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Orbituary

by Valerie Cotic

PRESENTED AT FRINGE FESTIVALs | LONDON ON & Winnipeg MB
PRODUCED BY NEW BEST FRIEND | JUNE 2017& July 2019

Everything changes. From stars lightyears away to the cells in your body. It’s inevitable. But that doesn’t mean we don’t still freak out about it. An obituary for romances, supernovas, and the fear of death itself – sometimes changing means ending, but an ending doesn’t always have to be The End.

★★★★ STARS
For a show about death, it’s oddly life-affirming.
— Joff Schmidt, CBC
★★★★ 1/2 STARS
The comedy looks at life in a way that isn’t cliché, but relatable and honest as it battles our inevitable fate: death. Cotic’s raw hour-long dialogue about her experience with humanity left space for humour as it paralleled with the cosmos and love.
— Nadya Pankiw, Winnipeg Free Press
The expla­na­tions of astro­physics were quite clev­er­ly done, using pack­ing box­es to help illus­trate key con­cepts of the life of stars. They were ener­get­i­cal­ly done, and at times, sur­pris­ing­ly fun­ny.
— Terry Moor, UMFM
Cotic is up to the heavy lifting of her ambitious script, deftly switching from the three dramatic devices back and forth and back again, letting the thematic linkages subtly bleed into each other like a John Coltrane solo. [...] The way Cotic masterfully weaves the personal with the profound and back again is what makes Orbituary such a compelling watch. Death is still a taboo subject but not for Cotic. And maybe not for anyone who takes in this moving meditation on life, death, relationships and atoms.
— Bob Klanac, Theatre in London

Read a preview with Writer/Performer Valerie Cotic here.

With Orbituary there will be some laughs, a bit of existential dread, perhaps catharsis – especially if someone has similar feelings about mortality as I do – or I hope some exploration of one’s own feelings around it (and endings in general).
— Tyler Graham, London Fuse

Written & performed by Valerie Cotic
Directed by Mika Laulainen