Monday, March 21, 2011

Afterglow Theatre presents "Ambiguous" at Toronto FRINGE

The story "Ambiguous" revolves around Gabriel whom is trying to create the "perfect" character. Art imitating life. An ear-wig walks into his ear canal, and as he burrows through the cerebral cortex he collaborates with the writer on what qualities make up perfection. Together they become a GOD. The character "Kyle" appears and they put him under a microscope. When the writer and the ear-wig begin to disagree on the events of the story we see the downfall of Kyle. He cannot possibly live up to their idea of perfection, and Kyle feels abandoned by GOD.

Gabriel and the ear-wig have a serious argument about Kyle's sexuality, and survival kicks in, and Gabriel's brain creates the allegory Panic, and she decides to help create a perfect girl for Kyle. The ear-wig and Panic fight about the plan for Kyle, and Panic's character is rejected. The brain reacts with another defense mechanism called Hysteria. This time Hysteria creates a character for Kyle, and Panic sabotages her out of jealousy.

The ear-wig creates one more character, and this one changes everything. Gabriel loses his mind. The battle royale over Gabriel's brain can only have one left standing.