A Tribute Of Sorts

Overview

Making its debut onto the stage of the 2012 La Boite indie season and winning hearts ever since, A Tribute of Sorts is the play of macabre hilarity that you didn’t realise you were itching for.

Teenaged cousins Ivan and Juniper Plank are a little odd, as is the way they like to spend their time. Their latest imbalanced endeavour, however, is particularly heartfelt—they have decided to celebrate the lives of those who don’t get to grow up, those little ones whose time with us is cut short. What they want is to pay tribute to them. Well, sort of.

Don’t get them wrong, this isn’t going to be a sombre event, that’s not what the Planks are about. The brightness of the theatre and the stylistics of the stage lend themselves perfectly to the quirks of the cousins, and so what they are left with is a quite unexpected turn of events, a warped telling of misfortunes made devilishly hilarious and intelligent aplenty.

It has been likened to the dark humour of Tim Burton, with the aesthetic appeals of a Wes Anderson flick — the perfect balance to showcase the quick wit of director Benjamin Schostakowski.