In Ashley with a “Y (at the Toronto Fringe Festival), Second City vet Ashley Botting invents around 10 songs on the spot, drawing topics from a punchbowl and then improvising with a live pianist (Scott White).
It’s an ambitious exercise, and the thing about Botting is that she’s so damned charming and #Relatable that I would forgive her almost any sin. Luckily, I don’t have to.
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Seeing a show like BikeFace at the Toronto Fringe Festival 2018 is rare. A show where the audience is engaged and excited, the performer is enthusiastic and charming, and the crowd walks out ready to take on the world. A show like Trailblazing Ladies‘ BikeFace is very rare, indeed.
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A commentary on workplace sexual politics, Hamburger started its life as a first draft created by Ciaran Myers at the Stratford Festival’s Playwrights Retreat. Now it is being produced by Informal Upright Theatre Collective and playing at The Hideout as part of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival.
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Tinder On The Toilet And Other Bad Ideas, produced by NOTORIOUS and playing at Toronto Fringe is what you get when you mash together a sketch comedy show with a rap concert. The rhyming is sick, the beats are tight and the jokes are totally “off the chain” hilarious.
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The Cardboard Countess by urbanspine (playing at the Toronto Fringe Festival) addresses issues of teen depression, homelessness, bullying, and environmental decay. Somehow the play manages to be beautiful and hopeful, in spite of its heavy subject matter. Continue reading The Cardboard Countess (urbanspine) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review