Andrew Chapman and Ryan Turner‘s False East is a comedy based on Sam Shepard‘s True West, that relocates the story to southern Ontario. You can see it playing at St. Vladimir’s Institute as part of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival, and it is a goofy hell of a show. Continue reading False East (Chapman and Turner Prod.) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
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Be a Good Girl (Wandering Well Productions) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
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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Nullius in Verba (Rebel Dance Theatre) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
Do you like contemporary dance? Do you like expressive movement? I enjoyed the dynamic movement in Nullius in Verba: A Double Bill Dance Performance the most. It is playing at the Al Green Theatre as part of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Festival. Continue reading Nullius in Verba (Rebel Dance Theatre) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
Flute Loops (Devon More Music) 2018 Toronto Fringe Review
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
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.