Weaksauce (Sam Mullins) 2017 Toronto Fringe Review

Sam Mullins in Weaksauce

First times are always scary.  And in Weaksauce, an original one man show by actor and writer Sam Mullins at the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival, we experience some of the most intimate and hilarious first-time stories from Mullins’ past.

Sam Mullins is a masterful storyteller, and he carries this show very well. Clocking in at about an hour and ten minutes, I didn’t quite believe that I was sitting down for a Fringe solo show until I got into the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse and saw nothing but a small black chair and a water bottle onstage. Continue reading Weaksauce (Sam Mullins) 2017 Toronto Fringe Review

Happy Family (Other Life Productions) – Toronto Fringe Festival 2017

Photo of Leonard Scott-Collins, Kristi Woods, and Adèle Power in Happy Family.

When you go into a show called Happy Family, you know right from the get go that it’s probably going to depict the exact opposite of that. Other Life Production’s show as a part of the Toronto Fringe Festival playing at the Franco Boni Theatre did not disappoint — it presented a deeply flawed unit teetering, as they said themselves, on the edge of something big. It left me pondering the lengths we go to in order to save, and sometimes sabotage, our families.

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Real Actors. Not People. (Me and Snow White Productions) 2017 Toronto Fringe Review

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Real Actors. Not People.  at the Factory Theatre Mainspace was a gut-bustingly funny romp through through the arts world. Me and Snow White Productions‘ show as a part of the Toronto Fringe Festival was phenomenal, and hilariously put into words the trials and tribulations of trying to make art, especially theatre, in Toronto.

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Palestineman (symbols and details theatre) 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival

Sam Khalilieh is not kidding when he says Palestineman, produced by symbols and details theatre playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, is a lecture no one asked for. Although he gets behind a podium with water and lecture notes, from there the show really doesn’t resemble your undergraduate sociology class.

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