Plays by Star Rating

Kahuna At A Glance

Here at the SEE Fringe Review desk, we know The Big Kahuna is a hectic environment. What with all the rushing from theatre to theatre to theatre to beer tent to theatre to beer tent to Port-a-Potty to beer tent, you barely have time to pause for breath, let alone read page upon page of reviews. So we’ve made things easy for you with our patented Hawaiian-themed “Kahuna At A Glance” chart, which organizes every play at this year’s Fringe according to the star rating we assigned them.

The cream of the crop—the shows that got five or four and a half stars—are grouped under the awesomest surfer character in the history of film: Patrick Swayze in Point Break. You’ll find the four-star and three-and-a-half-star shows below Elvis Presley in Blue Hawaii; the three-star and two-and-a-half star productions under Kate Bosworth, star of the mediocre surfer-chick movie Blue Crush; the two-star and one-and-a-half stars appear beneath hapless, schlubby Jason Segel, from the Hawaii-set comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall; and as for you bottom-of-the-barrel shows... well, you’re stuck below Donny and Marie Osmond, stars of the justly forgotten bomb Goin’ Coconuts. 

5 STARS
Big Shot
Graceland
Happy Toes
House
Jem Rolls: How I Stopped Worrying and Learnt to Love the Mall
Maxim & Cosmo
Oleanna
The Tricky Part

4 1/2 STARS
1UP
Balls!
Boom
The Cody Rivers Show Presents: Stick to Glue
Diamond Dog
The Good Thief
Maggie-Now Part 3: Claude
Rocket Sugar Factory
The Shakespeare Show
The Wishing Tree

4 STARS
African Folktales
Albertine in Five Times
American Squatter
“Art”
Big Winner
A Body of Water
Busty Rhymes With MC Hot Pink
Eleanor
Gordon’s Big Bald Head: New World Hors d’Oeuvres
Green Eggs and Kerouac
Hamlet (Solo)
Jake’s Gift
Killing Kevin Spacey
The “L” Word
Local Celebrity
Maggie-Now Part 4: I’ll Bury Youse All
MiLF
Mr. Fox
Nik & Stu Counting Leaves
Our Roots Are Showing
The Overnight
Pagliacci
The Pumpkin Pie Show
RedBird
Scratch
Singing at the Edge of the World
Sixty-Four and No More Lies
Trojan Women
The Ugly Duckling
Woody Sed

3 1/2 STARS
The Adventurous Times of Kevin Grimes
Bobby Gould in Hell
Crude Love
Don’t Make Fun of Jesus
The Etymology of Iroquois
Gray/Green Paradise
The Greatest Story Never Told
Jumpin’ Jack
Lived Lives
Meat Farce
The Mole
The Movies (Abridged)
Myths and Hymns
One World Song
The PreTenors
The Princess and the Pea
Putting It Together
Respecting the Action for Seduction: The Brownlee Affair
Sad Victoria’s Pelican Day
Spiral Dive
The Too Tall Princess
Whiskey, Gin, and Pints of Beer
Wild Abandon
Wooster Sauce

3 STARS
Alberto the Dancing Alligator
Aloha Pinafore
Anime
The “B” List
Bigger Than Jesus!
Cinderella
Closer
Coffee Dad, Chicken Mom, and the Fabulous Buddha Boi
The Genghis Khan Guide to Etiquette
In Tow
An Oak Tree
The Particulars
Pushin’ Up Daisies: A Musical
Question
See Bob Run
Sev
Stars and Sons
Sylvie
Tap Attack
Teaching the Fringe
Telegrams From the New Canadian Cinema
Transcendental Masturbation
Why Do Fools Fall in Love?

2 1/2 STARS
Bat Boy: The Musical
Carrot Juice Comedy
Crusoe: All Washed Up
Death’s Godson
Happy Kitchen
It Is Better to Ride the Dung Beetle Than It Is to Tread on Soft Carpet
Kiss My Bus
Liink and Zellda: The Misadventure
The Monkey King and the Iron Fan Princess
The New Step
Possible Worlds
Rainer Hersch: All Classical Music Explained
The Spy
Stampede! (Act One)

2 STARS
25 Plays About... Love
Amateur Night of the Living Dead
Bellies, Knees, and Ankles
’Beth
Chimprov
Counterpart
Dead Lover’s Day: A Musical
Hamletmachine
How Sweet It Is
Mathemantics
Occupied
Quixote
Trashcan Duet

1 1/2 STARS
Learning the Game
My Incredibly Screwed-Up Sisters

1 STAR
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The Official Napoleon
Dynamite Dance Class
Quinn’s Death
Snow Patrol

1/2 STAR
Cellmates: The Musical
Stage Right
Word of Mouth Is Killing Us