REVIEW OF MURDER MOST STINKY, OTTAWA SUN
Updated: June 25, 2002

"Like heavyweight boxers, I wanted to leave the Fringe on top. And like so many chumps, I kept going. Except in this case I got lucky with the wonderfully camp murder-mystery Murder Most Stinky at Studio Leonard Beaulne. Written by Remote Planet's Richard Hemphill and directed by Shawn Rocheleau, Murder Most Stinky is outrageously witty, with shameless but well-crafted and executed performances by the ensemble, featuring Steve Patterson as the private detective Madison Wisconsin and his bodacious secretary played with vacuous intensity by Kate Hefferon.

"The rest of the company, Jeff Lefebvre, Marc-Andre Belair, Mary Shearman, Owen Spendlove and Steph Barrett, is terrific, capturing the mood and atmosphere of so many gumshoe whodunnits while spinning more humour out of theme than I thought possible. Productions such as Murder Most Stinky make Ottawa's shallow theatre scene that much more obvious and this year's Fringe Festival all the more delicious."

Denis Armstrong, Ottawa Sun, June 25, 2002