Photo by Amilia Fehr
Reviews for Third Party
This play by Thomas McLeod was originally directed by Theresa Thomson at the Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Vancouver Fringe Festivals in 2025 and remounted by Matthew-Paris Irvine for the Edinburgh Fringe in 2026.
“Brett and Julie (Alanna McPherson and Dane Bjornson, both terrific), whose two-year-old relationship is already cracking under the pressure of cohabitation, confronts its most stressful episode yet: an intense collision with Marty Fink (Thomas McLeod), an intrusive investigator from Manitoba Public Insurance […]
McLeod’s wisest move as a writer is to keep the conversation mostly confined to telephone lines, loading each of Julie and Brett’s responses with duplicitous winks of dishonesty and misdirection — of each other, of themselves, and of course, of the fanny-packed Fink, whose commitment to the Crown corporation as he paces through the theatre spills into insanity. “I go the extra mile,” he says in this new work, which, with a less abrupt ending, could easily find a home on any of the city’s major professional stages.”