her., the creation of writer and performer Deborah Shaw and director David Agro (zippysaid productions), is now playing at the 2018 Toronto Fringe.
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The Brothers Gentle produced by SockMonkey playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival is a poignant and often hilarious exploration of brotherhood, fathers and sexuality that is a welcome addition to this year’s festival.

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Different people have different habits, vices even, and judging by the contents of many bookstores’ self-help sections, everyone has at least one. Hooked,  by Pepper Dance Projects, running at the Factory Theatre Mainspace as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival‘s slate of dance shows, imagines what might happen if one day everyone was forced to simply stop. The answer that Hooked provides, through its talented cast and its careful narrative, is proof of the ability of dance to tell moving stories.

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Here Me : a play on the homonym hear/here. A comment on how performer Amelia Nyla Jakaša wants your attention. A focus on the audience being present in the room. This essentially wordless show about communication and connection produced by aestrider is one of the most unique experiences you’ll have at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival.

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One for One Collective presents Dora-nominated playwright Michael Ross Albert’s two-handed thriller Anywhere at the Toronto Fringe Festival. A civilized business relationship  turns into a tense struggle as two women face-off at an AirBnB.  Continue reading Anywhere (One Four One Collective) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review →