in threes by Half Second Echo is a contemporary dance show featuring works by Alison Daley, Miles Gosse, and Tracey Norman playing at the Al Green Theatre at the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival.
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Having loved (and cried during) The Nance on Broadway, I felt somewhat prepared to love (and cry over) The Pansy Craze: A New Musical, showing at the Randolph Theatre as part of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival. The shows both throw the Gay Wayback Machine back to a liminal time in queerness, exploring a shimmering moment in history when gender-independence was briefly allowable in public before law-enforcement clamped its unforgiving jaws back down. I did love The Pansy Craze: A New Musical, and I did cry, and I am keen indeed to see how this show progresses.
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His show may be called Jem Rolls: I, IDIOT, but Fringe star Jem Rolls certainly doesn’t play the fool in his solo show at the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival.
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Dead for a Ducat by Reign or Shine Productions at the Toronto Fringe Festival is a mash up of a classic film noir detective story and Hamlet. I like film noir. I like Shakespeare. And I definitely liked Dead for a Ducat. It’s an ingenious new take on a classic tale. Continue reading Dead for a Ducat (Reign or Shine Productions) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
The Girl in the Photograph, written by Joel Pettigrew and directed by Victoria Urquhart playing as part of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival, is all too relatable. Too almost uncomfortably relatable, which I guess is why this play hits so many notes, both pleasant and not so much, and why it will stay and haunt me for a very long time. This is a tale of forbidden attraction — she’s 14 and he’s older, charismatic and dangerously slick. He knows exactly what to say at any given time to coerce, manipulate and charm his way into whoever he wants.
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