Promo for dance production of Make Banana Cry by Andrew Tay and Stephen Thompson, at UQAM in Montreal, 2022| Photo by Manuel Vasson
I’m on board with people dressing weird and doing wacky shit. It can be done with varying degrees of intentionality, pathos, wit and finesse, but for an hour or less, I can find outrageous behaviour, on its own terms, quite compelling. Presented by Toronto Dance Theatre and Buddies in Bad Times, Make Banana Cry offers enough giddy and flamboyant spectacle to satisfy me, but co-creators Andrew Tay and Stephen Thompson have considerably more ambitious mischief up their sleeves. Continue Reading