Fast Forward Weekly theatre writers Kathleen Renne and Dan Perry gave their musings on the year that theatre was and the one upcoming. One of the companies they focussed on was Lunchbox. Here’s what they said:

Another exciting development this fall was the reinvigoration of Lunchbox Theatre under artistic director Martin Fishman. I’ll be honest. In the past, I often overlooked Lunchbox Theatre and its one-act plays. Under Fishman, Lunchbox is heading in a slightly new, edgy direction. He christened the new Lunchbox space at the base of the Calgary Tower with a staging of David Mamet’s A Life in the Theatre. It was a different, bold choice for Lunchbox and one that reawakened my interest in the work it presents.

I take this to be one of the best pats on the back we could have had up to this point. Martie sure has been working hard to take Lunchbox in a slightly different direction, and I’ve been working equally hard to communicate this - through our communications to patrons, changes in how we do things, and our visual identity.

In all, I expect this kind of buzz will bode well for Lunchbox in 2009. We are certainly looking forward to the year and we hope you are too!

-dj