The Retirement Plan (Certainty Assurance) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review

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The Retirement Plan touches on a subject that a lot of will think about, retirement. Playing at St. Valdamir’s Theatre, this is a charming play about a couple deciding how to spend their final years and the consequences of that choice.

The show opened with your typical well tailored overly happy salesman, here dubbed financial planner, about to make a deal with his client. The next step for the plan to work was to convince his wife. Continue reading The Retirement Plan (Certainty Assurance) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review

Mercury (Monster Feelings) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review

While sitting in the George Ignatiff Theatre, I was taken through an exploration of mercury’s various forms, from the planet and the element to the Roman God and the rock star. Everyone has a different notion of what exactly it  is: I thought about the planet while my show buddy thought of Freddy Mercury. The creators of Mercury, Monster Feelings, played with all of these different interpretations. The show consisted of eight different vignettes each dedicated to a different aspect of mercury. Continue reading Mercury (Monster Feelings) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review

It’s Always You: A Musical (WigglyDolly Productions) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review

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The multiverse, a set of infinite parallel universes that comprise the entirety of everything that can possibly exist and the idea that seemingly minor decisions can have hugely divergent effects has been explored extensively in science fiction but It’s Always You, playing as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, toys with the idea in a musical romantic comedy. Continue reading It’s Always You: A Musical (WigglyDolly Productions) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review

The Effects of Time Travel on Neurotic Homos (Do These Pants Make Me Look Fat?) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review

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Kicking off Fringe with an inter-temporal bang!

What do you get when you combine time travel, social commentary and an introspective look at one gay man’s coming of age story? Well, you end up with Do These Pants Make Me Look Fat’s contribution for this year’s Toronto Fringe entitled, The Effects of Time Travel on Neurotic Homos.

Based on the premise of what would happen when a person’s past and present selves are brought together, this play, which runs at the George Ignatieff Theatre, chronicled one gay man’s regrets and triumphs during a 20-year span.

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We Are The Bomb (Theatre Brouhaha) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review

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What if the Canadian government banned the sale, production and consumption of alcohol and imposed a modern Prohibition? Would you rise up for your right to imbibe? Theatre Brouhaha’s production We Are The Bomb, playing at the Paddock Tavern as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, explores this scenario in a hilarious farce.  Continue reading We Are The Bomb (Theatre Brouhaha) 2013 Toronto Fringe Review