The Bathtub Girls

Rating: Review

Company: kairos

Genre: Physical Theatre

Venue: 11- Red River College (Roblin Centre)

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This is not to be confused withThe Drowning Girls a hit at last year's Fringe about three women drowned in the bathtub. This time, it's the girls carrying out the drowning.

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Based loosely ona 2003 case in Mississauga, Ont.,this play focuses on two sisters immigrants and outsiders at their school trying to deal with a single mother with crippling alcoholism who make a terrible choice about how to deal with all that's wrong in their lives.

But is that choice, as they claim, a merciful kindness oris it cold-blooded murder? There are provocative questions in this piece by creator/performers Natalia Bushnik and Robin Luckwaldt Ross, which blends dance-like physical theatre and dialogue to tell its story.

They're strong performers, and flesh out complex and sympathetic characters here. The piece itself can feel overwhelmingly grim at points, but it's also often eerily graceful and strangely hypnotic.

Adark but compelling piece of theatre.- Joff Schmidt

It's a dark but compelling piece of theatre.