The Creation Coffin‘s production of HEXEN at the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival is everything it promises to be and more. Indeed, if you like blood, witches, socialism and classic rock — or even if you don’t — it’s worth a watch. The show’s combination of soft percussion, smokey-voiced singing, and fierce physicality are sure to lure you into a dream-like trance. This is a play that is fraught with ritual and executed with ease and grace.
Confidential Musical Theatre Project produced by The Confidential Project performing as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival is one of those gimmicky concept shows you’ll often see at Fringe. Individual cast members are given scripts and scores then sworn to secrecy about the show and their part in it. They show up and perform with no prior knowledge of who they’ll be performing with and with no rehearsal. The audience comes not having a clue as to which musical they’ll see.
On a distant island awash in magic, an airy sprite and a tortured mortal meet and form a strange friendship. Together, the two negotiate the meaning of freedom while a distant threat looms over the island: Prospero, the infamous magician from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Theatre Arcturus‘s Rough Magic takes Shakespeare’s The Tempest and gives it the Wicked treatment for the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival, imagining a potential friendship between The Tempest‘s supporting characters Ariel and Caliban.
The Creation Coffin‘s production of HEXEN at the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival is everything it promises to be and more. Indeed, if you like blood, witches, socialism and classic rock — or even if you don’t — it’s worth a watch. The show’s combination of soft percussion, smokey-voiced singing, and fierce physicality are sure to lure you into a dream-like trance. This is a play that is fraught with ritual and executed with ease and grace.
On a distant island awash in magic, an airy sprite and a tortured mortal meet and form a strange friendship. Together, the two negotiate the meaning of freedom while a distant threat looms over the island: Prospero, the infamous magician from Shakespeare’s