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Running Time: 60 minutes Venue: 1423 Vine Wed, 06/01/2011 - 07:00 Fri, 06/03/2011 - 07:30 Sat, 06/04/2011 - 03:00 Mon, 06/06/2011 - 08:30 |
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Acclaim Recommended, Acclaim Nominated: Writing and Creating (Jimmy Hogg)
Fast-paced, hyper verbose, physical comedy with an accent
From: Jimmy Hogg
Most Fringy Thing: It's as relevant now as when I wrote it. More so even, since it deals with themes of underemployment and the constant struggle to find work. I didn't realize until I first did it how much people would relate to it.
Brief Description: It's a show about my introduction into the working world at a very young age and consequent period of underemployment, moving from one awful experience to the next. It's also a users guide as to how to get a job. It's really the show where I made my mark on the Fringe scene by establishing a style that was very physically detailed, exceptionally fast-paced and packed with details, descriptions, segues and anecdotes leaving the audience little time to breathe until the curtain comes down.
Artist/Company Biography: Jimmy Hogg is an actor/writer/director and stand-up comedian. He has worked on more than 50 theatre productions in varying capacities. In recent years he has focused on his solo shows having toured the fringe circuit since 2006. Currently he is preparing to tour to seven cities in Canada and the U.S., as well as preparing a travel TV show which will commence shooting sometime in the summer in Bolivia. He is also a columnist for Toro Magazine, where he has worked for the past 3 years since its inception. This is Jimmy's second year at the Cincy Fringe, returning after the sell-out success of last year's A Brief History of Petty Crime.
From: Toronto, ON
Critics' Reviews
Review: The Conveyor
by Brian Griffin
I don't how anyone could imagine finding a way to 'break the 4th wall' better and with a sense of joy within the improvisation no less. Jimmy Hogg's Curriculum Vitae will have you laughing at each lightning speed phrase that no American as easily phrase. Originally from Britain, Hogg has the verbal ability to talk fast common to many of his home county. He uses that speaking tone to catapult you through his resume, literally his resume or "cv" and takes you through his work history and the life around it. The is both a story and a chronology of his life at work and the people and employment pitfalls that most have experienced.
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Review: CityBeat
By Stacey Recht
CRITIC'S PICK
For the 2010 Cincinnati Fringe, Jimmy Hogg’s confessional storytelling and precocious, high-velocity comic delivery won him a Critic’s Pick award for his monologue A Brief History of Petty Crime. The Fringe-circuit veteran returns to the 2011 Fringe this year with Curriculum Vitae, a chronology of his humorous and humiliating experiences in the working world (performed at 1423 Vine St.), starting with his childhood chores, progressing through menial office tasks and manual labor and depositing him in the world of catering for performing arts.
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Review: Cincinnati Enquirer
by David Lyman
Jimmy Hogg has a dilemma. The English-Canadian actor-comic has a wildly humorous 90-minute show tucked away somewhere inside himself. But at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, he's been allotted a 60-minute spot. His solution? Talk fast. And faster. And even faster still. It's a style that sometimes works as Hogg regales the audience with tales of work experiences that are as hilarious as they are woeful.
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Review: Behind The Curtain Cincinnati
by Rob Bucher
Jimm Hogg descibes his performance style as “very physically detailed, exceptionally fast-paced and packed with details, descriptions, segues and anecdotes leaving the audience little time to breathe until the curtain comes down. ” In that regard, CURRICULUM VITAE certainly delivers as promised.
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Review: The Conveyor
I don't how anyone could imagine finding a way to 'break the 4th wall' better and with a sense of joy within the improvisation no less. Jimmy Hogg's Curriculum Vitae will have you laughing at each lightning speed phrase that no American as easily phrase. Originally from Britain, Hogg has the verbal ability to talk fast common to many of his home county. He uses that speaking tone to catapult you through his resume, literally his resume or "cv" and takes you through his work history and the life around it. The is both a story and a chronology of his life at work and the people and employment pitfalls that most have experienced.
For the full article check it out on theconveyor.com.
Reviews
Nice work, Mr. Hogg
From Randy Waterhous
Here is my rating system from last year (and I am sticking to it.)
1*= Sorry I saw it; 2*= Glad I saw it; 3*= Recommend it;
4*= Would see it again
Last year I added the adjectives-
Fringy (solid Fringe wierdness/entertainment),
Fringier (unusual even in a Fringe context), and
Fringiest (weird in any context)
Suzana 3* Randy 4* Cliff 4*
We saw and enjoyed Jimmy Hogg last year in his very
funny Petty Crimes. This year is another autobiographical
piece dealing with the horror stories that plague all of us
who face the necessity of a job search. In Jimmy's hilarious
stories, the horror evaporates and we see, from the safety
of the audience, how absurd this great trauma is. The
audience decided to interrupt Jimmy and mess up his timing,
but he just let down the fourth wall and brought us into the
story. This was the first show and was a full house, so I
recommend early ticketing and early arrival. The venue
favors the first four rows. We had a great time in the last
row, but the visuals were not always there that far back.