In a world where half the population is composed of department-store mannequins and we choose our leaders by reality TV competition, what hope does an average woman named Polly (Nancy Kenny) have to make a difference?
Canadian Comedy Award Nominee and Fringe veteran Nancy Kenny is back, along with newcomer Wes Babcock, in their new show, Your Princess is in Another Castle, at the Vancouver Fringe Festival. Kenny was last seen in town as the dynamo on roller skates from the critically acclaimed Roller Derby Saved My Soul", which won the Pick of the Fringe in 2014. Babcock, perhaps best known as a theatre critic for the New Ottawa Critics, will be making his Vancouver stage debut. Kenny is also appearing in a one-woman show, "Everybody Dies in December", at the Vancouver Fringe this year.
Your Princess is in Another Castle is the wild and delicious smoothie you get when political satire, a guy with a saviour complex, and a woman who is ready to burn it all down, get thrown in a theatrical blender and you hit “pulse.” This piece explores the absurdity of our collective obsession with scripting reality, and the idea that change can arrive from within these systems. If you laughed at Melissa McCarthy’s version of Sean Spicer, this is the play for you.
Your Princess is in Another Castle is written and performed by Nancy Kenny and Wes Babcock, sound design by Aaron Collier & Theodore Chapelhow and lights by Sarah Mansikka.
