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Fringe Review: Low Budget Narnia: Now With 50% Less Wardrobe!

Article content Stage 1, ATB Westbury Theatre 10330 84 Ave Article content The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe gets a loving evisceration in Low Budget Narnia: Now With 50% Less Wardrobe! Article content Starting off roughly where the classic children's book begins, the Psychopomp Theatre production proceeds to rips up entire scenes for the sake of brevity, introduce new magical talking creatures (like smut talking anteaters), and by and large use CS Lewis's book as a starting off point for insanity. About time, says I. Article content Article content Comedy wise it can be a bit hit-and-miss, though the rapt audience at the well-attended opening night performance obviously disagreed. There's plenty of fourth wall breaking, allusions to current events, bad jokes, good jokes, everything up to and including the Pevensie kids themselves thrown in the grinder for a laugh, cheap or not. There's no dead space to be found, so even if the humour doesn't grab you won't be bored. Article content Article content