ECPD: Rhetoric, Blood and CRIME
Created by Patrice Forbes | Produced by Dead Unicorn Ink | Origin: Ottawa, Canada
La Nouvelle Scène – Studio A
14 + fees
55m
Show Details
To be just or to justify, That is the question, Your Honour. A dark, gritty, serious crime drama.
Showtimes
- Thursday, June 129:30pm
- Saturday, June 148:00pm
- Monday, June 166:30pm
- Thursday, June 1910:30pm
- Saturday, June 219:00pm
- Sunday, June 223:30pm
To stride the line of Law and Order, Or warp it’s Bones, And scale the walls of a moral Castle. True Detectives, with the firm of R and G, Will present the CSI evidence. Was this tale told by a Criminal Mind? We will not Fargo the truth, You, The Jury, are the key. A man’s soul hangs on The Wire.
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You wanna talk about worldbuilding???? The actors get this right, right away. The characters instantly bring stakes to the world presented through ECPD, the props and visual ambience instantly draws you in to the world’s vibe, and the unique twist on an old familiar keeps you there to see how these characters will possibly surprise you. And surprise you they will!
WAY TOO FUN! Dead Unicorn Ink has done it again with a gripping, well acted, silly-as-hell play that had me guessing and laughing in equal measures.
It was pure ridiculous in all the right ways. Can’t recommend enough. Nice work!
Come for the drama, the laughs, the intrigue, stay for the somersaults.
Dead Unicorn Ink brings spectacle to the fringe once again. A star-studded cast brings to life this gritty police drama take on Shakespeare.
This is Shakespeare the way it was meant to be: entertaining without pretensions.
The song choices are exquisite. The props, especially the puppets, are the work of Forbes’s mad genius.
This play is great! Top notch writing and acting! As all Dead Unicorn Ink shows this is a must see play! 5 out of 5 stars!!
Dead Unicorn does it again!!! Rockstar cast, puppets galore, stellar technical and creative elements. So much fun it felt like we were at a concert. My only regret is not being able to see it more than once. Listened to Creed the entire drive home. Thank you for giving your audience so much joy!!
This show had better go places. ECPD excels in so many ways! The tech polish of this show excels among its peers at Fringe, from comically low-budget solutions (check out the beginning-of-show character introductions) to creative uses of lighting to the versatile main set piece to the custom-built PUPPETS. If you want to see a show that looks beautiful, see ECPD.
Then there’s the writing. ECPD walks a difficult line, drawing laughs and genuine emotion at different points. How do you generate pathos in a death scene when the murder victim is a literal felt puppet? How do you make a dirty cop, raging and spiraling in the best genre style, and put him square in the middle of a sight gag — and how do you have this show hold together? The writing pivots from filthy language between adversarial colleagues in the station, to Shakespearian imitation verse, in modern language but with direct quotes from the Bard nested in. It all comes together somehow to make something coherent and wonderful — and explicitly queer, which earns bonus points from me!
I doubt the show would come together properly without the cast. Five actors play the parts of this Hamlet re-imagining, and all five of them deserve congratulations. There isn’t a weak voice or an uncertain step on the stage. Guildenstern (of all people!) seems like a common crowd favourite, and if you’re curious why that is, I suggest you go see ECPD. If you think Hamlet has a boring plot, go see ECPD, it’s riveting. If you’re reading this review and you think it sounds kind of fun, go see ECPD.
Go see ECPD, if you can.
(Then ask Dead Unicorn Ink, very nicely, to remount it somewhere.)
This show is the bomb!