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Be a Good Girl (Wandering Well Productions) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review

Poster for Be a Good Girl

Be a Good Girl is a semi-comic musical play by Adina Katz and Wandering Well Productions. It is performing for the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival at the Annex Theatre.

This piece makes use of musical numbers, storytelling, film, and satire to talk about Katz‘ experience with sexual assault, as well as broader problems about the expectations placed on women in society. She tells her own story in detail. Despite the otherwise light and funny tone, it a vulnerable show.

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Flute Loops (Devon More Music) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review

Devon More in Flute Loops

Um, please go see Devon More‘s Flute Loops.

It is an amazingly good music-based play running at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse for the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival.

Here is a list of some of the best things this show features:

  • Music made on the spot with live sampling/playback, improvising with the audience and building on just about anything we do or don’t do
  • General physics nerd stuff combined with music nerd stuff (especially a treat for me!!)
  • A delightfully charmingly awkward and funny character who uses well-placed puns

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Always Unique, Totally Interesting, Sometimes Mysterious (Alyson Parovel Productions) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review

Alyson Parovel in Always Unique, Totally Interesting, Sometimes Mysterious

Always Unique, Totally Interesting, Sometimes Mysterious is an hour one-woman play written, created and performed by Alyson Parovel for the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival playing at the Solo Room at Tarragon Theatre. It looks at how autism spectrum disorder can shape relationships, and open and necessitate unique avenues of communication.

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