On Alice’s sixteenth birthday, her father Frank, a celebrity self-help guru, dies in a car crash on the way to her celebration. Alice tries to navigate her life and find some meaning in it by questioning and exploring her complicated relationship with him, and the family, friends and acquaintances that surround her. Life After, from the Life After Collective, is a beautiful new musical making its stage debut at the Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival.
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Yearly Archives: 2016
WILD/SOCIETY (star star theatre) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
WILD/SOCIETY by star star theatre at The Tarragon Theatre is an environmental awareness-raising addition to the Toronto Fringe Festival 2016.
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Candy & Shelley Go to the Desert (3 Ducks in a Row Productions) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
Candy & Shelley Go to the Desert is a play put on by 3 Ducks in a Row Productions for the Toronto Fringe Festival. It follows a pair of friends, stranded in the desert after their car breaks down on a road trip. This was the most traditional performance I have watched at Fringe this year; it didn’t try to reinvent a new way of storytelling, so it was still familiar and easy to follow. It was supposed to be a production by and for women, but to me it seemed to have missed the mark.
In Gods We Trust (The Lactors’ Studio) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
I’m a bit of a nut about Greek mythology and, like many people who have spent more than a few minutes on the internet, I’ve been unable to escape the gong show that is the US Presidential Election. In Gods We Trust from The Lactors’ Studio combines those two things into a piece of satire that I figured would be right up my alley and a solid addition to 2016’s Toronto Fringe Festival.
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Promise and Promiscuity: A New Musical by Jane Austen and Penny Ashton (Penash Productions) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
Ten minutes into Penash Productions’ Promise and Promiscuity: A New Musical by Jane Austen and Penny Ashton at the Toronto Fringe Festival, I knew I had to see it again. It was just that good — brilliantly performed, absolutely hilarious, and by far the best one-person show I’ve ever seen.