Hey '90s Kids, You're Old

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Company: Hole Punch Productions

Genre: Sketch

Venue:28 - Dramatic Arts Centre

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(Reviewed at the 2015 Winnipeg Fringe Festival)

If you get warm fuzzy feelings of nostalgia at the mention of Power Rangers, Carmen Sandigeo, and the theme fromFriends, this is the show for you.

Writer Taryn Parrish and an energetic sextet of actors serve up a series of mostly entertaining comedy sketches skewering all things '90s by transplanting them into the present.

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So we get scenarios like the Power Rangers trying to recruit a new member, cartoon mice Pinky and the Brain contemplating what will happen if they actually do take over the worldand a glimpse at the traumatic aftermath ofAmerica's Funniest Home Videos.

The sketches are snappy, and most don't overstay their welcome. A few don't land big laughs, though, and the show would probably be stronger if cut down to its best 45 minutes.

But the performers are good enough comedians and the majority of sketches clever enough to connect, even with those outside the target demographic. And it's hard to argue with any show that ends with such a '90s-tastic dance number.