Praise for The Emergency Monologues

Praise for The Emergency Monologues 

“NNNN”, “Brutally honest, macabre and often hilarious…”

            -Jordan Bimm (NOW Magazine) 

“VVVV”, “Blood, guts, feces, severed testicles, no body part is spared…”

      - The Varsity 

“Four stars”, “Morgan Jones Phillips is a natural storyteller and a total dude…hilarious, cringe worthy anecdotes…”

            -Paul Gallant (EYE WEEKLY) 

Top Five plays of The 2009 Toronto Fringe Festival

            -Kaori Furue (Torontoist) 

 “(The alternate choice to one of) Five plays that could well live up to their hype.”

            -Globe and Mail 

 “Your show was awesome. I can't wait to see another one.  To everyone that needs a laugh, (which is everyone out there) buy the book and I guarantee your face will hurt from laughing!!!” 

      -Mike Moran (Paramedic) 

“If you've ever heard a siren in the night and wondered where it was going, The Emergency Monologues is your answer... Fascinating, gruesome, and laugh-out-loud funny.”

            -Chris Earle (Director, Second City) 
 

“Morgan Jones Phillips is big and friendly and tells funny and horrifying stories from his work as a paramedic, and he has all the unnerving, loquacious energy of the shell shocked.”

            -Evan Webber (Time and Space) 

“Phillips neatly mixes humour and personal commentary with some dead-serious topics.  He’s a charming storyteller and knows how to improvise if the occasion arises, though the material would probably work better over a few shared drinks than in the theatre.”

            -Jon Kaplan (NOW Magazine) 

“The Emergency Monologues drove away with the NOW Audience Choice Award.”

-NOW Magazine  

“I might actually read this.” 

-Jules Phillips (brother of Morgan)  

 “Phillips [has an] easy and unaffected knack for telling funny as hell stories about crime scenes and head-on collisions.”

      -Sean Davidson (EYE WEEKLY)  

 “This would make great bathroom reading.”

            -Paul Butters (guitarist, Endsville)  

“It’s already in my bathroom.”

            -Matthew Bartram (keyboardist, Endsville) 

“I loved your book!!! SO good. When I saw your SummerWorks show I felt like I wanted it to be three hours longer than it was, and the book is like getting that wish.”

-Zoe Whittall, author of Holding Still For as Long as Possible

and Bottle Rocket Hearts       

“Side-splittingly hilarious view into the world of Paramedicine”           

      -Jason Ng (FNG) 

 “…once he’s in full flow he’s an accomplished storyteller.  The Emergency Monologues gives you glimpses of sights you pray you’ll never have to witness for yourself.  But there is more going on here than just a series of horror stories and gallows humour.”

-Andrew Templeton (Plank Magazine) 

“Morgan Jones Phillips is a consummate story-teller –filling in the small details of each scenario as skillfully as a master-weaver entwines a rich tapestry.”

      -Luc Iogna (Director) 

“That show was so frickin’ funny, I’m still smiling.  I haven’t had such a good laugh in a while, felt almost medicinal... So, thanks for that.”