Binocular Theatre’s production of Jordan Tannahill’s Get Yourself Home Skyler James, directed by Ali Joy Richardson at the Toronto Fringe Festival is surely Fringe theatre at its best — bold, brilliantly performed, and centred around an urgent, timely story of love and resilience in the face of homophobia.
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I had the pleasure of seeing Dario et la Diablesse: A Caribbean Musical tonight (Bellemoune Théâtre Troupe Inc.), which is playing at Al Green Theatre, as part of The 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival!
This show has so much going for it: a great cast, amazing music, humour, and a fascinating story. To me it needs just a bit of attention to detail to really bring it home.
There are the worst plans, and then better plans, and then you have yes problemo’s Best Made Plans, a short fantasy adventure through Toronto, at the 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival. Continue reading Best Made Plans (yes problemo) 2016 Toronto Fringe Review
House of Vinyl, by Glacity Theatre Collective, is on at the Robert Gill Theatre as part of The 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival!
I got to see it this evening, and I wish I had better news to report. I’m still not entirely sure what to make this of this strange production about bubble-imbibing, hallucinating vinyl lovers.
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The Stage Manager’s Guide to Dating Assholes ticks all my boxes: this Fringe satire about gender and power dynamics is hilarious, biting, political, and uncomfortably prescient. But coming into it, I was worried: what if it’s too theatrical? I am a stage manager; I know what to expect; will the public connect with it?
So I brought a friend who’d never worn a headset in her life — and she laughed, and laughed, and squirmed, and laughed. She got it, and she loved it — and you will, too.