instead that serves as the dialogue to Legs' journey), and wonderful fun. Some might accuse it of being slight; I say it's a Faberge Egg of a show: tiny, perfect, priceless.