An entirely unbiased retrospective
Photos by Lawrence Veregin (’18).
Law Follies: a respectable and sober evening of dramatic and musical performance of the highest quality where all participants and audience members are on their best behaviour.
Much like Law Follies, the previous sentence was one big joke: this year’s Follies was as raucous as ever. The show opened relatively on time this year at the Opera House, with a Planet Earth documentary on law school flora and fauna narrated by Sir Liam Thompson (no relation to the author). This was followed by a rousing adaptation of “America” from West Side Story, poking fun at our colleagues who decided to migrate south in search of higher legal salaries in a country where they remain unable to get high legally.
This year’s show was hosted by Cady Heron and Janis Ian/Nic Morello—played by Jen Crawford and Carly Walters, respectively. The overarching host storyline saw Cady try to fit in with the law school’s most exclusive and most turtlenecked clique: the HH Hammers.
The main show saw law school-specific comedy of the kind that would make your parent/partner/friend that you brought to the show say things like “This is what you’ve been doing instead of studying for the past month? Really?” or “What even is an HH, and why would I need a hammer for one?”. Highlights included the author being thoroughly dunked on by one of his professors going off book (PHILLIPS: And you know who the worst student is? Liam Thompson!”) an Aboriginal law-themed adaptation of The Matrix (“There is no underlying Crown title!”) a look at what it would be like if Kawhi LawNerd joined the law review, and a confused Sol Mackenzie being conscripted into the show with no prior knowledge of the script and subsequently committing the tort of conversion against the head writer’s exquisitely constructed Wheel of Grading.
When asked for comment, the student body responded positively:
“Its humour was only outdone by its insightful social commentary. Truly a tour de force that transcended the genre and is destined to go down as the highlight of the school year.”
—Rory Smith (2L), Follies Head Writer and Ultra Vires Diversions Editor
“THE GREATEST FOLLIES THAT EVER WAS OR WILL BE (until next year).”
—Also Rory Smith (2L), Follies Head Writer and Ultra Vires Diversions Editor
In all seriousness, this year’s show would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of all cast and crew. Thank-you and congratulations to all involved.
*Liam Thompson was the Production Manager for Law Follies.
Law Follies thanks the cast and crew:
Zach Biech, Stephanie Brazzell, Tali Chernin, Sarah Chouinard, Brittany Cohen, Gillian Cook, Jen Crawford, Ioana Dragalin, Conlin Delbaere-Sawchuk, Venky Feng, Sarah Firestone, Jackson Foreman, Isaac Gazendam, Robbie Grant, Zachary Kroll, Mark Leonard, Becky Lockert, Andrew Luba, Ben Mayer-Goodman, Kate Mazzuocco, Erica McLachlan, Ashley Qian, Adam Ragusa, Christina Roussakis, Claudia Shek, Rory Smith, Rob Sniderman, Liam Thompson, Sukhmani Virdi, Carly Walter, Honghu Wang, Jeffrey Wang.
