Anesti Danelis is just a boy with a guitar who wants to find the love that’s gone missing in this topsy-turvy world. In his show, “Songs For A New World Order” produced by his own company, Third Wheel; the audience is taken through a series of clever songs about everything from slow walkers on the TTC to accidentally kidnapping babies all tied up in an optimistic bow. Continue reading Songs For A New World Order (Third Wheel) 2017 Toronto Fringe Review →

When I was watching Bad Date: A Cautionary Tale…, produced by Aubrey Productions and playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival, it occurred to me that, since I met my husband at 19, I haven’t had to go on a first date in 13 years. I certainly haven’t experienced dating where actually meeting someone in person is a novelty.

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Things Drugs Taught Me is a collection of monologues produced by Four Face Production at the Toronto Fringe Festival. It follows Nisha Coleman and Jeff Gandell’s experiences with various drugs ranging from amphetamines to marijuana. Continue reading Things Drugs Taught Me (Four Face Production) 2017 Toronto Fringe Review →

This evening I visited the Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace to see 13 Ways The World Ends, a sketch comedy show by Good Morning Apocalypse company currently running in the Toronto Fringe Festival. I was curious about what I would find, since 2017 has been a stressful year for a lot of people, including me, between frightening political trends and reports of war from around the world and the fear of some kind of imminent environmental catastrophe. Could these sorts of fears, these insecurities about the very future of life, really be the raw material for humour? It can: 13 Ways The World Ends demonstrates this quite well.

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