The premise of SNAP!, produced by NightShift Theatre playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, is simple: a group of strangers convene for a court-ordered anger management workshop. Over the course of the hour long session, we learn why each participant is there with stories ranging from absurd to grotesque. Continue reading SNAP! (NightShift Theatre) 2017 Toronto Fringe Review
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.
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Silence S’il Vous Plaît (Illusion, Coffee and Poetry‘s offering for the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival) tells the story of two street mimes who fall in love over the course of one magical, romantic evening in Paris. Imagine a kind of silent-film version of Roman Holiday, but with queer mimes.
Of all the shows playing at Fringe this year, I was not expecting to be so utterly destroyed by mime girls in love. Especially when it started out with finger-guns. Continue reading Silence S’il Vous Plaît (Illusion, Coffee and Poetry) 2017 Toronto Fringe Review
Sometimes comedy needs a measure of heartbreak to make it perfect. Or maybe heartbreak needs comedy to make it bearable. Either way, comedian Franco Nguyen’s solo show, soaring in liquid skies, (FraGu Productions) playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, is the perfect mixture of both. Continue reading soaring in liquid skies (FraGu Productions) 2017 Toronto Fringe Review
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.