Vancouver Fringe Festival review: Weirdo

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      Magician Robbie T is a charmingly offbeat delight, and his illusions are genuinely impressive. The final five minutes of the show are made up of one mind-boggling reveal after another.

      And yet to truly earn its title, Weirdo could be about 52 percent weirder. He’s funny and self-deprecating, but the bulk of his actions that supposedly demonstrate his strangeness—he sniffs felt pens, he has his childhood stuffed elephant on tour with him—are kind of shrugworthy.

      One of T’s running gags is brilliantly effective though—a simple idea but his execution is perfection: pulling foil confetti out of his pocket in a small flourish whenever he wants to signal “magic!” It’s T’s body language here that really delivers on his “weirdo” promise. 

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