Performance Review

PERFORMANCE REVIEW
Created and performed by Rosamund Small
Directed by Mitchell Cushman
An Outside the March Experience

On a young woman’s first day at her first job, a man tips her $15. The next day, he tips her $100. Then $150. She’s not THAT good at making cappuccinos. 

So begins the first of seven stories about seven worst days at seven jobs by award-winning playwright Rosamund Small. Performance Review is a shockingly-funny and just plain shocking examination of power dynamics and sexual violence in the workplace in the style of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag and Sarah Polley’s Run Toward the Danger, “and,” says Small, “stay with me here… also with inspiration from The Communist Manifesto.” 

Performance Review is told intimately and immediately by Small herself as she serves coffee to a 30-person audience in real time at Dundas West’s Morning Parade Coffee Bar. Inspired by true events, it marks her return to writing a new play after seven years working in television and as an educator—and will feature her first-ever turn as a live performer. 

Why would she do that to herself? “There’s no intermediary,” says Small. “It’s honest. When I go to the theatre I want to feel like the artist is really there with me. Like we give a shit about each other. And I want to have a good time. You’ll have a good time!”

You will. The project is directed by OtM Artistic Director Mitchell Cushman. It features production design by Anahita Dehbonehie and sound design and composition by Heidi Chan, both long-time OtM collaborators whose work on last year’s A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney was celebrated as “Best Designed Production of the Year” by the Toronto Theatre Critics Awards. The piece is production managed by OtM Director of Production Tori Morrison, who has led production on all of OtM’s recent work. 

Approximate runtime
75 minutes

Dates
Previews: February 27 + March 1 + 2 + 4
Regular Performances: March 5 – 30

Content Advisory
Performance Review is about a woman’s experience of the workplace and includes humour, heartbreak, power dynamics and sexual violence. It is told through storytelling and nothing graphic is visually depicted or enacted. For more information about the show, contact the OtM Audience Concierge at info@outsidethemarch.ca.

Tickets
Performance Review is sold out.

Didn’t manage to get a ticket? On the morning before each performance, a very small number of artsworker/underwaged tickets may be made available. See above.

There is no guarantee that tickets will be available at any given performance.
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First come, first served.
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Please arrive no later than 8:15PM. Let our box office staff know you’d like to purchase a ticket at the door. They’ll take your name.
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Due to the extremely small venue and lobby, we cannot accommodate you inside while you wait for tickets. Please be prepared to wait outside (there are benches available). If you depart, you will give up your place in line.
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Box office staff will let you know before 8:30PM if a ticket is available or not.
Usually tickets are available as a result of cancellations or no-shows, so be prepared to be shown to your seat promptly right at 8:30PM.
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Tickets at the door are $25.

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General Admission – $50

Patron Admission – “True Cost of a Ticket” – $85 (includes a café beverage + treat)
Outside the March is a charitable not-for-profit and relies on public and private support to keep our ticket prices financially accessible. Patron tickets are for our audience members who wish to support the arts and are able to afford the full, unsubsidized cost of a single ticket. Patrons receive a complimentary hot or cold café beverage and baked good of their choice upon arrival.

Artsworker/Underwaged – $25

Accessibility
Please note that washrooms at the venue are in the basement down a flight of stairs. Unfortunately there is no barrier-free accessible washroom on site. Runtime is 75 minutes beginning at 8:30PM. We are endeavouring to find a barrier-free washroom with a local partner.

Otherwise the venue and audience seating can readily accommodate audience members with wheelchairs or other mobility devices. If you require wheelchair or mobility device seating, please indicate at checkout, or email info@outsidethemarch.ca.

A comprehensive audience accessibility and venue guide is available HERE.
If you have questions, get in touch: info@outsidethemarch.ca