Alex The Artist is a fantastic, family-friendly Kidsfest play that is part of the Toronto Fringe Festival 2017. Your kid can cheer on Alex as she stands up to the evil King.
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D&D Yoga, playing at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival, is a combination of two great things that, I for one, did not expect would pair together so well. But they do. As the title suggests, D&D Yoga is Dungeons and Dragons and yoga. When I saw the listing for the show I wondered how the mechanics of it would work but as I quickly saw, as I rolled my D20 for damage, lunged, sun saluted, and downward dogged, it all blends together rather well.
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Night at Castle Impendingdoom produced by Wiggly Dolly is playing at the George Ignatieff Theatre as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival 2017. Written by Madeleine Redican and Clara McTeague, this KidsFest puppet show is a family must-see.
Elizabeth, Catherine and Slightly get a mysterious invitation to be guests at a Transylvanian home. While Elizabeth is thrilled to be going to an actual castle, and Slightly cluelessly sees the trip as a chance to protect two damsels in distress, Catherine is the voice of reason. She knows that something isn’t right. After all, the home is called Castle Impendingdoom and the host is called Count Sucksyourblood!
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Welcome to the Bunker! is an outing by Portius Productions that provides an escape from the looming end of the world – and from the gloomy tendencies of indie theatre. Playing at the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival, this production provides an unexpected ray of sunshine to the post-apocalyptic genre.
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What light from yonder window breaks? Slimer? Or so it goes in Shakespeare’s Ghostbusters, a retelling of the 80’s classic in Shakespearean verse put on by The Coincidence Men. Playing as part of the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival, it is a show that, for all its poetry, pretty well speaks for itself.
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