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Out of My Skin (MTC Warehouse)
Reviewed by ROBERT ENRIGHT, CBC TV, WINNIPEG, July 22, 2001
Shannan Calcutt is back in the skin of her clown creation, Izzy, the mistress of distress and happiness, usually realized in the passing of a single moment, one after the other, as if the long poem of life and love she leads was reduced to a haiku. Calcutt remains the finest worker of audiences of anyone I've seen at the Fringe. This play, the third in her now complete trilogy, brings Izzy and her romancing up to the present, even incorporating the theft of her wedding dress while in Winnipeg on a separate tour. Izzy continues to wear her heart on her sleeve, although in "Out of My Skin" she spends a good deal of time naked from the waist up, so sleeves are hard to come by. But it doesn't matter; Izzy's emotions aren't decoration, they're bred in the bone, and she layers them from the skin on in. Her synchronized swimming routine, with whatever pair of audience members she invites on stage, and her demonstration of home-made breast implants, are amazing. You must see this show; she makes the comparatively large Warehouse space (where there are plenty of seats) seem intimate.
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