Review: JACK AND DIANE VS. TECHNOLOGY the Ottawa Fringe Festival

OTTAWA

Jack and Diane vs. Technology, produced by Joint Puddle Productions, is a quirky adventure story where the title characters use newfound technology intended to make their lives easier – and it ends up doing anything but.

The play is broken into three short segments. In the first, Jack (Josh Sparks) and Diane (Karine Charland) tackle an increasingly annoying and intrusive virtual personal assistant named AVA (Jonathan Morel). Then, they head off to Maui and take its infamous Road to Hanna in a rental car with too little insurance and an obnoxious GPS (Chelsey Price). Finally, our heroes are sent unwilling to a technology-free camp run by the peppy Candi-with-an-i (Chelsey Price). Lighthearted and fun, with some voluntary audience participation, the show is entertaining for all, but perhaps especially for those of – ahem – a particular age group, like me, who will appreciate the humour on a personal level, as Jack and Diane’s characters are extremely relatable.

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