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gruesome playground injuries | responses (copied from soulfoodvancouver.blogspot.ca)

"Despite its rather morbid title, Gruesome Playground Injuries is a surprisingly tender story of love and friendship with moments of sheer brilliance."  - Mark Robins, Vancouver Presents "Newcomers Pippa Johnstone (Kayleen) and Kenton Klassen (Doug) are both talents to watch. Klassen finds a whole lot of charm in Doug’s goofy hyperactivity... Klassen impresses. And Johnstone is so thoroughly grounded and subtly responsive that I kept imagining what it would be like to watch her on film."  - Colin Thomas, The Georgia Straight "Johnstone and Klassen yielded stellar performances... It may be difficult to shift through the eight disjointed scenes in the play, however director  Chelsea Haberlin  achieves this effortlessly by using the actors’ onstage costume changes to predicate the transitions. Garments designed by  Christopher David Gauthier  dangle on racks at opposite sides of  Carolyn Rapanos ’ bandage draped, alley-style stage. - Cora Li, Vancouv...