7/12/2009 11:50:00 p.m.

Zdenka Now! Zdenka is not funny!

Posted by Anonymous |

So I checked out this Fringe Show a week ago and posted an informal review on this
"BLOG" after seeing this show.

Lots of people were very unhappy with my review and proceeded to attack me for bad grammar, no class, not finding this play the most amazing thing ever put on stage, and so forth.

Therefore:
For all of the complainers here is my grammatically correct ZDENKA NOW review!

Zdenka Now is presented by performer Precious Chong as a series of loosely connected, "based on reality", comedic and tragic characters that range from a native "rapper" to a hyper and latently lesbian GM Convention Sales Representative.

Quarter Chinese Ms. Chong (who has 2 half black half sisters) manages to make her characters not only not interesting, but not funny. Whenever she changes between characters a video is presented, which included a LCBO salesclerk dancing with a customer in the aisles of a LCBO Store or the car salesperson driving a car.

I am so sorry however this show was all over the place, the costume changes killed the flow and the bottom line is that having the title character Zdenka (an overly simplistic Yugo stereotype) do two exercises and grin was just not funny. The native character is presented as travelling on a bus, constantly disturbing other passengers and finally performing a rap pertaining to their origins from a reservation. Again - not funny, or amusing (at all).

Ms. Chong surely is beautiful and a vibrant performer however her show was just not entertaining or funny. Wide eyes and various accents do not a show make. This show proves that basing your show on real people doesn't make it any more interesting.

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